Rex thankfully has pointed us at a piece of software written by his friend John Burton: […] The program knows more about demographics than I do (the intricacies of birth spacing, for instance) and, most critically for me, the program … Continue reading →
The agenda of the workshop ‘cyberanthropology’ at the ↑Conference of the German Anthropological Association (GAA aka DGV) – Halle / Saale, 4th – 7th October 2005 finally is [almost] complete. The workshop will take place on Thursday, 06 October 2005. … Continue reading →
anthropological perspectives on mobile communication by Castulus Kolo Parallel to the diffusion of the Internet’s utilisation the mobile phone as a means of communication has spread all over the world even faster, and still unhampered. Diverse Internet services meanwhile have … Continue reading →
Actors, representations, and networks of the Chiapas conflict on the www by ↑Julia Pauli and ↑Michael Schnegg More than ten years ago, on 1 January 1994, the EZLN (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional) stormed and took official buildings and Municipios … Continue reading →
The significance of computer-mediated communication for the development of transnational communities by Heike Greschke More and more the Internet is used by transnational populations. For instance in order to maintain relationships to affiliates, to get up-to-date information on the region … Continue reading →
Online games as an example by ↑Michel Nachez and ↑Patrick Schmoll The presentation aims at depicting a cybercommunity inside which we have done participant observation. The community’s members have organised themselves online and have created a shared description or account. … Continue reading →
by Frauke Lehmann Free software (also Open Source) is a comparatively uncommon subject of research for sociocultural anthropology. Those ‘into’ free software constitute a social formation which almost exclusively is to be located on the Internet. The individual members are … Continue reading →
The website of the ↑Elliott Avedon Museum and Archive of Games at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, meanwhile exists since 12 years and consists out of 700+ pages. It offers a ‘virtual visit’ to the museum and much more, … Continue reading →
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
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