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At first I did not intend to comment on the election of the new pope, but simultaneously I hung around in an IRC-channel of my community. Now I just have to show off how fast cyberspace reacts to breaking news.
Continue reading →At first I did not intend to comment on the election of the new pope, but simultaneously I hung around in an IRC-channel of my community. Now I just have to show off how fast cyberspace reacts to breaking news.
Continue reading →↑Unrealised Moscow features never-built architectural projects for Moscow from the 1930s to the early 1950s. The site carries beautiful concept-drawings accompanied by comprehensive descriptions. Simply a great resource for alternate-reality computergames and mods. via entry at hinterding
Continue reading →There is a new anthropological group-weblog. The ↑savage minds behind the accordingly named endeavor are ↑Alex Golub, ↑Antti Leppänen, ↑Chris Kelty, ↑Kerim Friedman, ↑Nancy Leclerc, and ↑Dustin M. Wax. ↑anthropologi.info kindly ↑commented: “Great! A new anthropology group blog! Something like … Continue reading →
I just spent quite some time at ↑Replacementdocs, clicking through 66 pages containing 1352 game-manuals for PC alone (all in .pdf format—many more for other platforms), and in the end downloaded 52. “replacementdocs.com pledges to bring you only high quality … 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 →
German sociocultural anthropology indeed is engaged in contemporary issues! On 4th of July 2005 the authors Prof. Dr. Nina Glick Schiller, Dr. Data Dea, and [my friend! :-)] Markus Höhne (Ph.D. candidate) have submitted a report to the ↑Max Planck … Continue reading →
Sometimes my babbling indeed hits furtile ground, so I had to update my blogroll: ↑anthronaut [astronauts, argonauts—got it?] is a weblog by “an Anthropology undergraduate student at the LMU Munich. Starting from July 17th 2005, I´ll spend two months working … Continue reading →
Long before I encountered gamemodding I already had fallen in love with desktopmodding. The better part of which can more accordingly be called -tweaking, as most of this discipline’s alterations do not dig too deep. Instead they scratch the … Continue reading →
The game ↑Alan Wake still is far away from going gold—therefore it quite naturally can not be modified yet. Nevertheless the community already has come into existence and its members don’t idle the day away. The until now released … 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 →