↑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 →
Montgomery McFate’s article “Anthropology and counterinsurgency” re-triggered quite some debate within anthropology. See e.g. Dustin Wax’s entry at Savage Minds and the appending discussion [references below]. Now McFate has re-surfaced and last monday spoke at the Women in International Security … 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 →
One of the key moments along my path ‘through’ sociocultural anthropology was when several years ago I listened to ↑Kurt Beck‘s presentation on the cultural appropriation of the diesel-engine in the Sudan (meanwhile published as ↵Beck 2001). Diesel-powered pumps … 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 →
The TAZ carries an ↑article on anthropologist Anna Schöne, who does Ph.D.-level fieldwork on Berlin’s techno[music]-scene. This statement of hers caught my eye: “Das Spezifische an der Subkultur ist, dass sie das, was unsere Kultur ausmacht, bewusst macht, ausdrückt und … 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 →