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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 »
17/11/09
16:37:43, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), internet, websites Looking back at 10 years Public Anthropology online
What is public anthropology? Already in 1999, when he had started his Ph.D project, Martijn de Koning has made his first anthropology website. In a very interesting blog post with many links, he is looking back at 10 years public anthropology online:… more »
05/11/09
04:10:45, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), University / Academia, internet, ethics Anthropologists ignore Open Access Week - a report from Wellington
What's the point of science if it's not publicly accessible? Two weeks ago, the first global Open Access Week was organized. Masters' student in anthropology Karstein Noremark has written a report for antropologi.info about the Open Access Week at Victor… more »
22/10/09
14:46:41, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), music, Visual Anthropology, internet Interview: Meet Dai Cooper from The Anthropology Song!
Dai Cooper's Anthropology Song has fascinated people all over the world. Around 10 000 people have seen the video on YouTube so far, it was sent around via facebook, twitter, mailing lists, and was already shown in many anthropology classes. Maybe nobody… more »
19/10/09
19:42:23, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), Visual Anthropology, internet The Anthropology Song!
(via facebook and Savage Minds) What is Anthropology? What is it about? Forget about all definitions, here is the Anthropology Song by Dai Cooper:[video:youtube:LHv6rw6wxJY] 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 »
16/09/09
00:24:34, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), University / Academia, internet Selv-archiving repositories: Is ResearchGate the solution?
Today, ResearchGATE has launched a new Self-Archiving Repository. "This will make full-text articles available to the public, for free - the first application of its kind worldwide", ResearchGate claims in their press release:Currently, there is no w… more »
06/09/09
23:00:26, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, music, history, internet, websites Oral history, folk music and more: British Library puts vast sound archive online
Wow! Overwhelming! The British Library has made more than 23 000 sound recordings from all over the world freely available to everyone at http://sounds.bl.uk
"World and traditional music", "oral history", "accents and dialects", "environment and natu… more »
09/08/09
13:56:46, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), internet, websites, internal notes 5 years antropologi.info
It's hard to believe that I have been running this blog already for around five years. It was in June 2004, I bought the domain antropologi.info and on the 7th of July 2004, the English blog was launched by anthropologist Simon Roberts from Ideas Bazaar… 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 »
02/01/09
00:26:42, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), internet, websites The best of anthropology blogging 2008
What has happened on anthropology blogs during the last year? The group blog Neuroanthropology has posted Round Up of the Best of Anthro 2008 and The “Best of Anthro 2008″ Prizes.
Most anthropology blogs have participated, so these two posts pr… 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 »
02:08:30, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), internet antropologi.info voted nr 2 in Savage Minds awards
What are the best anthropology websites? Last night, at the annual meeting of the American Anthropology Association in San Francisco, the Savage Minds Awards were handed out. In the category "Most excellent blog", antropologi.info was voted second best,… more »
15/11/08
12:30:06, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), internet Vote for the best anthropology blog and journal!
The voting has begun - the winners will be announced at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. antropologi.info is one of seven blogs that were nominated for the Most Excellent Anthropology Blog category (currently number two beh… 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
20:22:56, by Lorenz . Categories: corporate & business anthropology, Us and Them, media, youth, internet How to get more young readers? Associated Press turns to anthropologists
The number of young newspaper readers is declining. In order to better understand the behaviors of young readers, Associated Press commissioned a team of anthropologists to follow 18 young individuals around the world and examine their media habits, the… more »
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 »
13/04/08
01:34:11, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, corporate & business anthropology, design anthropology, Us and Them, applied anthropology, anthropology (general), media, internet Why the head of IT should be an anthropologist
(via Bits and Bytes) The true value of IT will come not from information or technology per se but from the social side. Therefore anthropologists and other social scientists will become more important to Information Technology (IT) Departments than IT it… 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 »
09/03/08
20:00:14, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia, internet Ethnographic research: Why care about plagiarism?
Educators complain about plagiarism. But it is not principally because material is too readily available that students copy and paste material from the internet to their papers. It's because new forms of authorships are emerging online, anthropologist Su… more »
05/03/08
16:52:25, by Lorenz . Categories: Asia, fieldwork / methods, Visual Anthropology, internet, websites "Visual Anthropology of Japan" and more new blogs
Visual Anthropology of Japan" is the name of the blog by anthropologist Steven Fedorowicz (Kansai Gaidai University). All of his students in his class with the same name are required to blog. He links to more than a dozen student blogs.
He explains:… 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 »
22/02/08
Professor lets students blog their field experiences: More than 20 new blogs online!
Anthropology professor Joe Rubenstein has started an interesting project: Students in his course "Field Methods" are expected to blog their field experiences (it seems). Their research topic is teens and adolescence.
"The purpose of writing on our bl… 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 »
01:49:13, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), media, internet More Podcasts by the Society for Applied Anthropology
Last year's podcasts from the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) have received much attention. This year they are continuing the project, Jen Cardew writes on the SfAA-Podcast Blog. She is also looking for six team members who… more »
10/12/07
01:01:49, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, media, internet, websites, ethics New media and anthropology - AAA meeting part III
While new media can foster participatory ethnography and enhance access, one also has to reflect on the implications of the Internet’s openness and availability. This was one of the lessons of a session at the annual meeting of the American Anthropologic… 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 »
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