Monthly Archives: September 2005

community express 2.0

Posted on by October 5, 2012
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Rex thankfully has pointed us at a piece of software written by his friend John Burton:  […] The program knows more about demographics than I do (the intricacies of birth spacing, for instance) and, most critically for me, the program understands the distinction between residence and descent, so you can do genealogical work that integrates with a regular household census. Perfect those pesky societies—which is to say every society—where people move around and live in different places. […] Read more about the program in ↑Rex’s post on Community Express 2.0 over at ↑Savage Minds. Then download it from ↑communityexpress.info—as I … Continue reading →

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polylog on violence

Posted on by October 3, 2012
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The forum for intercultural philosophy ↑polylog has a focus issue on ↑The Meanings of Violence and the Violence of Meanings. Included is an article by Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart, called ↑Violence: Conceptual Themes and the Evaluation of Actions. Very interesting regarding the computergames & violence issue. And Wim van Binsbergen’s ↑Violence in Anthropology, too. … Continue reading →

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dumpster

Posted on by July 12, 2012
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This morning, while I walked from the tramway to my office, I spotted some communal dumpsters for glass-bottles and the like placed at the curbside. The steel dumpsters are about man-height and their bases are octagons. They look very raw and blocky. My immediate involuntary thoughts were: “The corrugated-steel texture looks good, but hell, they surely could have used some more polygons!” Now am I a mapper, or what?

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DGV05: cyberanthropology agenda

Posted on by July 6, 2012
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The agenda of the workshop ‘cyberanthropology’ at the ↑Conference of the German Anthropological Association (GAA aka DGV) – Halle / Saale, 4th – 7th October 2005 finally is [almost] complete. The workshop will take place on Thursday, 06 October 2005. It starts at 13:45h and runs until 18:00h. All in all nine presentations will be held—alas one of the scheduled contributors is not yet sure if he can make it to the conference, but we shall know soon. Here is the agenda: ↑KNORR, ALEXANDER ↵Cyberanthropology ↑ZURAWSKI, NILS ↵Internet and anthropology BAUR, TIMO ↵Structures of computer-mediated cultural spaces KOLO, CASTULUS ↵Cyberanthropology … Continue reading →

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filing up 2

Posted on by October 5, 2012
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Just for the record. Today I finally found time—still way too less—to delve into my fieldnotes-folders on the HDD. At least I managed to post eight fielddiary-entries from back in 2002 and 2003, when I struggled hard to create the basic shape of my project and did not yet have any strategy how to deal with the whole thing—and was all but sure that it ever would indeed become a project. I left the fielddiary-entries as they were—as far as this was possible. E.g. information which should remain private was taken out. The following entries were added to this blog, … Continue reading →

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fusionanomaly

Posted on by July 12, 2012
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NooPed, the man from the ↑cyberfield, just unwillingly re-hinted me via e-mail—we’re discussing yet another model of cyberspace ;-)— at ↑fusionanomaly by Atomjack. I’ve been there before several times, but through time it somehow got lost in my mind’s mælstrom. The website is one of the rare manifestations of the original hypertext-idea [see also ↵hypermedia ethnography]. A structured accumulation of thoughts, snippets, ideas, citations, and downloadable files of diverse formats and sizes bound together by countless criss-crossing hyperlinks. The problem of course is, that for the reader the structure quickly gets out of sight. Nevertheless it’s worthwhile to get lost … Continue reading →

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DGV05: cyberanthropology going mobile

Posted on by July 6, 2012
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anthropological perspectives on mobile communication by Castulus Kolo Parallel to the diffusion of the Internet’s utilisation the mobile phone as a means of communication has spread all over the world even faster, and still unhampered. Diverse Internet services meanwhile have established themselves in the focus of social and cultural academic disciplines—even different currents of research are noticeable, like e.g. cyberanthropology. Yet mobile communication has been widely neglected—at least in the German-speaking part of academia. Seen from a sociocultural anthropological vantage point not the technology itself is especially interesting, but the charging of the end devices with cultural meaning, and the … Continue reading →

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DGV05: the zapatista effect

Posted on by July 6, 2012
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Actors, representations, and networks of the Chiapas conflict on the www by ↑Julia Pauli and ↑Michael Schnegg More than ten years ago, on 1 January 1994, the EZLN (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional) stormed and took official buildings and Municipios in Mexico’s federal state Chiapas. Ultimately war on the government was declared. At that time only few observers and actors understood the tremendous virtual and media potential this seemingly locally bounded conflict had. Only one year later US transregional newspapers like the Washington Post and Newsweek reported on the Mexican rebels with high tech weapons, fighting history’s first Internetwar. Different … Continue reading →

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DGV05: digitised everyday life?

Posted on by July 6, 2012
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The significance of computer-mediated communication for the development of transnational communities by Heike Greschke More and more the Internet is used by transnational populations. For instance in order to maintain relationships to affiliates, to get up-to-date information on the region of origin, or to to exert political influence as a diaspora. Nevertheless we know comparatively few about the social consequences of this growing integration of electronic media of communication into the everyday life of transnational populations. This presentation is based on data from a still running ethnographical study on an Internet discussion-forum. Said forum is used by people stemming from … Continue reading →

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DGV05: cybercommunities and cyberspace

Posted on by July 6, 2012
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Online games as an example by ↑Michel Nachez and ↑Patrick Schmoll The presentation aims at depicting a cybercommunity inside which we have done participant observation. The community’s members have organised themselves online and have created a shared description or account. Some of the peculiarities of this community are to be found again in others. The community’s pecularities in turn hint at peculiarities of social interaction online: dematerialisation of the concept of physical territory in favor of virtual territory, absence of the body, anonymity, the problem of masks, multiple ‘personalities’, now and then amibuity of gender, transportation of specific shared norms … Continue reading →

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