The Globe and Mail
Cultural lag is the term first coined by anthropologists to describe the gap between an invention and society's ability to actually use it. It took about 50 years for the typewriter to displace the pen. When electricity first came t… more »
Category: "technology"
by lorenz on May 23, 2005 in technology, corporate & business anthropology, culture traditions, fieldwork / methods
I've collected lots of articles on Corporate Anthropology but maybe this one here in the Financal Times, written by an anthrologist (Gillian Tett)who has "tried to incorporate what I learnt about “people watching” into financial journalism", can be used… more »
by lorenz on May 11, 2005 in technology, Asia, fieldwork / methods, media, youth, journal articles / papers, internet
Mizuku Ito has published a new text, a keynote speech she gave at “Digital Generations: Children, Young People and New Media”. Ito is involved in the new research project on "Digital Kids".
From her introduction:
"I've been trying to develop ways… more »
by lorenz on Apr 18, 2005 in technology, gift economy gift giving, Us and Them, anthropology (general)
Jill Walker (University of Bergen, Norway) reports from a seminar I've missed to attend:
Lars Risan is the first speaker at the network seminar I’m at in Oslo. Don’t you love the idea of code as sacrament? Lars is an anthropologist, and he starts his… more »
Linux Electronics
A University of California, Berkeley, professor is spearheading a team just awarded $3.3 million to study "digital kids." The study will document how youth from ages 10 to 20 are using new digital media to create and exchange knowled… more »
Anthropologist Kerim Friedman, Keywords
Last year, when I was offered the opportunity to teach a course on anthropology and photography at Haverford College, I immediately knew I wanted to do something with Flickr. I have to admit that it was exhausti… more »
Alexander Knorr, Xirdalium
Oftentimes there is a confusion about what anthropological 'fieldwork' actually is. One aim of my project is to transpose anthropology's rich and powerful methodology to the terra nova online: thick participation plus its we… more »
by lorenz on Apr 13, 2005 in technology, gift economy gift giving, anthropology (general), persons and theories, cyberanthropology, internet
David Zeitlyn, University of Kent at Canterbury
Building on Eric Raymond’s work this article discusses the motivation and rewards that lead some software engineers to participate in the open source movement. It is suggested that software engineers in… more »
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