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• February 01, 2007
• 21:23

  Is the Internet Liberal or Conservative?

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  Can the Internet be described as either predominantly liberal or conservative? Scholars and pundits have weighed in on this question, sometimes coming to opposite conclusions. a name=cutid1/abr /br /Different surveys have painted differing pictures of political ideology among Internet users. ...
• November 28, 2006
• 17:36

  Ive spent the past few days writing ...

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  Ive spent the past few days writing up a survey about IM conversation behavior for my sociolinguistics class. If you have a few minutes, Id really appreciate it if you took it. Its for a good cause (my GPA) and ...
• October 18, 2006
• 20:13

  Why we blog

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  Reposted from a href=http://dialogic.blogspot.com/2006/10/why-we-blog.htmlDialogic/abr /br /I would like to extend an invitation to bloggers to join in on a collective blogging section of our upcoming winter issue of Reconstruction. The issue is the “Theories/Practices of Blogging.” In addition to the ...
• July 07, 2006
• 19:34

  Theoretical perspectives on blogs

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  Hello, I hope this community hasnt become defunct.nbsp; Anyway, Id just like to solicit suggestions and discussion ofnbsp; ways to examine blogs theoretically.nbsp;nbsp; Right now, I have three different perspectives:br /br /1.nbsp; Blogs as impression management.nbsp; This comes from Erving ...
• February 04, 2006
• 9:57

  real responsibilites located in the physical life of the body vs online life

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  im not sure i entirely agree; what do you think?br /br /[C]yberspace resurrects rather than transcends the dualist legacies of the past...[W]e would do well to remember that we are, for the forseeable future, here to stay in these bodies, ...
• December 23, 2005
• 18:28

  Virtual Ethnographer’s Toolkit: a software fantasy

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  As researchers of cyberspace, virtual ethnographers approach social software with different needs than the typical user. While the typical user may only seek out conversational technologies for communicative purposes, the virtual ethnographer tends to ask questions about the patterns of ...
• December 13, 2005
• 18:15

  CMA Conference Papers Archive

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  The 104th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association happened a few weeks ago. They put up a meeting page (a href=http://www.aaanet.org/annual_meeting/2005/gallery.htmAmerican Anthropological Association 2005/a) which, frankly, looks like a brochure for tourists. One anthropologist blogger remarked: Unfortunately....none of the ...
• November 28, 2005
• 20:21

  Virtual Culture Shock?

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  a name=cutid1/aSomeone said this to me recently on another blog:br /blockquoteI wonder if it mightn’t be a good idea to separate, at least analytically, physical and psychological comfort. Traditional fieldwork has never been justified (except incidentally because it is, as ...
• November 09, 2005
• 1:56

  Default Homepages and Becoming

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  a name=cutid1/aMahmood (2001) did ethnographic research with some Islamic women who did not come from devout families, but sought to live their lives more in accord with Islamic doctrine. Achieving piety entailed the inculcation of entire dispositions through a simultaneous ...
• October 25, 2005
• 1:43

  Strategies for Researching Lurkers

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  a name=cutid1/abr /On another virtual community, someone asked: a href=http://www.livejournal.com/community/parsingculture/349.html“does anyone know of any good sources on the problems of documenting online reading (lurking)? Most of what Ive seen deals with the problem of the researcher as lurker, Im more ...
• October 08, 2005
• 0:25

  Anthropological Ethics and Spyware

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  Anthropologists have an ethical obligation to those they study, which includes protecting their fieldnotes (American Anthropological Association 2000; LeCompte and Schensul 1999a: 190). When it comes to storing data, LeCompte and Schensul recommend that data be stored in safe places ...
• September 04, 2005
• 21:49

  This is a paper I wrote for ...

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  This is a paper I wrote for a class last year. It could use a lot of revising, but I was under the gun to get it finished and turned in at the time I wrote it.br /br /a href=http://helios.acomp.usf.edu/~ncporter/ResearchPaper.pdfThe ...
• April 23, 2005
• 23:37

  Web Design and the Virtual Panopticon

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  a name=cutid1/abr /Since the CMA site has been mentioned in AAA E-News (Porter 2005), I have received a few e-mails and blog mentions (e.g. a href=http://alex.golub.name/log/?p=377Golublog/a, a href=http://dream.sims.berkeley.edu/~jantin/wordpress/index.php?p=71TechnoTaste/a, a href=http://xirdal.lmu.de/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2005/04/12#computer_mediated_anthropologyXirdalium/a) which compliment my site for its content but criticize it ...
• April 08, 2005
• 15:25

  The Politics of Political Blogs and Academic Freedom

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  a name=cutid1/abr /My university is now offering a blog service, which they announced through e-mail. The e-mail announcement (Introducing blog@USF, sent April 7, 2005) read in part:br /blockquoteBlog@USF makes it simple to:br /[...]br /*Create topic arenas with colleagues/friendsbr /*Engage in ...
• March 07, 2005
• 9:23

  Quantifying the Internet?

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  Both Nielsen//Netratings and Comscore agree that for the month of December 2003, DeanForAmerica.com received more unique visitors than Georgewbush.com (Nielsen//Netrating 2004: 1, Comscore Networks 2004). However, the actual numbers they come up with are significantly different. The former claims that ...
• February 12, 2005
• 23:39

  Democratic Potential of the Internet?

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  Meikle (2002) notes a change in the nature of the Internet overall, labeling one ‘Version 1.0’ and the other ‘Version 2.0.’ He contrasts the former from the latter by saying that the Internet is moving from an open system to ...
• January 11, 2005
• 19:26

  Crossing Academias Communication Divide

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  a name=cutid1/abr /In my a href=http://www.livejournal.com/community/cmanthropology/3447.htmllast entry/a, I quoted a blogger to illustrate my point about how even online, the distinction can be made between information given and information given off (to borrow a term from Goffman). To my surprise, ...
• November 22, 2004
• 0:08

  Online Accents?

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  a name=cutid1/abr /For a class project, I am examining the use of virtual communities by Indian diasporas. In the course of my research, I found some discussion of how having an accent can be a hindrance to sociocultural integration:br /blockquoteAs ...
• November 17, 2004
• 17:58

  HRAF Ignores the Internet

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  a name=cutid1/aThe Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) is probably the largest collections of ethnographies anywhere in the world. Their website describes its purpose as follows:br /blockquoteThe growing concern of students, scholars, and the general public to understand ethnic conflict, cultural ...
• November 13, 2004
• 22:52

  Does the Online Availability of Perspectives Lead to a Postmodern Perspective?

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  a name=cutid1/abr /Does the Internet exert a homogenizing influence on culture? Lurie writes:br /blockquote... Like reading or breathing, web browsing itself is agnostic with respect to politics and culture. Unlike reading or breathing, however, surfing mimics a postmodern, deconstructionist perspective ...
• 3:22

  Virtual Verification of References

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  a name=cutid1/abr /There have been many points raised concerning the advantages and disadvantages of online publishing. (For a bulleted list of these points, see the Hypertext Ethnography and Virtual Reality page on the Methodology section of the a href=http://www.cas.usf.edu/anthropology/cma/CMA Page/a.) ...
• November 10, 2004
• 19:54

  Imagining Others in Cyberspace

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  Lockard (1996) claimed that cyberspace was conceptualized as white space, even in the rare cases that people other than white middle or upper class Americans used it. It has been 8 years sincle Lockard wrote that chapter, which is a ...
• November 08, 2004
• 7:21

  CMA of Consciousness?

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  How does computer use affect human consciousness? It is a rather broad question, so a theory of consciousness is in order:br /blockquoteReality construction takes place when the neurons of the intermediate network develop an interpretation of -- or more precisely, ...
• October 31, 2004
• 2:58

  Public CMA?

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  Borofsky writes: Public anthropology demonstrates the abilitiy of anthropology and anthropologists to effectively address problems beyond the discipline - illuminating the larger social issues of our times as well as encouraging broad, public conversations about them with the explicit goal ...
• October 25, 2004
• 22:50

  In a href=http://www.livejournal.com/community/cmanthropology/1304.htmlmy previous entry/a, I contended ...

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  In a href=http://www.livejournal.com/community/cmanthropology/1304.htmlmy previous entry/a, I contended a powerful argument for CMA being central to the discipline is that the Internets impact goes beyond its direct use. I read a couple articles today that give food for thought on what ...