Some day in the first half of April 2002 I ↵stumbled over gamemodding and slowly realized that there was more than something in it, legitimizing an anthropological look. Before that I was aware of player-created game-content, as I had played … Continue reading →
↑About the ↑open access anthropology blog: This is the blog for Open Access Anthropology, an organization of volunteers interested in creating open access alternatives to anthropological publications. This blog will be the news outlet for the organization where we will … Continue reading →
Technological politics and the networked PC However, the best illustration of the kind of positive cultural politics envisaged here concerns the culture of game modification. Games players write and exchange ‘mods’—modifications to games programs that include new twists of storyline … Continue reading →
Original, authentic, copy: Conceptual issues in digital texts For textual studies, digital texts present special problems and magnify others. Three examples will suffice. The first is a result of their ease of reproduction, alteration, corruption, and transmission, much greater than … Continue reading →
Finally I introduced the subcategory ↵excerpts to the category ↵literature within this blog. That’s something I intended from the start on, but never did till now. Over time I realized that, maybe because of vanity, this blog more and more … Continue reading →