↑Gamer br [46:50min | .avi | 147.3MB] by Pedro Bayeux and Flavio Soares is a Brazilian documentary about the game scene around here. It gives voice to gamers, producers, lanhouse owners, journalists, psychologists, anthropologists, politicians, government representatives and game … Continue reading →
↓Gamer br [46:50min | .avi | 147.3MB] by Pedro Bayeux and Flavio Soares: is a Brazilian documentary about the game scene around here. It gives voice to gamers, producers, lanhouse owners, journalists, psychologists, anthropologists, politicians, government representatives and game enthusiasts … Continue reading →
kulturwissenschaftliche technikforschung and cyberanthropology Since quite a time [the first entry is dated 25 May 2005] there is a weblog called ↑Kulturwissenschaftliche Technikforschung published by the ↑Institut für Volkskunde of Hamburg University. The blog’s ↑about is quite enlightening, but … Continue reading →
Call it vanity, utilitarian pragmatism, idealism, or anything in-between—the full spectrum is ready to be used for your judgement. Via the ↑Anthropological fields and subfields section of ↑Wikipedia’s article on anthropology I stumbled over the article ↑Cyber anthropology, which then … Continue reading →
↑The Information Society ↑21(↑4) is a special issue guest-edited by ↑Nancy K. Baym and dedicated to: “ICT research and disciplinary boundaries—is ‘Internet research’ a virtual field, a proto-discipline, or something else?” via entry at digital genres
Continue reading →Well, ↑Jan Chipchase‘s twin weblogs ↑future perfect (work) and ↑present imperfect (play) aren’t a chaotic information’n’media dumpster like cyberpunk-luminary ↑Bruce Sterling’s weblog is, but I didn’t really get their gist yet, though. Nevertheless the blogs mediate the ambience and feeling … Continue reading →
My job here at the university forces me to teach at least two courses every term. Here’s what I am going to publicly babble about during the upcoming summer-term (24 April to 29 July 2006): computergames With contemporary sociocultural anthropology’s … Continue reading →
Lorenz Khazaleh, the unstoppable force behind ↑anthropologi.info, has ↑interviewed Benedict Anderson, creator of the concept imagined communities—said concept time and again pops up in the vicinity of trying to understand online communities, hence I file this entry under cyberanthropology. via … Continue reading →
With the decline of Kulturhistorie in German sociocultural anthropology diachronic approaches to culture and society somehow went out of fashion, sometimes even got ostracised, and synchronical approaches started to reign supremely—became tacitly paradigmatic, became fashion. Speaking in a bold and … Continue reading →
The latest issue of Kommunikation@Gesellschaft is dedicated to ↑Exploring blogging: Social science approaches and perspectives of weblog-research [in German]. Since recently the online-journal Kommunikation@Gesellschaft is accompanied by the ↑k@g-Blog. via entry at zerzaust
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