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Category: cyberanthropology

08/07/06

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

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

"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

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

"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

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 »

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