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30 Dec 08

Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship

  • We define social network sites as web-based services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system. The nature and nomenclature of these connections may vary from site to site.
  • "Networking" emphasizes relationship initiation, often between strangers. While networking is possible on these sites, it is not the primary practice on many of them, nor is it what differentiates them from other forms of computer-mediated communication (CMC).
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14 Aug 08

Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » Examples or Evidence?

  • For people who see anthropology as a ‘science’, then ethnography is meant to provide data previously unavailable (to other anthropologists). This data then becomes evidence which can be used to confirm or deny what an anthropologist says about a place. Anthropologists present the data, make their argument, and let the reader judge whether the data supports their argument.
  • ‘ethnography by example’. This is a situation where someone has done fieldwork, realized something—we might even say had a personal transformation—and is now conveying what they have learned to the reader.
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Encounters and conflicts within and between disciplines: Experimental philosophy and ethnography (1.3) « OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY

  • X-Phi might do better by relabeling itself grounded philosophy, or G-Phi.
  • I think the “x-phi” attitude is part of the same zeitgeist that formed Savage Minds—the possibility of a new form of scholarly organization and interaction, of which blogs are an emblematic tool, that subverts and gets around the conservative edifice of the professionally organized disciplines, without being forced to drop out of academia.
11 Jun 08

Bonnie'sBlog: farewell to constructivism

  • analysis of relations between human agency and modern technology and a smart rap on the methodological knuckles for many of us
  • situated studies of local activity misapprehend contemporary technologies such as nuclear power, the automobile, and large information systems
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06 Apr 08

This Blog Sits at the: the Law & Order of Ethnography

  • anthropology is not really interested in the veracity of any
    historical particular but in the architecture of meaning in the context
    of which all particulars must take place.

This Blog Sits at the: A note on ethnography

  • This is after all precisely what is missing from the bargain basement
    ethnographers, the one's who practice brutish empiricism.  These
    ethnographers merely report what the
    respondent says, because they have no concepts with which to see the cultural significance of what the respondent says.  They are mirrors, nothing more. 
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