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Category: cyberanthropology
23/12/09
02:18:18, by Lorenz 
. Categories: technology, gift economy gift giving, applied anthropology, media, journal articles / papers, cyberanthropology, internet Exploring the honor culture of social media
How can businesses profit from social media? How does social media challenge what is regarded as "value" in the business world? Anthropologist Lene Pettersen discusses these and other questions in her paper "The impact of social media for business".
L… more »
12/10/09
Digital Anthropology Report: Attitudes to technology = basis of future class divides
How do people in Britain use the internet? How do they behave online? The new Digital Anthropology Report. The Six Tribes of Homo Digitalis gives some answers.
The British communication company Talk Talk sent researchers from the University of Kent i… more »
21/01/09
20:13:31, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, Northern America, youth, journal articles / papers, cyberanthropology, internet Dissertation: Why kids embrace Facebook and MySpace
After 30 months ethnographic fieldwork on Facebook, MySpace and other social networking sites, danah boyd has finally completed her PhD-thesis and put it online. Although she is no anthropologist, she seems to have worked like an anthropologist. Her thes… more »
24/11/08
03:39:07, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, development empowerment, media, youth, journal articles / papers, cyberanthropology, internet Ethnographic Study: Social Websites Important For Childhood Development
Many adults worry that children are wasting time online, texting, or playing video games. In the first in-depth ethnographic study of its kind, researchers of the Digital Youth Project found that the digital world is creating new opportunities for youth… more »
07/06/08
11:46:30, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, gift economy gift giving, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, books, cyberanthropology, internet, websites Online: New book on the cultural significance of Free Software
How has Free Software transformed not only software, but also music, film, science, and education? Anthropologist and Savage Minds blogger Christopher M. Kelty explores this question in his new book "Two bits" that now is "available for purchase, for do… more »
21/05/08
11:17:26, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, media, youth, journal articles / papers, cyberanthropology, internet, websites Ethnographic study: Social network sites are "virtual campfires"
After five years participant observation, anthropologist Jenny Ryan has published her masters' thesis about the social network sites Facebook, My Space and Tribe.net. She created a beautiful web version of her thesis at http://www.thevirtualcampfire.org/… more »
19/05/08
13:23:22, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), media, journal articles / papers, cyberanthropology, internet Anthropology blogs more interesting than journals?
Have anthropology journals ignored students? Is this one of the reasons for the popularity of anthropology blogs? Anthropology journals are not well known among students, Owen Wiltshire writes in his class assignment Why do anthropologists blog? A mini… more »
30/03/08
Via YouTube: Anthropology students' work draws more than a million viewers
Many assignments go no farther than between the student completing it and the professor grading it. But assignments in Michael Wesch's anthropology classes at Kansas State University have been seen around the world and by as many as 1.5 million other peo… more »
15:51:51, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, development empowerment, fieldwork / methods, Native American, Caribbean, journal articles / papers, cyberanthropology, internet, websites Another way of doing fieldwork: Developing websites with your informants!
Indigenous communities have embraced the internet from early on. The website of the Oneida Indian Nation was set up before the website for the White House. Anthropologist Maximilian C. Forte has developped several websites in collaboration with indigenou… more »
26/02/08
15:15:05, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, fieldwork / methods, cyberanthropology, University / Academia, internet, websites Plans to study anthropological online communities and Open Access movement
Anthropology of anthropology: How do anthropologists form online communities? How are open access publishing and other developments that have sprung up online changing community boundaries? Soon, an anthropologist will do fieldwork among us online anthro… more »
14/01/08
02:45:47, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, gender, Northern America, media, cyberanthropology, internet Anthropological research: Online dating as disappointing as the real-life dating scene
Sounds familiar: People on online dating sites are experiencing frustration because it does seem that the internet in many ways is just the same old bar scene. This is one of the findings of research by anthropologist Susan E. Frohlick. She is conductin… more »
03/12/07
18:47:19, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, journal articles / papers, cyberanthropology, internet, websites, interdisciplinary Now open access to 39 years of the journal Folklore Forum
Folklore Forum, a journal that is produced by graduate students at the Folklore and Ethnomusicology Department of Indiana University, has gone Open Access. From now on, 39 years of scholarship, debate, and exchange of ideas are freely accessible for ever… more »
07/09/07
13:00:08, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, gift economy gift giving, Us and Them, journal articles / papers, cyberanthropology, internet, cosmopolitanism Why were they doing this work just to give it away for free? Thesis on Ubuntu Linux hackers
It all started when anthropologist Andreas Lloyd (University of Copenhagen) was browsing on the Internet looking for a new laptop computer and ended up installing the free Windows alternative Linux. Two years later, he finished his master thesis "A syst… more »
17/06/07
Cyberanthropology: "Second Life is their only chance to participate in religious rituals"
You can light virtual candles for Shabbat, teleport to a Buddhist temple or consult the oracle for some divine guidance. In Second Life, an online virtual universe with 3.7 million users, religious diversity and participation have skyrocketed. For some… more »
19/02/07
19:25:15, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, Us and Them, globalisation, anthropology (general), cyberanthropology, internet Interview with Michael Wesch: How collaborative technologies change scholarship
(via del.icio.us) After his video about collaborative tools on the web (like blogs, wikis etc), Michael Wesch has become the most talked about anthropologist on the internet. In an interview with John Battelle's Searchblog, Wesch explains his interest in… more »
01/12/06
14:12:26, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, fieldwork / methods, cyberanthropology Open Source Fieldwork! Show how you work!
Andreas Lloyd from the University of Copenhagen extends our notion of Open Access Anthropology and writes:
Now that I’ve officially finished my fieldwork, and with all the talk going on about Open Access Anthropology, I thought I’d try my own little… more »
26/11/06
"YouTube clips = everyday ethnography"
To decipher consumers' needs, corporate ethnographers review countless Youtube clips and read scads of blogs. "Viewing a film about the Yanomamo tribe in the Amazon rain forest in Anthropology 101 is like seeing a Youtube clip where a little kid in Peori… more »
31/10/06
00:00:58, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, Asia, globalisation, fieldwork / methods, migration, cyberanthropology, internet Second generation migrants blog more about race and ethnicity
Anthropologist Jesse de Leon shares some of his results from his field work among Filipino bloggers and their expression of Filipino identity on blogs.
He found five major categories of Filipino bloggers: Cosmopolitans, the Philippine Elite, Im/migra… more »
27/09/06
Now online: EASA-conference papers on media anthropology
(via Xirdalium) Understanding Media Practices was the name of one of the numerous workshops at the conference Europe and the World by the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA).
Some papers are now freely available:
The online nomad… more »
27/08/06
22:13:37, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, corporate & business anthropology, applied anthropology, cyberanthropology, internet Microsoft anthropologist: Let people be online at work or risk losing stuff!
Anne Kirah, a senior Microsoft anthropologist, says IT staff believe they’re supporting workplace productivity by limiting private use of the Net. But they may be doing the opposite. Companies that filter Internet access or block IM communications are go… more »
19/07/06
23:58:24, by Lorenz . Categories: corporate & business anthropology, youth, cyberanthropology, internet E-mail has become the new snail mail - Text Messaging on Rise
E-mail is so last millennium. Young people see it as a good way to reach an elder - a parent, teacher or a boss - or to receive an attached file. But email is increasingly losing favor to instant and text messaging, according to an ap-article:
Much li… more »
08/07/06
11:22:24, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, globalisation, fieldwork / methods, Northern America, migration, anthropology (general), cyberanthropology, internet, websites New blog: Sarapen. Online anthropology on Filipino bloggers
(via Livejournal Anthropology Community) Jesse de Leon, Master’s student in Social Anthropology, has started blogging on his research on Filipino bloggers - a very interesting blog about migration, transnationalism, identity and internet research. In hi… more »
14/06/06
01:00:28 pm, by Denise Carter . Categories: anthropology (general), cyberanthropology, GUEST BLOGGING Laughing in Cyberspace…or should I say LOL?
Apologies for the delay since my last post but I have started a new job at the Cyberspace Research Unit at the University of Central Lancashire and that has been a bit hectic – I am now living in Lincolnshire, working in Preston and Lodging in Liverpool.… more »
03/06/06
03:22:37, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, Africa, journal articles / papers, cyberanthropology, internet "Play on sterotypical understandings of Africa" - Anthropologist analyses Nigerian scam emails
Email scams constitute the third largest industry in Nigeria, after oil and drugs. These email-scammers succeed because they play on stereotypical understandings of Africa, anthropologist Elina Hartikainen concludes in paper, that she presented at a conf… more »
25/05/06
10:04:18 am, by Denise Carter . Categories: technology, anthropology (general), media, cyberanthropology, internet, GUEST BLOGGING The Birth of a Cyberethnographer: The MU5 is to Blame
In 1974, fascinated, I pressed my nose to the window at UMIST and watched huge tapes turning on large metal boxes that filled the ground floor of the building – yes – it was that big! Operators and programmers were hurrying around wearing white lab coats… more »
19/04/06
Deep Thoughts - new anthropology blog by Denise Carter
Is there life after a PhD? and Internet Nicknames – what’s in a name? are the titles of the first entries in a new anthropology blog by Denise Carter.
She has recently completed her PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of Hull, UK. Many might… more »
07/02/06
23:20:48, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, Asia, Northern America, cyberanthropology, art, internet "A unique art form" - Anthropological Research on Anime
An old drawing style in Japan is being reintroduced as new in the United States, and USC anthropology research scientist Mizuko Ito presented the development of Anime at the UCLA Faculty Center, UCLA University writes on their homepage. Academics should… more »
16/01/06
Virtual Ethnographer’s Toolkit: Invitation to a software fantasy
Cyber Ethnography both resembels and differs from traditional fieldwork. Livejournal user closedistances is beginning his /her dissertation research and designs the (imagined) ideal software tool for cyberanthropologists:
"I have found myself wishing… more »
30/11/05
23:09:34, by Lorenz . Categories: corporate & business anthropology, fieldwork / methods, cyberanthropology, internet Virtual Armchair Anthropology: Trend Watching Fieldwork Online
"I predict that we will slowly see the return of the “armchair anthropologists” Malinowski so famously dethroned." The reason: "The web offers a tremendous, and ever growing database of lived experience", Kerim Friedman wrote in an earlier post on Savage… more »
26/10/05
20:12:29, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, fieldwork / methods, journal articles / papers, cyberanthropology, internet Ethnographic research on Friendster's online communities
In her most recent post, Danah Boyd gives us a round-up of her publications on Friendster, a popular social networking service where she has conducted ethnographic research. Among others, she studied how people publicly perform their social relations onl… more »
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