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23/12/09
20:56:14, by Lorenz 
. Categories: books, anthropology (general), media, history, Visual Anthropology Book review: Photography, Anthropology and History (Part I)
When filming people became possible, anthropologists began to drift away from it. Though better off than at the beginning of the 20th century, the visual anthropology today is still perceived as a marginal discipline, Tessa Valo writes in the first part… more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
25/09/08
20:54:49, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Latin- and Central America, Native American, media In Norwegian TV: Indian tribe paid to go naked to appear more primitive
(Norwegian version) In the reality program «Den store reisen» (Ticket to the tribes), a Norwegian family moved in with Waorani-indians in Banemo, Ecuador. The TV-pictures show people who go naked and live "primitively". What the TVstation NRK fails to me… more »
03/07/08
01:38:26, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Native American, media "Tribal wives" - Pseudo-anthropology by BBC?
The BBC has sent six British women to be "second wives" to so-called "tribesmen" in - according to the BBC "some of the world's most remote communities". "Any anthropologist feels pleased when the hidden peoples of the world get a chance to appear on tel… more »
04/06/08
02:26:23, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Latin- and Central America, globalisation, Native American, media The Double Standards of the "Uncontacted Tribes" Circus
The story of the so-called "uncontacted tribes" in the Amazon has made its way around the world (even to Norway!). At the same time, there is a complete lack of interest in the story of indigenous people being publicly humiliated in Bolivia, the CultureM… 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 »
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 »
27/08/07
John Postill on media anthropology and internet activism in Malaysia
Is Internet making any significant difference to the governance of an multiethnic middle-income suburb of Kuala Lumpur? Anthropologist John Postill has been on fieldwork there and sent me a working paper about his research Field theory and the political… more »
31/07/07
National Geographic Channel Is Going Anthropology?
Michelle Shildkret from the National Geographic Channel writes to me and informs about a new TV-program called taboo. This season of Taboo premieres Sunday, August 5th.
Taboo is an hour-long program that challenges the way we look at other cultures a… more »
18/04/07
The Dictionary of Man: Will Bob Geldof and the BBC reproduce racist anthropology?
Bob Geldof is to team up with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on a project to digitally catalogue all known human existence. They want to create the "largest ever living record" of films, photographs, anthropological histories, philosophies, t… more »
21/03/07
Mahmood Mamdani: "Peace cannot be built on humanitarian intervention"
While Iraq is seen as a place with messy politics, the Sudan is seen as a place without history and politics, and the Darfur-conflict as a case of "ethnic cleansing" and "genocide": "Arabs" are trying to eliminate "Africans". Why is the violence in Iraq… more »
10/12/06
Islam in Morocco: TV and Internet more important than mosques
Another example of how religious and cultural practices change: A soon to be released survey of religious practices in Morocco will show that the majority of Moroccans prefer to pray alone, and use audiovisual media and the internet for information on th… more »
08/10/06
Media: High school sports more popular than academics
A local news story that might say something more general about why anthropology isn't more present in the news? The results of University research between April 1 and June 30 show high school athletes often get 4 to 8 times the media coverage of an acade… more »
04/10/06
16:44:45, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, technology, religion cosmology, books, media, Middle East How Islamic cassette sermons challenge the moral and political landscape of the Middle East
The New York Times called it "Bin Laden's Low-Tech Weapon": Islamic cassette sermons are often associated with terrorism. They are rather a medium for democratic activism and ethical selv-improvement, anthropologist Charles Hirschkind argues in his new b… more »
27/09/06
Now online: EASA-conference papers on media anthropology
(via Xirdalium) Understanding Media Practices was the name of one of the numerous workshops at the conference Europe and the World by the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA).
Some papers are now freely available:
The online nomad… more »
26/08/06
Is this anthropology? African pygmies observe Britains in TV-show
TV-shows about people from remote places (the producers use the term "tribes") seem to have become quite popular. In a German TV-show, German families are sent into the African bush to live with "African tribes". Now, in Britain a new TV-show called "Rev… more »
25/05/06
10:04:18 am, by Denise Carter . Categories: technology, anthropology (general), media, cyberanthropology, internet, GUEST BLOGGING 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 »
08/02/06
01:45:18, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, religion cosmology, Us and Them, Europe, media, Middle East Anthropologist Pnina Werbner on Muhammad-cartoons: 'Satanic Verses Taught us a Lesson'
No newspaper in Britain has published the Muhammad-cartoons. "There are some lessons (the British) learned from "The Satanic Verses" that I'm afraid others in Europe still need to learn", anthropologist Pnina Werbner says in an interview with Der Spiegel… more »
06/08/05
18:25:23, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, technology, development empowerment, Regions, media, journal articles / papers, internet How Media and Digital Technology Empower Indigenous Survival
(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 »
03/06/05
00:57:51, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, technology, development empowerment, media, Middle East, internet Weblogs are sweeping the political and social landscape of Iran
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 »
29/05/05
19:33:51, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, gift economy gift giving, Us and Them, media, internet Tsunami and Internet: Social Tools - Ripples to Waves of the Future
Anthropologist Dina Mehta
Today, I believe that no crisis on this scale or magnitude will ever be handled again without sms, blogs, and wikis. That social tools will become a natural extension of rapid adaptation to chaotic conditions. While tradition… more »
11/05/05
12:38:52, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, Asia, fieldwork / methods, media, youth, journal articles / papers, internet Technologies of the Childhood Imagination- new text by anthropologist Mizuko Ito
Mizuku Ito has published a new text, a keynote speech she gave at “Digital Generations: Children, Young People and New Media”. Ito is involved in the new research project on "Digital Kids".
From her introduction:
"I've been trying to develop ways… more »
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