↑Monster is a manga by Naoki Urasawa which has been very faithfully adapted to a 74-episode anime series by Masayuki Kojima. The series aired from 2004 to 2005 in Japan. The story, a psychological thriller centred around the … Continue reading →
After his brilliant “From Pong to Planet Quake: Post-industrial transitions from leisure to work” (↵2003) ↑Hector Postigo has published an already promised piece plus has yet another one on the topic in the pipeline: POSTIGO, HECTOR. 2007. Of mods and … Continue reading →
Vol. 8, No. 3 of Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research is dedicated to the topic of “↑Virtuelle Ethnographie / Virtual Ethnography“. The whole content is online for free, most of the texts in German, English, and Spanish … Continue reading →
When they were announced and the first demonstration specimen were shown, they were the big hope. When they got available they led to frustration and were a big disappointment. Meanwhile a lot has been done and they seem to … Continue reading →
a study in second life avatar customization—part 1 True, my first duty these days should be writing up all the stuff of the last six years into a neat volume. But in order not to loose the immersion into modding … Continue reading →
advanced second life avatar customization This is a kind of follow-up to ↵second life creation, dealing a bit more in-depth with customizing avatars for “↑Second Life“ (SL). Basically there are four dimensions of manipulating the avatar’s visual appearance: shape, skin … Continue reading →
It is eerie like hell, in my humble opinion. On 06 December 2007 ↑Toyota revealed two new “Toyota Partner Robots”, one of them able to ↑play the violin. At the World Expo 2005 they already had a couple of robots … Continue reading →
The ↑Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth (ASA) has set up a weblog, the ↑ASA Globalog, “to further discussion on all aspects of anthropology. There will be a guest blogger each month who will post articles to … Continue reading →