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Over the past couple of weeks there has been much discussion online of the Taliban’s Youtube channel: Istiqlalmedia. The greatest amount of content on that site is, arguably, that generated by a mass of mostly hostile comments by YouTube users who in many cases would like to see the channel deleted. Right now, by any […]
Read More…The focus of this bibliography is on news articles, primarily. While not a complete list of every article online, video, document and blog post published on what some have called the “Iranian Twitter Revolution,” this is a fairly representative list of many of the more prominent sources and interesting perspectives, and it may prove useful […]
Read More…Which Revolution? If the headlines had spoken of a “Twitter revolution in Canada,” a North American society with very widespread broadband Internet access, and almost complete Internet penetration, and one of the highest rates of personal computer ownership, one would have still needed to be very skeptical: 74% of Canadians surveyed have never even heard […]
Read More…One of the side benefits of my recent participation in the CASCA-AES conference in Vancouver was to learn that a phrase I developed as a short hand for some of my own work, “open source cinema,” was a phrase already in use, referring to a concept already in circulation, and indeed an entire site is […]
Read More…Vehicles captured my attention on several occasions while I was in Vancouver, with its “sky train,” compact taxis, cruise ships, yachts, and buses — most were vehicles for commerce, tourism, and leisure. During my first night I was drawn to loud music blaring several stories below from what must have been the longest stretch limousine […]
Read More…Unlike my previous post on Google Insight statistics for anthropology searches, this time I am not making the mistake of closing the pages without preserving a link so that others can investigate the searches. Having conducted a number of queries using Google Insights, I realize that I risk becoming addicted to this service, with the […]
Read More…Google Insights reveals some interesting comparative data on the popularity trends of various terms and authors in anthropology. I have only scratched the surface, not having conducted very refined comparisons of specific anthropological concepts, theories, schools, etc., although presumably all of these statistical comparisons can now be done. The statistics generated by Google Insights simply […]
Read More…After an absence of more than three months, it is time for another installment of Monday Morning Madness. The idea of “translating” another language into your own, by assuming that words that sound the same as words in your language are the same, is not a surprising one — the results can be disastrous, or […]
Read More…GazaTalk has published a list of resources and suggestions under the heading of How to Resist Online, useful both for those who have questions about how they can go about doing so, and for those who are generally interested in learning about how new media are deployed in the battle against the Israeli state’s and […]
Read More…As the new year begins with a renewal of the obsessive media attention to “terror” and “Muslim extremists,” one of the two terrors mentioned in the previous post ending 2008, one of the novelties has been the expansion and projection of the conflict into new media like Twitter. I am still new to Twitter, which […]
Read More…It was in 2003, I believe, that I was sent a DVD of Avatara by the filmmakers, who asked that I write a review about it. In my mind, I decided that this was an ethnographic film of a virtual world, and I wrote in that vein. Actually, Donato Mancini, one of the filmmakers with […]
Read More…For anyone who might be interested, I have launched the website for the revised version of my course, Cyberspace Ethnography, which I am offering this semester. I have made numerous changes to the previous version, and I am seriously looking forward to the outcomes in this course. The last time I offered the course, many […]
Read More…Second Life Left Unity organized two impressive protests and information centre in Second Life in solidarity with the Greek protests. The SL protests occurred on December 14 and 15, and were documented with some striking high quality photos. SLLU created an interactive media centre, shown above, which also doubled as a protest site, combining information […]
Read More…O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, Where thou may’st warble, eat and dwell. — Lord Alfred Tennyson Continuing from the last post on the subject of Blackbird, a new Internet browser ostensibly designed to cater for African American interests, it seems […]
Read More…Yes, there is a browser for black people: Blackbird: Blackbird was developed on the simple proposition that we, as the African American community, can make the Internet experience better for ourselves and, in doing so, make it better for everyone. Primarily we believe that the Blackbird application can make it easier to find African American […]
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