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Anthropology and Technology Research Group
The Research Group is currently organized as a reading and discussion group.
We meet weekly to discuss readings on anthropology and technology. Our focus is around cyberspace, data, virtual worlds, and social media as well as computing, information and biological technologies. The group also works to assist members with issues around IRB approval for internet, virtual world and technology related research projects, as well as other challenges arising from members research.
For the spring 2013 semester we are meeting Monday evenings, 18:00 (6 pm) at Hunter College for 1 to 1.5 hours. Reading lists and materials are shared on our blog and by email on or before Wednesday of the week prior. Please contact @omanreagan if you are interested in joining or attending a meeting. Interdisciplinary social scientists, humanities scholars and others with interests in technology are welcome.
The group was founded by three graduate students at Hunter College who are doing ethnographic fieldwork and writing cultural anthropology theses on issues of technology.
Recent group activity
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Anders Wallace started the topic Software for building online courses in the forum
Anthropology and Technology Research Group 5 months, 2 weeks agoHello, I'm wondering if anyone can recommend (or has heard of) software for building courses that can be distributed and accessed online? My priorities are ease-of-use (building short, independent models nested within a course), functionality (able to embed video-clips), and ease of distribution.
Many thanks!
Anders
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Anna Schwartz started the topic Tell your Teaching Story and win $50 Gift Card! in the forum
Anthropology and Technology Research Group 10 months agoTell your Teaching Story and win a $50 gift card.
Click on this link (www.tinyurl.com/GSTATeacherSurvey) and contribute your experience to the story building around the nation. College teaching is being pushed more and more onto graduate students!
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Anna Schwartz joined the group
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Michael Oman-Reagan wrote a new blog post Week 2 Articles: Spring 2013 in the group
Anthropology and Technology Research Group: 4 years, 5 months agoThe following articles are for our reading group meeting on Monday, February 25. We are not meeting on the 18th as CUNY is closed.
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Friedman, Elisabeth Jay. 2007. Lesbians in (cyber) space: the politics of […]
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Michael Oman-Reagan wrote a new blog post Hyperlinking as Copyright Infringement in the group
Anthropology and Technology Research Group: 4 years, 5 months agoThe debates around whether hyperlinking is copyright infringement are important for digital anthropology and all scholars. This case before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) centers on the question […]
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Michael Oman-Reagan wrote a new blog post Stefana Broadbent: How the Internet enables intimacy in the group
Anthropology and Technology Research Group: 4 years, 5 months agoIn our meeting on Monday, February 11, we talked about the perception that computer mediated communication is distancing, and that it interrupts social practices. Alissa brought up a TED talk she’d seen making the […]
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Michael Oman-Reagan wrote a new blog post Android Theater & The Uncanny Valley in the group
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Michael Oman-Reagan wrote a new blog post Illustrated Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology in the group
Anthropology and Technology Research Group: 4 years, 5 months ago
Wired reports this week on the Illustrated Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology. Written by Amber Case, the founder of cyborganthropology.com, the dictionary illustrates and defines 50 topics with artwork by Maggie […] -
Michael Oman-Reagan wrote a new blog post Week 1 Articles: Spring 2013 in the group
Anthropology and Technology Research Group: 4 years, 5 months agoThe following articles are to be read for our meeting on Monday, February 11.
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Culture of the Cloud
Boellstorff, Tom. 2010. Culture of the Cloud. Journal of Virtual Worlds Research 2(5): 4 – 9.
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