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Anthropologists wonder about iPod-culture

Published on January 31, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, applied anthropology, culture traditions, internet, music, technology

Detroit News

Portable music players create their own culture. iPod users, who also call themselves “iPeople,” say they can’t get enough of the music downloaded from computer hard drives, the Internet and CD collections. Cultural anthropologists and techno experts wonder what the impact of their actions will be. At this point, experts are still grappling for answers. >> continue (updated link, original no longer available)

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Portable music players create their own culture. iPod users, who also call themselves "iPeople," say they can't get enough of the music downloaded from computer hard drives, the Internet and CD collections. Cultural anthropologists and techno experts wonder what…

New: Science Commons – sharing scientific knowledge with others

Published on January 6, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, internet, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, University / Academia

Creative Commons

Science Commons is a new project of Creative Commons and will launch early 2005.

The mission of Science Commons is to encourage scientific innovation by making it easier for scientists, universities, and industries to use literature, data, and other scientific intellectual property and to share their knowledge with others. Science Commons works within current copyright and patent law to promote legal and technical mechanisms that remove barriers to sharing. >> continue to Science Commons

Remark: The search engine is already working and a search for anthropology gives you more than 900 matching pages!

(Link via netbib weblog)

Creative Commons

Science Commons is a new project of Creative Commons and will launch early 2005.

The mission of Science Commons is to encourage scientific innovation by making it easier for scientists, universities, and industries to use literature, data, and other scientific…

The Vulgar Spirit of Blogging – ethnographic study of Persian-language weblogs

Published on December 11, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, cyberanthropology, internet, Middle East

Alireza Doostdar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, American Anthropologist

This article is an ethnographic study of Persian-language weblogs (blogs), focusing on a divisive argument among Iranian bloggers that came to be known as the “vulgarity debate.”

Sparked by a controversial blogger who ridiculed assertions that Islam was compatible with human rights, the debate revolved around the claim that biogging had a “vulgar spirit” that made it easy for everything from standards of writing to principles of logical reasoning to be undermined. >> continue (pdf) (Link updated)

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Alireza Doostdar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, American Anthropologist

This article is an ethnographic study of Persian-language weblogs (blogs), focusing on a divisive argument among Iranian bloggers that came to be known as the "vulgarity debate."

Sparked by a controversial…

maxmod :: online among the gamemodders – a research-project in cyberanthropology

Published on December 2, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, cyberanthropology, internet, technology

Alexander Knorr, xirdal.lmu.de (University of Munich, Germany)

‘Maxmod’ is an open-research-project in sociocultural anthropology. At its core stands long-lasting ‘thick participation’ in an online-community. The chosen community condensates around the shared interest in, and practice of modifying commercial computergame-software, particularly the game “Max Payne”.

The project’s first goal is to describe and understand the community’s social structure, the gamemodders’ cultural actions and artefacts, and most importantly, their explicit and tacit cultural knowledge. The virulent importance and meaning that transnational technoludic online-communities of practice have for globalization and related issues will become clear.

Thirdly the project aims to substantially contribute to a systematic basis for the advancement of sociocultural anthropology. The discipline has a lot to contribute to the understanding of the relation between human beings and cybernetic systems, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in particular. >> continue

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Alexander Knorr, xirdal.lmu.de (University of Munich, Germany)

'Maxmod' is an open-research-project in sociocultural anthropology. At its core stands long-lasting 'thick participation' in an online-community. The chosen community condensates around the shared interest in, and practice of modifying commercial computergame-software, particularly the…

Ethnographic study on bloggers in California & New York

Published on November 10, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, cyberanthropology, fieldwork / methods, internet

Dina Mehta, author of the blog Conversations with Dina, points to a ethnographic study on bloggers. She quotes:

“The bloggers interviewed say their preference for blogging over a web page because it is more dynamic “the rhythm of frequent, usually brief posts, the immediacy of reverse chronological order”, more focused “ the little distraction it provides”. A blog is perceived as a “superior alternative to sending mass emails” because it is freer and less intrusive”

“Bloggers feel they have an audience expecting regular, good postings, and an obligation towards them. Participants speak about feeling burnout, and having stopped blogging for a while.”

“The act of writing, as art and craft or as a support for thinking, is also one of the motors of blogging. A last reason for blogging is being part of a community. The publishing process becomes intrinsically collective, as people interact through blogs. “Blogs are natural community tools for people whose practice is to write and comment on the writing of others: researchers, poets, journalists.”

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Dina Mehta, author of the blog Conversations with Dina, points to a ethnographic study on bloggers. She quotes:

"The bloggers interviewed say their preference for blogging over a web page because it is more dynamic “the rhythm of frequent, usually brief…