Internet – ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY

CONCEPTUAL Challenges of Multi-Sited Ethnography

(Thanks again to Lorenz Khazaleh and his blog for notification of the release of the current issue of Anthropology News.) In a short commentary titled, “Practical Challenges of Multi-Sited Ethnography“, written by Ulla Berg in Anthropology News (May, 2008), there is one basic limitation that I want to highlight, and some of my commentary might […]

Internet Indigeneity & Anthropological Advocacy: text of a presentation at the University of South Florida (March 19, 2008)

INTERNET INDIGENEITY & ANTHROPOLOGICAL ADVOCACY Practicing Anti-Extinctionism, Diffusing Indigeneity, and Web Development as Action Research. For the past several years I have been working on two separate gaps in anthropological research and practice that would normally be viewed as separate and distinct. For some time now, speaking in ethnographic terms about either contemporary indigenous peoples […]

Questioning ICTs in the Classroom

In a March 11, 2008, article in Inside Higher Ed (“Harsh Realities About Virtual Ones“), Michael Bugeja (director of the Greenlee School at Iowa State University and author of Interpersonal Divide: The Search for Community in a Technological Age), argues that we need to be far more sceptical about calls for “engagement” using new communication […]