Local conflicts go online by ↑Birgit Bräuchler In contrast to conventional (mass)media the so called ‘new media’—among them the most prominent Internet—stand out due to criteria like interaction, multimediality, transcending location, and networking. Because of the named criteria the Internet … Continue reading →
Now one can study game design in Germany: ↑Computervisualistik. Very interesting is the ↑bibliography acompanying the lecture ‘computergames’. Deutschlandfunk has an ↑Interview on Computervisualistik—↑published at Spiegel Online, too. [Everything in German.] via entry at 2R
Continue reading →“The ↑Center for Internet Research and Media Integration (CIM) has been founded on July, 29 2005 at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich. The objective is to support interdisciplinary research projects in the communication industries and their transformation through digital … Continue reading →
Today I augmented the very first chapter of maxmod’s projected chapters, which is called ↵access—straightforwardedly worded: I beefed it up without adding much content, well there’s some new text, and now I am pimping it shamelessly. It may not have … Continue reading →
out of the box—anthropology put to use Not just since the ↵gates for anthropology were unshuttered at Redmond, ↑corporate anthropology and applied anthropology is striving. And not since just yesterday parts of anthropology are appropriated by kin and not so … 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 →
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 →
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 →
An old, I even may say: a founding member of cyberanthropology as an anthropological enterprise in Munich, has re-entered the scene. Some days ago he visited me at my office, and I have to say he really has his hands … Continue reading →
a superheroes conference At my institute there once was an anthropological project on superhero-comics and the like in the making, but never took off—I will dig up the material from the past and prey on it. Now a conference on … Continue reading →