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 »
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by lorenz on May 21, 2008 in Us and Them, media, youth, journal articles / papers, cyberanthropology, internet, websites • 1 comment »
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 »
by lorenz on Apr 4, 2008 in fieldwork / methods, persons and theories, youth, journal articles / papers • 2 comments »
Has Anthropology News gone open-access? 14 articles of the new issue are online. Anthropology News examines new ways of thinking about childhood and children's roles and experiences. Methodological challenges of anthropological work with and of children… more »
by lorenz on Apr 3, 2008 in Europe, applied anthropology, fieldwork / methods, youth, journal articles / papers
How can anthropology contribute to understanding and fighting inequality? The new issue of Anthropology Matters brings together articles from the first British postgraduate MA in Applied Anthropology and Community and Youth Work. Most of the students ar… more »
He's not an aboriginal Australian. Nevertheless he has to learn the local indigenous language. He and many other children say it's fun. Teachers, parents and linguists say it is improving self-esteem, literacy and school attendance, rescuing indigenous l… more »
by lorenz on Oct 28, 2007 in politics, Latin- and Central America, globalisation, poverty, persons and theories, youth • 2 comments »
There are many campaigns against child labour. But anthropologist Thomas Offit also views child labour as a chance for children to improve and take control of their lives. In an interview with The Lariat Online (Baylor University) he criticizes ethnocent… more »
When the sun has set in Guinea, one of the world's poorest nations, and the floodlights come on at Gbessia International Airport, the parking lot begins to fill with children. It is among the only places where they can count on finding the lights on. Th… more »
by lorenz on Jan 21, 2007 in religion cosmology, Us and Them, Europe, globalisation, fieldwork / methods, migration, youth, journal articles / papers
Young muslims are moving from an Islam based on the culture of their homeland to an increasingly transnationally embedded Islam of Muslims from many different countries and cultures. That's one of the findings in the doctoral thesis by Norwegian anthrop… more »
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