Here is a snippet from the recent ↑interview with William Gibson, which Bryan Alexander (who ↵pointed me to it) ↵liked especially: It’s harder to imagine the past that went away than it is to imagine the future. What we were … Continue reading →
Somehow this one has escaped my attention till today—unfortunately some paywall, moving wall, system bug, or whatyouhave bars my access to it, although my university has subscribed to that publication and pays for the access. Anyhow, it goes together well … Continue reading →
welcome to the 21st century Since quite a time ↵I was eagerly awaiting ‘↑Coming of age in Second Life: An anthropologist explores the virtually human‘ by ↑Tom Boellstorff—it just arrived with yesterday’s snail-mail, so I had not yet the … Continue reading →
Dear ↑Mr. President, Come take a walk with me … ;-) ‘Tis a strange realm, cyberspace. Since a couple of years here at ↑Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), the institution where I am working—or am pretending to do so, there is a … Continue reading →
↑Fabian Klenk has put his Magister Artium thesis online at ↑his site [scroll down for download link] and ↑at mana’o [1.38MB | .pdf]. KLENK, FABIAN. 2007. Ethnologie der modernen Technologien: Das Mobiltelefon als kulturelles Artefakt. Magister Artium thesis Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München.
Continue reading →There really is no use in having manuscripts merrily rotting away in drawers and on HDDs. So here are some pieces of mine, on cyberanthropology, appropriation, and game modding: KNORR, ALEXANDER. 2008. ↓maxmod—eine Ethnographie der cyberculture: Exposé des Habilitationsprojektes [128KB … Continue reading →
Whenever new means of computer-mediated communication (CMC) appear on the scene, they immediately are tried out by the [Max Payne/Alan Wake] community and quickly get integrated into its interaction-infrastructure. The environment within which the community exists is not formed … Continue reading →
According to Sterling (1993) it was John Perry Barlow who first adopted Gibson’s concept for use of all kinds of perceived technological spaces. Barlow stated that cyberspace “is where you are when you’re talking on the telephone” (Rucker, Sirius, and … Continue reading →
The paper I presented at the workshop ↑Understanding media practices at the ↑9th EASA Biennial Conference which took place from September 18th through September 21st 2006 in Bristol, UK, now is online at my own server: ↑“The online nomads … Continue reading →