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07 Nov 09

Reconstruction 6.4 (2006)

By danah boyd. A Blogger's Blog: Exploring the Definition of a Medium.
This paper begins by exploring how tool developers, media, researchers, and practitioners have conceptualized blogging. Blogs are often seen as a genre of computer-mediated communic

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blogging ethnography genre

  • A Blogger's Blog: Exploring the Definition of a Medium
  • blogs are more akin to paper than to diaries
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08 Oct 09

Material World: Coming of Age in Digital Anthropology

  • Malaby’s last page and its discussion of the work of Sahlins on the relationship between history/structure and event/contingency.
  • trajectory from Mauss to Bourdieu on habitus, which increasingly also focused upon structure, this time in the order or things or the order of practice, and disposition in its own tension with contingency.
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07 Oct 09

Visiting Fellows (VKS)

  • The dissertation pays particular attention to the way that digital spaces and artifacts are incorporated into these performances, transgressing boundaries between digital and physical space, representation and performance, and private and public interactions, among others.
15 May 09

new ethnography podcast « another anthro blog

  • As for separating my online identities… It’s an interesting process. I think it works rather well and it has interesting consequences.

    One example is that I can separate my activities.
12 May 09

Towards an Ontological Anthropology | Savage Minds

  • ethnographers have to do away with a priori distinction between persons and things; even hybridity as a concept would not do, because there is already an implicit ‘presumption of an initial separation.
  • they have not taken their informants’ actions into account in order to ‘explain’ them away; they have accepted the categories – or the absence of any categories – that their informants provided, and followed them wherever they led.
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