German sociocultural anthropology indeed is engaged in contemporary issues! On 4th of July 2005 the authors Prof. Dr. Nina Glick Schiller, Dr. Data Dea, and [my friend! :-)] Markus Höhne (Ph.D. candidate) have submitted a report to the ↑Max Planck … Continue reading →
The Internet and sociocultural anthropology—continuities and breaches A review of approaches to cyberanthropology by ↑Nils Zurawski It took nearly ten years from the ↵Welcome to Cyberia to the ↵Cyberidentities at War. During those ten years the Internet changed from hackers’ … Continue reading →
I am not sure what it is, ↑fquadr.at has put online [↑mirror 1 | ↑mirror 2 | ↑mirror 3], or what to make of it—but it is ingenious, surreal, and a great demonstration of ↑ragdoll physics—see the paper ↑Advanced … Continue reading →
When I visited my first ↵LAN-party, the ↑Gameparade back in 2002, the first thing that struck me was that all the common clichés of ‘the dedicated computergamer’ did not at all live up to empirical evidence. During the three days … Continue reading →
A social scientist’s dream has come true [I am glad, that I am an anthropologist] with parc’s newest groupblog ↑PlayOn—Exploring the social dimensions of virtual worlds. ‘Dimensions’ hits it right home, as it seems to be all about quantification. via … Continue reading →
Tricksterish hoaxing definitely is an integral part of online-culture. At c0x2.de an unidentified individual posing as an electrical engineer and US-citizen ↑reports that he found a keylogging-device similar to the ↑KeyGhost brand inside his Dell-laptop—inserted right between keyboard and ethernet … Continue reading →
Chris Kelty ↑already warned us, now it’s published. The June 2005 issue of Fortune Small Business carries an article by Richard McGill Murphy called ↑Getting to Know You (↑also here [.pdf | 53KB]). The subtitle says: “Microsoft dispatches anthropologists into … Continue reading →
Today ↑Remedy has released a video of Alan Wake, by far surpassing the ↵teaser-trailer. From comparison to the descriptions in some of the E3-press-reactions I deduce that this is the video which was presented there. The game-engine shows off its … Continue reading →
With the recent hype around ↑Revenge of the Sith hitting the silverscreen I was reminded of the heap of work we had done for the Max Payne 1 total conversion (TC) Lightsaber 4 (LS4), but which never was included into … Continue reading →