Leslie M. Tkach-Kawasaki, University of Tsukuba (Japan), Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
What is your image of Japan? A technologically hip nation of cyber-savvy samurai? A land where culture can be both cute and conformist? In Japanese Cyber… more »
Category: "internet"
by lorenz on Oct 4, 2004 in culture traditions, fieldwork / methods, journal articles / papers, Middle East, cyberanthropology, internet
Forum: Qualitative Social Research (FQS)
The aim of this article is to discuss the lessons learned from conducting semi-structured interviews online in an ethnographic study that took place in Saudi Arabia during the period 2001-2002.
The purpose o… more »
Press Release
All participants in the qualitative portion of the study found living without the Internet more difficult than they expected, and in some cases impossible, because the tools and services the Internet offers were firmly ingrained in their… more »
by lorenz on Sep 15, 2004 in technology, corporate & business anthropology, applied anthropology, fieldwork / methods, cyberanthropology, internet
Karen Lee, University of Texas at Austin
"Netnography," coined from 'ethnography on the Internet,' is an emerging qualitative research methodology adapting ethnographic research techniques to the study of cultures and communities constructed through t… more »
by lorenz on Aug 23, 2004 in indigenous people / minorities, technology, culture traditions, internet
Telepolis
During the 4th conference on "Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication", Internet researchers from about 30 countries focused on the differences, the potential conflicts and cultural discrepancies in cyberspace understood as a… more »
CNN/ CBS News
-- For 12-year-old Anju Sharma, hope for a better life arrives in her poor farming village three days a week on a bicycle rickshaw that carries a computer with a high-speed, wireless Internet connection.
Designed like temple carriages… more »
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