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Category: technology
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 »
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 »
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 »
27/11/08
03:16:54, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, Africa, development empowerment, gender, books, fieldwork / methods How electricity changes daily life in Zanzibar - Interview with anthropologist Tanja Winther
How does everyday life change when electricity becomes available to people in a village in Zanzibar, East Africa, for the first time? Anthropologist Tanja Winther answers this question in her new book The Impact of Electricity. Development, Desires and D… 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 »
13/08/08
Development anthropology via the mobile phone
With mobile banking taking off around much of the developing world, how long will it be before international aid is delivered electronically, asks anthropologist Ken Banks in PC World.
Banks is the founder of kiwanja, an organisation, that helps non… more »
06/07/08
Fieldwork reveals how slot machines are exploiting people
In November, a referendum on the legalizing of slot machines in Maryland will be held. In the Washington Post, anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll tells us how slot machines are exploiting people.
Natasha Dow Schüll has been on fieldwork in Las Vegas a… more »
28/06/08
17:17:54, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, corporate & business anthropology, design anthropology, applied anthropology Motorola anthropologists develop social TV
Some years ago, the researchers observed how people talked on the phone while watching the same TV show. Now Motorola-anthropologist Crysta Metcalf and her team are designing a Social TV, the Chicago Tribune reports.
The researchers designed a prototy… 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
15/11/07
03:08:50, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, corporate & business anthropology, design anthropology, applied anthropology How anthropological research can reduce the paper usage in offices
Another example of anthropologists in product development: As a consequence of anthropological research, Xerox is developing a new kind of paper where the printed information simply disappears within about 16 hours, allowing the paper to be reused.
W… more »
06/11/07
02:18:16, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, religion cosmology, culture traditions, Us and Them, Middle East Kosher cell phones, kosher bus routes and kosher clothing: Israel's Ultra-Orthodox economy
For Jews, not only food needs to be kosher, the New York Times explains in an interesting article about Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox.
There are even kosher mobile phones. You cannot send text messages with them, take photographs or connect to the Internet… more »
28/10/07
Anthropologist examines influence of robots in Japan
At home, robots are about to replace the role of the grandmother and in the industrial sector, robots are more popular than foreign laborers according to anthropologist Jennifer Robertson. Robertson is researching on the effects of robots on Japanese soc… more »
30/09/07
12:53:48, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, gender, persons and theories, journal articles / papers, websites Sexual anthropologist explains how technology changes dating, love and relationships
Bella Ellwood-Clayton is sexual anthropologist. As we read in the Washington Post, Bella Ellwood-Clayton has studied texting and dating in the Philippines. On her website you can download the texts Desire and loathing in the cyber Philippines and Unfai… 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 »
28/08/07
00:37:45, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, culture traditions, language, Native American, Arctic / Northern Regions, internet, websites New website helps save Kenai Peoples language (Alaska)
Their language is nearly dead. Maybe a new website can revitalize Kahtnuht'ana Qenaga: The Kenai Peoples Language in Alaska? For more than two years, the two anthropologists Alan Boraas and Michael Christian have taken pictures, navigated through HTML an… more »
01/08/07
02:42:29, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, development empowerment, applied anthropology, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, internet Ethnographic reports about the uses of ICT in low-income communities
Culture Matters points to "exciting" working papers by the Information Society Research Group about the social and economic benefits of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in low-income communities in Jamaica, India, South Africa and Ghana: "T… more »
02/07/07
16:27:30, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, corporate & business anthropology, design anthropology Timo Veikkola - The Anthropologist as Future Specialist
Things are changing: See how an anthropologist is introduced in this story: "As many anthropologists these days he holds a strategic position inside a global corporation." Juliana Xavier writes about Timo Veikkola - anthropologist at Nokia. His jobtitle:… more »
How to save Tibetan folk songs? Put them online!
More and more Tibetan folk songs are disappearing. Led by anthropology professor Gerald Roche, the Tibetan Endangered Music Project (TEMP) uses digital media to capture tunes that are being lost. The volunteer-run program aims to put all the digital song… more »
17/06/07
Cyberanthropology: "Second Life is their only chance to participate in religious rituals"
You can light virtual candles for Shabbat, teleport to a Buddhist temple or consult the oracle for some divine guidance. In Second Life, an online virtual universe with 3.7 million users, religious diversity and participation have skyrocketed. For some… more »
28/02/07
12:36:22, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, culture traditions, aboriginees, fieldwork / methods, music "A new approach to the collection of traditional Aboriginal music"
The days of anthropologists taking recordings away to Canberra where they might as well be lost to the community forever, are now gone according to ABC Radio (Australia) in a story about the National Recording Project. Its aim is to document the traditio… more »
19/02/07
19:25:15, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, Us and Them, globalisation, anthropology (general), cyberanthropology, internet Interview with Michael Wesch: How collaborative technologies change scholarship
(via del.icio.us) After his video about collaborative tools on the web (like blogs, wikis etc), Michael Wesch has become the most talked about anthropologist on the internet. In an interview with John Battelle's Searchblog, Wesch explains his interest in… 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 »
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