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 »
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by lorenz on Jun 28, 2008 in technology, corporate & business anthropology, design anthropology, applied anthropology
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 »
by lorenz on Jun 7, 2008 in technology, gift economy gift giving, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, books, cyberanthropology, internet, websites
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 »
by lorenz on Apr 13, 2008 in technology, corporate & business anthropology, design anthropology, Us and Them, applied anthropology, anthropology (general), media, internet
(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 »
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 »
by lorenz on Mar 30, 2008 in technology, development empowerment, fieldwork / methods, Native American, Caribbean, journal articles / papers, cyberanthropology, internet, websites
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 »
by lorenz on Mar 9, 2008 in technology, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia, internet • 1 comment »
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 »
by lorenz on Feb 26, 2008 in technology, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, fieldwork / methods, cyberanthropology, University / Academia, internet, websites • 4 comments »
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 »
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