A quick note: Much praise for the Reporters Without Borders "Handbook for bloggers" on the GlobalVoices-website. Maybe it will be useful for academics as well?
"It is the first truly useful book I’ve seen aimed at the kinds of bloggers featured here a… more »
Category: "internet"
by lorenz on Aug 17, 2005 in Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), University / Academia, internet • 2 comments »
More and more anthropologists have started blogging and discussing their research interests with a wider audience. They use the internet as a library, as a tool for learning and teaching, as a space where they conduct fieldwork. They exchange knowledge,… 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 »
Ethan Zuckerman, Global Voices
The BBC has a long tradition of encouraging readers and listeners of their Africa service to talk about their views of the continent. BBC is going a step further, looking for people with interesting stories to tell, armi… more »
by lorenz on Aug 6, 2005 in indigenous people / minorities, technology, development empowerment, Regions, media, journal articles / papers, internet • 1 comment »
(via Putting People First) Worldchanging has "tracked projects that use new technologies to empower indigenous cultural survival -- from digital applications using Inuktitut, the Inuit native language, to the Aboriginal Mapping Project, which harnesses t… more »
(via Fieldnotes): Ethnomusicologist Aaron Fox has set up a website and blog as an "extension of the book": "I'm not going to republish the book on the site, but the book deals so much with sound that I had to make it possible for people to hear the music… more »
Savage Minds has recently pointed to the blog by the Anthropology librarian Cynthia Tysick, University at Buffalo, New York. She seems to be surfing alot and lists a lot of useful links. Some of her recent entries are Introduction to Indigenous Peoples a… more »
by lorenz on Jun 3, 2005 in politics, technology, development empowerment, media, Middle East, internet
Hadi Ansari, OhmyNews International
Only four years have passed since Hossein Derakhshan, Iran's leading blogger and Internet activist, published a guide to making a weblog in Persian. Now the influence of weblogs has spread to every aspect of Iranian… more »
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