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More book reviews: Publishers are approaching bloggers

Published on November 26, 2006 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, books, internet, University / Academia

Columbia University Press recently approached Savage Minds, asking if we would like to review new books from their catalog”, Kerim Friedman writes and begins reviewing the first book “The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on popular politics in most of the world” by Partha Chatterjee.

I (and some other anthropology bloggers) have received this email by Columbia University Press (CUP) as well and you can expect reviews of their anthropology books here on antropologi.info as well (the first book has arrived).

“The new trend is getting bloggers to write about you”, according to marketing consultants. This seems to be true as I was approached by an Norwegian publisher only a few days later and the first review was published by guestblogger Syeda Rahima Parvin (in Norwegian). Earlier this year, a museum in Germany has taken contact with me.

Of course, journalistic standards apply here in the same way as in newspapers (no advertising!).

There has been some discussion on this subject, see:

How to approach bloggers about products

Best ways to approach bloggers for product reviews

Columbia University Press recently approached Savage Minds, asking if we would like to review new books from their catalog", Kerim Friedman writes and begins reviewing the first book "The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on popular politics in most of…

“YouTube clips = everyday ethnography”

Published on November 26, 2006 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, cyberanthropology, fieldwork / methods, internet

To decipher consumers’ needs, corporate ethnographers review countless Youtube clips and read scads of blogs. “Viewing a film about the Yanomamo tribe in the Amazon rain forest in Anthropology 101 is like seeing a Youtube clip where a little kid in Peoria is sticking marshmallows in his face,” Robbie business anthropologist Blinkoff says in The Baltimore Sun.

And by following Flickr an anthropologist can “see what tools people use on a daily level,” as well as how their living arrangements in the same room may change over the course of several years, our fellow anthro-blogger Kambiz Kamrani says:

As consumers around the world proactively post to their blogs, stream if not lead parts of their lives online, virtual anthropologists now vicariously ‘live’ amongst them, at home, at work, out on the streets.

>> read the whole article in The Baltimore Sun

UPDATE: Kambiz Kamrani has blogged about this in the meanwhile: I’ve been quoted in the Baltimore Sun’s “Common realities”

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To decipher consumers' needs, corporate ethnographers review countless Youtube clips and read scads of blogs. "Viewing a film about the Yanomamo tribe in the Amazon rain forest in Anthropology 101 is like seeing a Youtube clip where a little kid…

New Open Access Anthropology Website, mailinglist, chat and t-shirts!

Published on November 7, 2006 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, internet, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, University / Academia

Great new initiatives: Kerim Friedman has set up a wiki to promote free access to anthropology journal articles and papers – Open Access Anthropology. It is located at http://openaccessanthropology.org/ This wiki explains: What is open access? Why should anthropologists care about open access? Why does the American Anthropological Association oppose open access?What can we do to promote open access anthropology?

He has also created a discussion list for Open Access issues. It on Google Groups which means one can read it on the web, via RSS, or you can sign up to get it via e-mail. “Please help spread the word!”, hew writes:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/open-access-anthropology

At Savage Minds there are several new posts on Open Access:

Open Access Your Diss

Who’s down with OAA?

Open Access in San Jose (AAA annual meeting)

UPDATES:

New Open Access Anthropology Blog

Savage Minds: Please sign the Open Access Anthropology Letter

At Savage Minds: AAA Open Access T-shirts

Savage Minds: Open Access Anthropology: what you can do

American Anthropological Association opposes Open Access to Journal Articles

Kerim Friedman: Open Source Anthropology

Open Access Anthropology – antropologi.info’s special

Great new initiatives: Kerim Friedman has set up a wiki to promote free access to anthropology journal articles and papers - Open Access Anthropology. It is located at http://openaccessanthropology.org/ This wiki explains: What is open access? Why should anthropologists care…

Paper by Erkan Saka: Blogging as a Research Tool for Ethnographic Fieldwork

Published on November 6, 2006 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, fieldwork / methods, internet, journal articles / papers, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, technology

Erkan Saka, one of the most active blogging anthropologists, has published his paper Blogging as a Research Tool for Ethnographic Fieldwork that he presented at the annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers in Brisbane six weeks ago.

The paper is a good introduction into the topic. It was inspired by recent discussions on anthropology blogs.

His main points:

Blogging occupies an interesting place between the personal and the public. The moment one starts blogging, s/he becomes public.
Blogging brings immediate feedback; not only from the limited scholarly circles but from a wider public/audience which in turn exposes exposes the ethnographer to a much more effective issue of accountability.
Moreover, blogging urges to see motives in a more regular sense, thus creates a strong sense of regularity that forces the ethnographer to produce on a regular basis which in turn produces a constant appeal to narrate what would normally remain fragments of field notes.
Finally, blogging might be a remedy to the anxiety of being in ‘after the fact’ that is shared by many anthropologists. Blogging takes place in the present tense while actively engaging with ‘the fact’, with the emergent phenomena unlike the later edited institutionally accepted monographs most of which become outdated.

In this paper, Erkan Saka also compares blogging to traditional journalism and reviews relevant literature on blogging.

>> read the whole paper

UPDATE: An updated version of this paper was discussed in the Media Anthropology Network.

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Second generation migrants blog more about race and ethnicity

Published on October 31, 2006 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, Asia, cyberanthropology, fieldwork / methods, globalisation, internet, migration, technology

Anthropologist Jesse de Leon shares some of his results from his field work among Filipino bloggers and their expression of Filipino identity on blogs.

He found five major categories of Filipino bloggers: Cosmopolitans, the Philippine Elite, Im/migrants, Second Generation Diasporic Filipinos, and Younger Filipinos in the Philippines. They blog about different topics. The way he used linking in his research has especially caught my attention. You somehow express your identity the way you use links on your blog.

Jesse de Leon writes:

Second Generation Diasporic Filipinos rarely link to blogs written by the preceding groups nor leave comments. More than the other groups, these Filipino bloggers discuss race and ethnicity. Im/migrants also discuss such things, but these topics seem especially relevant to the Second Generation, judging by how much they blog about race and ethnicity. I’ve noticed the same in my interviews.

Finally come Younger Filipinos in the Philippines. Generally, they don’t link to blogs written by Second Generation Diasporic Filipinos, even though they’re the same age and often have similar interests. They’re far more likely to link to blogs written by the other groups.

>> read his whole post on Sarapen

He has also published his first outline of his thesis. Very impressive. I wish I was so organised… (sometimes at least…)

Anthropologist Jesse de Leon shares some of his results from his field work among Filipino bloggers and their expression of Filipino identity on blogs.

He found five major categories of Filipino bloggers: Cosmopolitans, the Philippine Elite, Im/migrants, Second Generation Diasporic…