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 »
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by lorenz on Jan 14, 2008 in technology, gender, Northern America, media, cyberanthropology, internet • 4 comments »
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 »
by lorenz on Jan 14, 2008 in technology, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), media, internet
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 »
by lorenz on Dec 10, 2007 in technology, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, media, internet, websites, ethics • 1 comment »
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 »
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 »
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 »
by lorenz on Apr 18, 2007 in culture traditions, Us and Them, anthropology (general), media • 1 comment »
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 »
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 »
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