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• Book: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 430
  Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out Kids Living and Learning with New Media (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning) An examination of young people’s everyday new media practices—including video-game playing, text-messaging, digital media production, and ...
  16 hours ago

• 0.185: Terms of Incorporation, Concepts of Domination

  
  OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY — Authority: 120
  Phrases such as “ decolonizing anthropology ”* and “ anthropology and the colonial encounter ” have become salient in anthropology especially since they are the titles of two of the better known, most widely quoted books on the subject. What subject? That is what is lacking clarity, because presumably the ...
  2 days ago

• Meet Kamala Visweswaran: Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies at the University of Texas

  
  AAUW Dialog — Authority: 469
  In March 2009 nine scholars conducting research on India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan spent a day trying to envision a way to demilitarize South Asia and help the region move forward peacefully. The group published a report, Reframing a Regional Approach to South Asia: Demilitarization, Development, and Sustainable ...
  4 days ago

• Radio Radio

  
  JacoBlog - Jacobs Media's Blog — Authority: 123
  Old friend and veteran rock programmer, Ron Nenni, sent me an eye-opening chart, courtesy of the Silicon Alley Insider .  As you can see below, a new Nielsen analysis of a media use study conducted by the Council for Research Excellence shows that radio out-reaches the Internet on a daily basis. The ...
  4 days ago

• Resisting the urge to gossip

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  Its easy to get caught up in gossip. A friend or colleague starts talking about someone you both know. She lays out some juicy information you havent heard before, almost baiting you to chime in. Whether its true or not, you reflexively up the ante by spilling a rumor you recently heard about that person, too. Later, ...
  5 days ago

• Tribal Cultures in South Asia

  
  GSA Library Art and Design News — Authority: 126
  Rare images showing rituals, festivals and everyday life for isolated tribes in the Himalayas are to be preserved online by JISC and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Highlights include the the shaman-led rituals and acrobatics of the Apatani tribe. These extraordinary moments were photographed by a ...
  5 days ago

• Food Ethnography on a Budget: Cambodia I - Rice

  
  The Baltimore Snacker — Authority: 417
  My first excursion into this foodie self-education is an excursion to Cambodia, by way of the Elephant Walk Cookbook . The authors, Katherine Neustadt and Longteine de Monteiro, compose a cookbook that is a primer both on the recipes served at the three Elephant Walk restaurants in the Boston area, and on the ...
  6 days ago

• Using ethnography to improve user experience

  
  cxpartners — Authority: 103
  Ethnography is a research method that can be used to find out how to make your brand more appealing to your customers. In this blog Bonny looks at how cxpartners use ethnography to provide insights in to customer journeys.
  6 days ago

• Starting a new project...

  
  The Baltimore Snacker — Authority: 417
  Just an update between too infrequent posts. Despite very supportive family and friends (thanks, everybody), the stress, disappointment and frustration of job searches and whatnot is getting to me. Because of that, I havent had a lot of money to spend eating out lately. Nevertheless, I am starting a new project to ...
  1 week ago

• Collaborative project with CSU Anthropology

  
  More to Explore — Authority: 122
  by Terry Burton, Digital Media Coordinator We’re very excited to be working with the Anthropology Department at Colorado State University on a collaborative project to delve deeper into the information we have here at the Museum about historical and contemporary Native American life in this area. This fall, ...
  1 week ago

• As products become more interactive, the focus shifts to the psychological

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 430
  “As products become more interactive, the focus shifts to the psychological,” argues Gentry Underwood, who focuses on social media and collaborative software at IDEO, in a guest article for Core77. “And with the networking of devices together, we see yet another shift—this time towards the sociological and ...
  1 week ago

• ICT Diaries: Capturing the Evolving Nature of ICT Usage

  
  Blurring Borders — Authority: 412
  I recently finished and highly recommend Portfolios of the Poor , a book examining the financial lives of dozens of impoverished families in Bangladesh, India and South Africa. The understanding of how the world’s poor survive on less than $2 per day was captured through an intensive research process that spent a ...
  1 week ago

• Human behavior: the key to future tech developments

  
  elearningpost — Authority: 117
  CNN reports on the increasing awareness and demand for digital ethnography education.“As trained observers of how people in a society live, ethnographers can help companies figure out what people need and then work with designers to meet those needs with new (or more often tweaked) products and services. In a world ...
  1 week ago

• 0.189: Stanley Diamond & Claude Lévi-Strauss on the Nature and Future of Anthropology

  
  OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY — Authority: 120
  Two relatively short articles from the 1960s that I found useful, especially in connection with the previous post, provide a number of insights that exceeded the scope of that post. I want to share some of my “notes and quotes” from those two articles, with limited commentary aside from my headings — think of ...
  1 week ago

• UX of ITV: The User Experience and Interactive TV (or Lets Stamp Out Bad Remote Controls)

  
  Interactive Multimedia Technology — Authority: 429
  I prefer to watch our flat-panel HDTV in the dark, and usually I watch something Ive DVRd.  Because of the nature of my remote control, I often have to interrupt the immersive experience, turn... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  1 week ago

• 0.19: Questions about Colonialism and Anthropology: Epistemology, Methodology, and Politics

  
  OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY — Authority: 120
  Two Sides of the Same Coin Anthropology might look it came to us with a dual consciousness. On one side, a consciousness influenced by ideals of science and objectivity, driven to developing a commanding knowledge about human others. On the other side, a consciousness of itself as a creature of imperialism, guided ...
  1 week ago

• Worksite Gossip — Aid or Bane?

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 562
  A new research study looks at worksite gossip from a neutral perspective and discovers the practice can offer clues to power and influence not found on organizational charts. Indiana University researchers discover gossip in the workplace can be a weapon in reputational warfare or a gift. Their study, published in ...
  1 week ago

• BBC iPlayer: The Media Show: 28/10/2009

  
  Martin Stabe — Authority: 478
  Includes an interesting segment with Dr Natalie Fenton from Goldsmiths University "who argues that instead of democratising information, the internet has narrowed our horizons."
  1 week ago

• Ethnographies of Neoliberalism--Now Available

  
  Penn Press Log — Authority: 126
  Ethnographies of Neoliberalism Edited by Carol J. Greenhouse 376 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4192-1 | $55.00 | £36.00 What happens when citizens are refashioned as consumers? Drawing on diverse disciplines and ethnographies from five continents, this collection considers neoliberal reform from ...
  1 week ago

• The Anthropology of Wall Street

  
  Economix — Authority: 735
  A new book provides an ethnography of bankers.
  1 week ago

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