found in McLuhan’s “Medium Is The Massage” LP
by Michael Wesch Prof. Wesch: presented at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008. This was tons of fun to present. I decided to forgo the PowerPoint and instead worked with students to prepare over 40 minutes of video for the 55 minute presentation. This is the result. more info: http://mediatedcultures.net *** Cultural Anthropology?s Virtual … Read more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQTxZ_zxAv8 The Rocketboom Institute for Internet Studies explains how YouTube makes it easy to dispute a wrongful copyright claim. For more information on the YouTube takedown process, visit the Electronic Frontier Foundation at http://meme.ly/DisputeYoutube For more on Fair Use in Online Video see the Center for Social Media at http://meme.ly/KnowFairUse To read more about the … Read more
[ad#Nokia N8] In this exclusive preview the Nokia N8 is showcased by hand freestyler Max Vlassenko. [ad#Samsung 3D TV] A new dimension in television By: Samsung UK [ad#Hadouken!] Hadouken!’s James Smith and Alice Spooner meet Matt Edmondson in a shopping centre to test their appeal with a brand new audience and further the band’s career. … Read more
The Berkman Center is pleased to announce the release of a new paper exploring U.S. political blogs:
A Tale of Two Blogospheres: Discursive Practices on the Left and the Right, by Yochai Benkler, Aaron Shaw, and Victoria Stodden
This paper compares the practices of discursive production and participation among top U.S. political blogs on the left, right, and center during the summer of 2008 and, based on qualitative coding of the top 155, finds evidence of an association between ideological affiliation and the technologies, institutions, and practices of participation across political blogs. Sites on the left adopt more participatory technical platforms; are comprised of significantly fewer sole-authored sites; include user blogs; maintain more fluid boundaries between secondary and primary content; include longer narrative and discussion posts; and (among the top half of the blogs in the papers’ sample) more often use blogs as platforms for mobilization as well as discursive production.
The variations observed between the left and right wings of the U.S. political blogosphere provide insights into how varied patterns of technological adoption and use within a single society may produce distinct effects on democracy and the public sphere. The study also suggests that the prevailing techniques of domain-based link analysis used to study the political blogosphere to date may have fundamental limitations.
To read the full abstract and download the paper, visit http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/publications/2010/Tale_Two_Blogospheres_Discursive_Practices_Left_Right
Also, The Nation has published a piece about the study, as well as an interview with Yochai Benkler.
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Welcome to another EASA Media Anthropology Network e-seminar! Over the next two weeks we?ll be discussing through this mailing list a working paper by Minu Thomas and Sun Sun Lim entitled ?Migrant workers? use of ICTs for interpersonal communication ? The experience of female domestic workers in Singapore.? You will find the abstract below and can download the full paper here: http://www.media-anthropology.net/thomas_lim_migrant_workers_ICT.pdf
A workshop on Turkey internet related 5651 article is taking place. This seems to be a major event as can be seen from the impressive list of participants. Major actors of Turkish internet infrastructure… Still, the official website is only in Turkish…
In other news:
AP Stylebook Officially Changes “Web site” to “website” from Writerswrite.com’s Writer’s Blog The story of how Facebook and Twitter users lobbied the AP Stylebook to change ?web site? to ?website? from Bloggasm by Simon On the day the AP Stylebook announced it would change the requirement that its users refer to online destinations as ?web … Read more
Online Journalists Make Pulitzer History from Mashable! by Jolie O’Dell Today, a cartoonist for SFGate.com, the online arm of the San Francisco Chronicle, and an investigative journalist at ProPublica won Pulitzer Prizes for their work. The reason we?ve dubbed these wins ?history-making? is because this is the first time any online-only publication has won the … Read more
found in Rebecca Ward Looking For a New Assistant Editor from Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology ? A Group Blog by jay sosa Dear Readers, As you may have noticed, the weekly Savage Minds Around the Web feature has become more sporadic than weekly, which means it is time for me to step … Read more
Adobe: Go Screw Yourself Apple from TechCrunch by Jason Kincaid Yesterday, Apple made a change to its iPhone SDK developer agreement that has left many developers furious: it banned ?applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer?. While many other tools may be affect, the most visible target of the … Read more
Anthropologists Speak Out Against Human Terrain Systems & War on Terror
Made by Harjant Gill
Dept of Anthroppology
American University
The Digital Economy bill, known on Twitter as #debill, passed today. The short version is that this thing makes the DMCA look like a warmup act. Cory’s traveling, but you can expect his thoughts here soon. For now, Mike Butcher sums up the danger eloquently:
Stef sez, “As we all know, the UK Digital Economy Bill passed last night. Watching the debates, one of the things that shocked me was the repeated displays of ignorance of the technical and copyright issues by MPs on all sides. The Second, and Third readings are now online at TheyWorkForYou.com. I thought it might be good to use the annotations features to correct some of the more glaring and bizarre howlers. The annotated debates will stand as a record of this sad democratic failure. Remember to keep it polite and technical – MPs are professionally inured to plain abuse – We, the internet, clearly have a job of education to do.”
The Digital Economy Bill survived the wash up with Tory support and has now been passed. The low turnout at the second reading (6 April; the day the election date was set) and consideration of amendments (7 April) has received heavy criticism. Below is a selection of coverage of and responses to the passing of the Bill, enjoy!