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Anthropology agenda: A new site “Sapiens” (@sapiens_org) by The Wenner-Gren Foundation… “Best Cultural Anthropology Dissertations 2015…

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Dear Colleague, Chances are you’ve heard about SAPIENS, our new initiative to bring cutting-edge anthropological research to a broader public audience. Throughout its development, we’ve thought of SAPIENS as building on the tradition of Sol Tax andCurrent Anthropology. But whereas that journal’s launch marked a new era in scholarly communication, SAPIENS will provide a new … Read more

Journalism agenda: The Guardian works on Grid, an open-source image management system…

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Top 10 Media Publishers for July 2015: Complex Growing, BuzzFeed Keeps Stronghold  All Facebook Tinypass and Piano Media merge, and embrace “paywall” as a fluid concept  Nieman Journalism Lab by Laura Hazard Owen There’s more consolidation in the paywall platform business: Tinypass and Piano Media announced Tuesday that they are merging into a single company, Piano, which … Read more

Anthropology roundup: “2015 AAA Leadership Fellows Program…”The plight of the Assyrians…

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2015 AAA Leadership Fellows Program American Anthropological Association The AAA Leadership Fellows Program provides a unique opportunity for anthropologists early in their careers to learn about leadership opportunities within the association. Each year a group of three to five fellows will be paired with a mentor chosen from among AAA leadership. Mentors are available to fellows … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: people behind ‘anonymous’ data can be identified 90% of the time… “7 Things To Love About reddit’s First Transparency Report…

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  Researchers can identify people behind ‘anonymous’ data 90% of the time  Mashable! by Rex Santus Big data — huge data sets that are often made publicly available to anyone who wants to analyze it — are supposed to be anonymous. The idea is to leave out key pieces of information about the people involved, such … Read more

Eurosphere agenda: Grexit debate…

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Grexit divides politicians in Athens  EurActiv.com Eurozone membership is “irrevocable”, the European Commission said today (5 December), after media reports about Greece leaving the single currency that triggered strong reactions in Athens. EurActiv Greece reports.   MAIN FOCUS: EU Commission joins Grexit debate | 06/01/2015 euro|topics The EU Commission stressed on Monday that according to the EU treaties a … Read more

Anthropologists on full attack: “The Digital” as major theme at #AAA2014

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“The Digital” as major theme at #AAA2014 Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog by Matt Thompson As I settled in to browse the conference program for the 2014 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (just hours before I was scheduled to leave, natch), I was immediately struck by a common … Read more

Congratulations! Global Voices (@globalvoices) is 10 Years Old

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As a proud but not yet productive author of Global Voices, I would like to share the news with EFD readers… Global Voices Online – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Voices_Online Global Voices Online is an international network of bloggers, translators, and citizen journalists that follow, report, and summarize what is going on in the .   10 Years … Read more