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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 »

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 »

David Zeitlyn, University of Kent at Canterbury Building on Eric Raymond’s work this article discusses the motivation and rewards that lead some software engineers to participate in the open source movement. It is suggested that software engineers in… more »

Alireza Doostdar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, American Anthropologist This article is an ethnographic study of Persian-language weblogs (blogs), focusing on a divisive argument among Iranian bloggers that came to be known as… more »

Alexander Knorr, xirdal.lmu.de (University of Munich, Germany) 'Maxmod' is an open-research-project in sociocultural anthropology. At its core stands long-lasting 'thick participation' in an online-community. The chosen community condensates around th… more »