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blockquoteNo matter if you are studying an ancient race of people buried under years' worth of dirt or if you are analyzing the modern culture of New York City or Japan, these anthropology blogs have something to offer you. Enhance ...
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An Anthropologist Goes Techno
div style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"font size="3" face="Times New Roman"Below you can read the abstract of my paper to be presented at the /fontfont size="3" face="Times New Roman"a href="http://www.crossroads2010.org/index.html"8th International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference in Hong Kong, June 17-21, ...
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An Anthropologist Goes Techno
Here's some information on and links to two article mansucript I am proposing to be published. One is titled "a href="http://jyu.academia.edu/documents/0067/1734/Jukka_Jouhki__article_manuscript.pdf"A serious game: The imagery of advertisements in Poker Magazine Finland reflecting gender in online poker culture/a" and it is ...
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An Anthropologist Goes Techno
strongA few recent fruits of my academic tree./strongbr /br /stronga href="http://jyu.academia.edu/documents/0058/6099/Game_of_threat_and_money.doc"'Game of threat and money: Notes on the ethical discussion concerning state-run online poker service in Finland.'/a /strongProposed to be published in ema href="http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=164/"Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds/a/em 2 ...
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An Anthropologist Goes Techno
"Anthropologists have traditionally had a pretty wonkish reputation, earnestly taking field notes while interviewing a tribal chief or lecturing in some college classroom about the intricacies of indigenous clan-systems. If the Pentagon has its way, though, more anthropologists will exchange ...
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An Anthropologist Goes Techno
emAs requested, here is a more detailed description of our forthcoming project I wrote about /ema href="http://techantropology.blogspot.com/2009/11/information-about-our-next-project-on.html"emearlier/em/aem. It is edited from the main research plan of the project./embr /br /strongName of project:/strong Mobile technology, gender and development in Africa, India ...
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An Anthropologist Goes Techno
strongThe ethics of digital communication/strong are still incredibly strange at times, or what do you think about this case reported by a href="http://www.zdnet.co.uk/"ZDNet UK/anbsp;a few days ago?br /br /blockquotespan style="font-family: quot;Courier Newquot;, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"strongPub 'fined £8k' for Wi-Fi ...
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An Anthropologist Goes Techno
a href="http://www.aka.fi/en-gb/A/"The Academy of Finland/a has decided to fund our next four-year ICTD oriented research project lead by a href="https://www.jyu.fi/hum/laitokset/hie/en/staff/index_html/lstark"prof. Laura Stark/a and concentrating on mobile technology in developing countries of South Asia and Africa. As anthropologists and ethnologists are ...
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An Anthropologist Goes Techno
a href="http://oakhazelnut.makerlab.com/about/"Amber Case/a is a consultant and a PhD student of "a href="http://oakhazelnut.makerlab.com/2008/08/23/a-short-introduction-to-cyborg-anthropology/"cyborg anthropology/a". In this video from a href="http://www.gnomedex.com/"Gnomedex 9/a, a "Tech Conference of Inspiration and Influence" in Seattle earlier this fall, she talks about prosthetic culture. br /br ...
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An Anthropologist Goes Techno
div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"strong/strongbr //divdiv style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"strongEXAMINING TYPES OF DIGITAL USER CULTURES/strongbr /div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium ...
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An Anthropologist Goes Techno
strongCan I allow people/strong to plan illegal actions in my blog? Could I be accused of organizing the action? Is the site owner responsible for whatever people plan or say within website? These are few of the many ethical questions ...
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An Anthropologist Goes Techno
In a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.hs.fi"emHelsingin Sanomat/em/a today,nbsp;a Finnish author/columnist a href="http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riku_Korhonen"Riku Korhonen/anbsp;discussed news about Egyptian lawmakers wanting to ban a recent biotechnological innovation, the fake hymens made by anbsp;Chinese company a href="http://www.gigimo.com/main/index.php"Gigimo/a. a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_EGYPT_ARTIFICIAL_HYMEN?SITE=NYNYPamp;SECTION=HOMEamp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT"emNew York Post/em/a (5 October 2009)nbsp;describes the product:br /blockquoteThe ...
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An Anthropologist Goes Techno
div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"I happened to come across the 10-minute YouTube version of thenbsp;inaugural lecture of David Gauntlett, Professor of Media and Communications at the School of Media, Arts and Design, ...
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An Anthropologist Goes Techno
The "Innovation Guru" of a href="http://www.businessweek.com/"BusinessWeek/a, Bruce Nussbaum discusses the cultural side of the financial crisis. His idea is that the conceptual leap from "gambling" to "gaming" in describing the phenomenon of risking money was essential. Check out the video ...
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An Anthropologist Goes Techno
Last week I finished a manuscript to appear in a href="http://jyu.academia.edu/TuroUskali"Turo Uskali/a's (ed.) forthcoming volume titled emMedia Futures/em. The text is sort of summarizing piece of my Korean Media Culture research project (2006-2009) funded by a href="http://www.hssaatio.fi/en/index.html"Helsingin Sanomat Foundation/a. If ...
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An Anthropologist Goes Techno
strongLast week/strong I a href="http://techantropology.blogspot.com/2009/05/anthropology-of-online-poker-polemical.html"posted/a about my future project concerning the culture of online poker, and promised to tell more about my plans. So, here is a summary of my research plan.br /br /strongI'm interested/strong in four themes of online ...
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An Anthropologist Goes Techno
emema href="http://getpokernews.com/poker-magazines/poker-review-bluff-magazine/"span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337450764549585794" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 193px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 146px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jXyIdwGa5sw/ShJvMPsde4I/AAAAAAAAAMw/47BbLaqUmgU/s200/Clipboard04.jpg" border="0" //span/astrongspan style="font-family:verdana;"Nothing can substitute the experience /span/strong/em/emememstrongspan style="font-family:verdana;"of the game, the psychological eye for /span/strong/em/emememstrongspan style="font-family:verdana;"the game /span/strong/em/emememstrongspan style="font-family:verdana;"and ...
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An Anthropologist Goes Techno
stronga href="http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/"img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335603762083261794" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 52px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jXyIdwGa5sw/SgvfWjU17WI/AAAAAAAAAMo/enf2929xoIY/s200/Clipboard02.jpg" border="0" //aThe 3-day /stronga href="http://ictd2009.org/"strongconference/strong/a on emInformation and Communication Technologies and Development/em (ICTD2009) at a href="http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/"Carnegie Mellon University/a, Doha, Qatar was an ...
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An Anthropologist Goes Techno
strongTomorrow I will join/strong the emAsian Political Thought/em seminar organized by Prof. a href="http://users.jyu.fi/~pkonen/index.htm"Pekka Korhonen/a of a href="http://www.jyu.fi/ytk/laitokset/yfi/oppiaineet/val/en/"Political Science at University of Jyväskylä/a. I will present a short paper about an exceedingly interesting phenomenon loaded with symbolism and nationalism. It's ...
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An Anthropologist Goes Techno
strongEver wonder/strong why you strongcan/strong do strongcertain/strong things on the span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"Internet/span but strongnot /strongsomething strongelse/strong? Or, why the web is like it is although it could be different/better - or could it?br /br /a href="http://vanelsas.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/alexander-wordpress-banner-1a.jpg"img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328235487086956290" style="FLOAT: right; ...
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An Anthropologist Goes Techno
a href="http://www.w3.org/2009/01/sb_coop2.0/indianmonk.jpg"img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 169px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 228px" alt="" src="http://www.w3.org/2009/01/sb_coop2.0/indianmonk.jpg" border="0" //astrongA group of researchers /strongand I are planning a project on the use of mobile communication technology in several developing countries - ...
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An Anthropologist Goes Techno
strongemLiveScience /em(2 April 2009) /stronga href="http://www.livescience.com/technology/090402-robot-scientist.html"strongreported/strong/a about stronga href="http://www.aber.ac.uk/compsci/Research/bio/robotsci/"Adam the Robot Scientist/a/strong of a href="http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/"Abersystwythin University/a succeeding in creating and confirming a scientific hypothesis without human intervention. Adam strongpredicted/strong that in baker's yeast there are certain genes for specific enzymes ...
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div align="left"a href="http://www.officelabs.com/"strongspan style="color:#000000;"Microsoft Office Labs/span/strong/a has produced a a href="http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090228/microsoft-office-labs-vision-2019-video/"montage video/a about what information technology will be like in 2019. In my opinion it's a neat and inspiring video but like any vision of the future, it has little ...
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a href="http://newmedia.idv.edu/thema/tourism/picture/figure/salzburg.gif"img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 237px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 250px" alt="" src="http://newmedia.idv.edu/thema/tourism/picture/figure/salzburg.gif" border="0" //a a href="http://www.conferencealerts.com/seeconf.mv?q=ca1x3x8m"strongThe Digital Memories/strong conference/a (Salzburg) is over. Here are some of my scattered notes about new and old ideas discussed ...
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An Anthropologist Goes Techno
strongI will spend next week/strong in a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salzburg"Salzburg/a and attend a href="http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/cyber/digital-memories/"Digital Memories/a conference. My a href="http://jyu.academia.edu/JukkaJouhki/Papers#d83112"paper/a titled "Dokdo Island Dispute: Korean Reconstruction of History and National Identity in User-Created Content Media" will introduce Korean cybernationalism, or, the way new ...
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a href="http://brucewagner.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/bittorrent.jpg"img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 185px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 399px" alt="" src="http://brucewagner.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/bittorrent.jpg" border="0" //aa href="http://thepiratebay.org/"strongThe Pirate Bay/strong/a is a Swedish website that tracks BitTorrents. It has to do with sharing files.br /br /strongA traditional model/strong ...
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An Anthropologist Goes Techno
a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/photo.php?pid=1941490amp;o=allamp;op=1amp;view=allamp;subj=53287228526amp;aid=-1amp;id=676876338amp;oid=53287228526"img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305989575273974402" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 154px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jXyIdwGa5sw/SaKpaAghioI/AAAAAAAAALA/ju4KURJuZNY/s200/Clipboard08.jpg" border="0" //a diva href="http://www.facebook.com/"strongThe Facebook/strong/astrong is not only/strong about cheerful chat with lost and found friends or groups with witty names anymore ...
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An Anthropologist Goes Techno
a href="http://videoconferencebureau.co.uk/images/mp_sml_city.gif"/aa href="http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI/223/1612/PreviewComp/SuperStock_1612R-4696.jpg"/astronga href="http://download.skype.com/share/siteimages/skype2-videocall.png"img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 59px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 108px" alt="" src="http://download.skype.com/share/siteimages/skype2-videocall.png" border="0" //aAccording to a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videoconferencing"Wikipedia/a /strongstronga video conference /strongbr /divblockquoteis a set of interactive a title="Telecommunication" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunication"telecommunication/a a title="Technology" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology"technologies/a which ...
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An Anthropologist Goes Techno
For the participants of a href="https://www10.uta.fi/opas/opetusohjelma/marjapuuro.htm?id=875"Transnational Asian Media Cultures/a at University of Tampere, a href="http://jyu.academia.edu/documents/0010/1410/U-Korea.ppt"here/a are the slides of today's lecture.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4418089132630149325-3019916230741307525?l=techantropology.blogspot.com' alt='' //div...
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Here's some stuff I've been working on lately.br /br /strongDokdo Island Dispute: Korean Reconstruction of History and National Identity in User-Created Content Media./strongbr /ulliA paper for a href="http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/Cyber/digmem/dm1/cfp.html"Digital Memories Conference/a, 17-19 March, Salzburg. Introduces the Dokdo Island dispute and its ...
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a href="http://regmedia.co.uk/2007/12/14/wii_cockroach.jpg"img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 115px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 184px" alt="" src="http://regmedia.co.uk/2007/12/14/wii_cockroach.jpg" border="0" //a divdiva href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126884.200-cyborg-cockroaches-could-power-own-electric-brains.html"strongspan style="font-family:georgia;"New Scientist/span/strong/aspan style="font-family:georgia;"strong reported/strong on the developments of insect cybernetics, namely the new and improved model of a strongcyborg ...
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An Anthropologist Goes Techno
strongTraditionally cultural anthropology/strong has been about studying distant tribes and low-tech societies outside the Euro-American realm. It took a while until anthropology dared to stay at home and found that there are interesting objects of research also in the scholar's ...
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An Anthropologist Goes Techno
strongMy colleague /stronga href="http://research.jyu.fi/orgevolution/people.shtml#olli_turunen"strongspan class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"Olli/span/strong/a mailed me an update for the virtual church for kids a href="http://techantropology.blogspot.com/2009/01/virtual-church-for-kids.html"post/a from last week.br /br /strongAccording to /stronga href="http://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/artikkeli/Kirkko+joutui+sulkemaan+lasten+sivujensa+keskustelut/1135242695224"strongspan class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"Helsingin/span span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"Sanomat/span/strong/a (HS) the chat area of a href="http://www.lastenkirkko.fi/"emspan class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"Lastenkirkko/span/em/a ...
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strongReading /stronga href="http://www.digitoday.fi/yhteiskunta/2009/01/13/kirkko-houkuttelee-lapsia-virtuaalimaailmaansa/2009927/66"strongDigitoday/strong/astrong /stronga few days ago, I noticed how a href="http://evl.fi/EVLen.nsf"strongthe Evangelical-Lutheran Church/strong/a of Finland is trying to reach kids in cyberspace by launching a new Flash-based virtual world called a href="http://lastenkirkko.fi/"strongLastenkirkko/strong/a ("Children's Church").br /br /stronga href="http://lastenkirkko.fi/virtuaalitilan-kuvakaappauksia/Untitled-29.jpg"img style="FLOAT: right; ...
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An Anthropologist Goes Techno
a href="http://www.tietokone.fi/"emstrongTietokone/strong/em/a magazine reported on consumer electronics news among which strongvideo glasses /strongcaught my eye, so to speak. a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.sony.com"Sony/a's executive Howard Stinger and Tom Hanks presented the company's new gadgetry, including video eyewear. emTietokone/em readers pointed out that although ...
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strongAccording to /stronga href="http://www.tietokone.fi/uutta/uutinen.asp?news_id=36252"strongTietokone/strong/astrong magazine/strong (30 Dec 08), University of Tampere will develop the research and teaching of new media and information technology by fusing two departments (information and hypermedia) into one emDepartment of Information Research and Interactive Media. /embr ...
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An Anthropologist Goes Techno
strongYesterday I gave a lecture/strong for the a href="http://www.jyu.fi/ytk/laitokset/yfi/oppiaineet/kans/opiskelu/opetus08-09"Master's Program of Civil Society Studies/a at University of Jyväskylä. I talked about the role of the citizen in the South Korean ubiquitous society vision. See the slides a href="http://jyu.academia.edu/documents/0009/1741/Slides.ppt"here/a.br /br /Brief ...
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An Anthropologist Goes Techno
strongemHumanity/em em+/em/strong or the organization formerly known as emWorld Transhumanist Association /emis looking for an strongexecutive director/strong. The association "span style="color:#ff0000;"advocates the ethical use of technology to expand human capacities/span" and supports "span style="color:#ff0000;"the development of and access to new ...
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