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V Latin American Conference of Digital Anthropology: Navigating the Everyday 

The Latin American Network of Digital Anthropology is a space where Latin American students, professionals, and researchers from diverse disciplines converge, addressing the digital world as an object, context, ethical-methodological approach, and/or a means of scientific dissemination. On this occasion, it convenes the V Latin American Conference of Digital Anthropology: "Navigating the Everyday Life," which will be held virtually on December 3, 4, and 5, 2025.

At #ELAD 2025, we question the place of the digital world in the everyday, and the place of the everyday in the digital world. We begin with the fishing net (atarraya, esparavel) as a metaphor for considering current times: that vast algorithmic network that enfolds us, and sometimes traps us, but at the same time we contribute to weave, manipulating it artisanally in our daily practices. We aim to collectively consider the environment of technologies, platforms, and devices that has come to constitute "the mundane." We seek to address it in its various facets, from what is visible on and through screens, breaking down the boundaries between public and private spaces (artificial intelligence, datafication, influencerization, platformization), to what remains hidden or underground (internet infrastructures, hacking, the deep web). At the same time, we invite reflection on the diverse uses, practices, and discourses of those embedded in this digital fabric, which they contribute to producing, sustaining, and even altering in everyday life. These cultural dimensions are expressed through our daily habits, where work, caregiving, affection, bodies, and community come into play. Multiple elements that flow between the dominant, the residual, and the emerging, in a global hegemonic environment that, nevertheless, is situated in heterogeneous local contexts, crisscrossed by profound inequalities. We seek to consolidate a space for critical, interdisciplinary, and situated dialogue that allows for a collaborative reflection on how digitality structures and impacts everyday life in Latin America, and at the same time how this everyday life redefines the digital.

The event will include panel discussions anchored in various thematic areas, inviting the presentation of academic and applied works, as well as work experiences and scientific dissemination (completed or in progress) linked to communities, territories, and contemporary visual culture. In addition, it will feature workshops and keynote addresses with leading professionals and researchers in anthropology and other social and humanistic disciplines. Participation as an attendee or exhibitor is free.

Thematic Axes 

1. Materialities, Media, and Infrastructures. This axis addresses research on specific technologies where the digital world becomes an object of study in itself. It covers work on the functioning of social networks, digital platforms, technological devices, video games, internet infrastructures, among others.

2. Ethical and Methodological Perspectives. This axis delves into ethnographic discussions, experiences, and proposals regarding the application of ethical and methodological approaches with digital perspectives. It includes reflections on the use of computational techniques and tools from other disciplines for the study of technology.

3. Digital, Digitized, and Transformed Contexts. This axis encompasses research where technology intersects with the sociocultural context, framing the emergence of both new and digitally transformed phenomena.

4. Identities, Subjectivities, and Communities. This axis delves into how individuals and groups that coexist in digital environments create forms of expression, connection, and collaboration that transcend screens. It covers studies on users of social media, digital platforms, and video games, among others.

5. Scientific communication and organization through digital media. This axis focuses on individual and collective experiences using digital technologies for scientific dissemination and the organization of events where they have played a central role.

Schedule

Call for Papers and Workshops: August 11–September 12.

Review of Received Papers and Workshops: September–October 2025.

Announcement of Accepted Papers: October 2025.

Registration for Attendees: November 10, 2025.

Registration for Workshops: November 21.

Program Launch: November 19.

Conference: December 3–5.

Book of Abstracts: January 2026.

Organizing Committe

Alice Roberte  (@ ) - - Universidade de Brasília, UnB , Brasil.

Ana Belén Bello (@) - - Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela.

Candela Sorrentino Puy (@) - Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina.

Juan Forero Duarte (@) - Universidad de Los Andes/University College London, Colombia.

Rodrigo Manrique (@) - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Juan Pablo Baquero (@) - Universidad Externado de Colombia, Colombia.