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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 »
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