CIA Director John Brennan emails WikiLeaks Today, 21 October 2015 and over the coming days WikiLeaks is releasing documents from one of CIA chief John Brennan’s non-government email accounts. Brennan used the account occasionally for several intelligence related projects. John Brennan WikiLeaks Is Publishing the CIA Director’s Hacked Emails Wired Top Stories by Andy Greenberg Days … Read more
Why the Super Bowl Matters, Especially to Sociologists Ethnography.com by Marianne Paiva I think I’ve mentioned before, but I really don’t understand the lure of watching sports on TV. Or in person. Or from a skybox in a stadium with 50,000 other people. Generally, I don’t understand watching sports. So when I moved to … Read more
“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
EFF Relaunches Surveillance Self-Defense EFF.org Updates by Jillian York We’re thrilled to announce the relaunch of Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD), our guide to defending yourself and your friends from digital surveillance by using encryption tools and developing appropriate privacy and security practices. The site launches today in English, Arabic, and Spanish, with more languages coming soon. The Younger … Read more
The Tenure System Is Broken This article originally appeared in Inside Higher Ed. E-Reading Rises as Device Ownership Jumps Three in ten adults read an e-book last year; half own a tablet or e-reader E-Books Aren’t Going to Make Print Obsolete Anytime Soon For all the talk about print books being replaced by digital books, … Read more
We’re TPP Activists: Reddit Asked Us Everything As another of round of secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) meetings began in Salt Lake City this week, EFF joined Knowledge Ecology International, Public Citizen, Techdirt, andOpen Media, in a Reddit AMA (?Ask Me Anything?) to answer users’ questions about the leaked TPP ?Intellectual Property? chapter. Alleged Silk Road founder?s matter-of-fact journal details accounting, bug fixes and murders Details … Read more
Game-based learning: latest evidence and future directions Source: National Foundation for Educational Research (UK) From Press Release: The role of video games in teaching and learning is a source of debate among many educators, researchers and in the popular press. Detractors and advocates have been discussing the influences and the potentials of video games for … Read more
Labor unrest on Everest is older than you might think from FP Passport by Marya Hannun The thin air and vertiginous slopes that exist at 20,000-plus feet above sea level on Mount Everest may not make for the ideal battleground — but they certainly make for a captivating one. So on April 27, when … Read more
Eco and Pamuk discuss being a novelist from Hurriyet Daily News Two eminent novelists, Umberto Eco and Orhan Pamuk, met in Istanbul on April 9. The authors told their stories about how they became writers. Against Open Access: A change of heart from Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology ? A Group Blog … Read more
White House promises open access to all federally funded research from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Jim Dezazzo sez, John Holdren, Obama’s science advisor, issued a directive on Friday to all research funding agencies to develop plans to make the results of federally-funded research publically available free of charge within 12 months of publication. It … Read more
Check out the comments in this post: Anthropology: The landmark books Last year I posted an open thread called ?Anthropology: Five Books,? in which I asked readers to list the five books they feel best represent the discipline. The responses were great. I think it?s time to try another open thread along similar … Read more
Citizenship after orientalism – an introduction from open Democracy News Analysis – by Engin Isin Introducing this week’s guest theme. Engin Isin holds a Chair in Citizenship and is Professor of Politics in Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University. He has published widely on the politics of … Read more
Keith Hart and Online Anthropology from Anthropology Report by Jason Antrosio Back in anthropology graduate school, I read (but did not fully understand) Keith Hart?s Heads or Tails? Two Sides of the Coin. Now, over 20 years after that publication?and over 40 years after his first publications?Keith Hart is a force in online anthropology and … Read more
Anthropologies #12: Occupy & Open Access from ethnografix by Ryan Anderson Anthropology & Occupy (anthropologies) from ethnografix by Ryan Anderson [Note: This is a post that I wrote for the latest edition of anthropologies that tries to review some of the anthropological involvement and reactions to the Occupy Wall Street protests and movement] New … Read more
the best alternative seems to be this: http://gen.lib.rus.ec but not good enough… update: Some friends recommended this site. I haven’t checked it yet though… http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks update2: another seemingly working alternative: http://en.bookfi.org/ update3: Dear Kaan Öztürk has posted a “requiem” for library nu in Turkish. have a look. I found 3 more alternative sites from that post: http://www.libgen.info/ http://lib.org.by/ http://gen.lib.rus.ec/ Book … Read more