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 »
Category: "cyberanthropology"
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 »
by lorenz on Nov 30, 2005 in corporate & business anthropology, fieldwork / methods, cyberanthropology, internet
"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 »
by lorenz on Oct 26, 2005 in Us and Them, fieldwork / methods, journal articles / papers, cyberanthropology, internet
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 »
Norwegian anthropologist Christian Stokke has published his thesis "Unlearning White Superiority. Consciousness-raising on an online Rastafari Reasoning Forum" in full length. From his introduction:
The ensuing interracial dialogues on racism are the… more »
by lorenz on May 23, 2005 in culture traditions, Pacific Oceania, fieldwork / methods, journal articles / papers, cyberanthropology, internet
Signs of activity at AnthroGlobe - one of the eldest anthropology web journals. Two new texts and they seem to work with the site layout, it seems:
Carmen Petrosian-Husa: Powerful & Powerless: The Rei Metau on the Outer Islands of Yap
Since 1… more »
Anthropologist Kerim Friedman, Keywords
Last year, when I was offered the opportunity to teach a course on anthropology and photography at Haverford College, I immediately knew I wanted to do something with Flickr. I have to admit that it was exhausti… more »
Alexander Knorr, Xirdalium
Oftentimes there is a confusion about what anthropological 'fieldwork' actually is. One aim of my project is to transpose anthropology's rich and powerful methodology to the terra nova online: thick participation plus its we… more »
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