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Book review: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life

Published on April 28, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, books, culture traditions, fieldwork / methods, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, Northern America

USA Today

Medical anthropologist and University of California-San Francisco professor Sharon Kaufman, relies on extensive research and two years of firsthand observations in three hospitals. Kaufman’s book wrestles with death and dying. She describes how 27 people pass their final days and hours. In the epilogue, she notes that she had not expected to spend half her time in intensive-care units. >> continue

USA Today

UPDATED: Ethnographic Study on "Digital Kids"

Published on April 17, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, fieldwork / methods, media, technology, youth

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 knowledge, assess how these phenomena affect learning, and encourage use of its conclusions for the improvement of schools.

Principal investigators include anthropologist Mizuko Ito, who has studied youths’ use of digital media in the United States and Japan.

Half of the ethnographic study’s research sites will be online and include the use of blogs, new online play sites such as Neopets and online games. The other half will include sites like libraries, community centers, game centers and after-school programs that have digital media. >> continue

UPDATE: Judd Antin (University of California Berkeley!) has more information. He writes – among others: “There is practically no research on how youth in the United States use, perceive, and value ICTs. It’s a gigantic gap. We aim to fill it. (..) Educational technology has been stagnant since about 1990. There have been practically no new developments in teaching software. Through our study we hope to provide the ammunition to develop educational software that works, and which capitalizes on the new, digital, networked environment in which many kids are growing up. >> continue
He also points to the research project’s homepage

LINKS UPDATED 5.1.2023

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 knowledge,…

Ethnographic Flickr

Published on April 16, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, cyberanthropology, fieldwork / methods, internet, technology

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 exhausting correcting papers with dozens of hyperlinks to photos on flickr. But it was also fun. I especially enjoyed seeing the various ways students used Flickr’s tags to come up with interesting paper topics. >> continue

Anthropologist Kerim Friedman, Keywords

Ethnographic Skype

Published on April 15, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, cyberanthropology, fieldwork / methods, technology

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 weaknesses compensated by other methods like the ethnographic interview.

As Damien Stolarz has put it, Shapiro provides us with a “Simple hack using Skype as an audio interviewing and archive tool. Instead of needing phone interview recording hardware (which you might not have) you can use computer tools (which you have in abundance).” This contains tremendous possibilities for every trustworthy cyberanthropologist. >> continue (Link updated)

Dina Mehta: How social software and social tools are truly worldchanging

Skype and VOIP – all posts by Dina Mehta

antropologi.info’s links on Cyberanthropology

LINKS UPDATED 9.1.2021

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 weaknesses compensated by other methods…

AAAs Anthropology News March: Tsunami, Unemployment, Muslims in Thailand

Published on March 8, 2005 by lorenz Posted in anthropology (general), anthropology in the news, culture traditions, fieldwork / methods, journal articles / papers

Here are three more articles from the Anthropology News March 2005 by the American Anthropological Association:

Vishvajit Pandya: “When Land Became Water”. Tsunami and the Ongees of Little Andaman Island
I had a chance to visit the Ongees in the last weeks of January to find out how my old friends explained the tsunami and what they planned for their future. >> continue

Carrie Lane Chet: Work and Unemployment in the Global Labor Market
Since the fall of 2001, I had been conducting ethnographic fieldwork among unemployed high-technology workers in and around Dallas, Texas. >> continue

Raymond Scupin: Polarized Cultural Stereotypes Contribute to New Violence
The Thai government’s insensitivity toward the people and cultures of South Thailand is undoubtedly one factor contributing to the new violence in this region. >> continue

Here are three more articles from the Anthropology News March 2005 by the American Anthropological Association:

Vishvajit Pandya: "When Land Became Water". Tsunami and the Ongees of Little Andaman Island
I had a chance to visit the Ongees in the last weeks…