↑Edward Castronova, who rose to fame with his ↑Virtual worlds: A first hand account of market and society on the cyberian frontier (↵Castronova 2001—see also ↵Castronova 2003 and ↑terra nova) has written his first full-length monograph [↑Overview]: ↑CASTRONOVA, EDWARD. 2005. … Continue reading →
The Japanese term for mobile phone, keitai (roughly translated as “something you carry with you”), evokes not technical capability or freedom of movement but intimacy and portability, defining a personal accessory that allows constant social connection. Japan’s enthusiastic engagement with … Continue reading →
↑Frauke Lehmann, who will give a ↵presentation at my ↵cyberanthropology workshop, has put her M.A.-thesis (↵Lehmann 2004a) online under a CC-licence. The thesis is called ↑Entwickler Freier Software als soziale Formation [in German | .pdf | 873KB] and an English-language … Continue reading →
The forum for intercultural philosophy ↑polylog has a focus issue on ↑The Meanings of Violence and the Violence of Meanings. Included is an article by Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart, called ↑Violence: Conceptual Themes and the Evaluation of Actions. … Continue reading →
Two new publications from the extreme ends of the spectrum, but both touching my topic. Now guess which one of the two is closer to my mind and heart. KELTY, CHRISTOPHER M. 2005. Geeks, Social Imaginaries, and Recursive Publics. Cultural … Continue reading →
↑Portal MedienGewalt (in German) is a huge annotated and structured link collection on the ‘media and violence’ issue, including computergames, of course. Lots of academic links. via entry at 2R
Continue reading →↑Media Anthropology Network maintains the ↑Media Anthropology Bibliography. via entry at zerzaust
Continue reading →Note to me: Checking your own referrer-log ain’t just a bonfire of vanity, but sometimes indeed proofs to be useful. Anthropology student ↑Andrea Handl of Vienna urges me in her ↑blog entry to have a look on the dissertation by … Continue reading →
Well, back in the 1980s I was in the other camp, because I was a proud owner of a C64—and we somehow looked down on those having an Atari. But that is history, and exactly from that point of view … Continue reading →