Archive for the “cyber anthropology” category
On being an Anthropologist…
by Diana on October 26, 2011
When responding to an email last night I made the statement, “Anthropologists and our discipline are traditionally misunderstood, which is ironic in that it is our jobs to make others easier to understand.” Followed a few sentence later by, “I (…)
What the heck is Cyber Anthropology?
by Diana on March 3, 2011
An interview with me at last years SXSWi. It explains a bit about what my take on Cyber Anthro is, how I do it, why I do it, and how I got here. Hope to see a few of you (…)
Not quite dead yet…
by Diana on April 16, 2010
It’s only a flesh wound! I mean, that’s how the last month of the semester should start out right? Biting knees and all that jazz… *Shout! Shout! Let it all out!*
Saturday Morning @ SXSW
by Diana on March 13, 2010
First stop was a panel on IA sketching, but of course it was at capacity. I really do need to start getting to panels earlier. [Must make opening remarks by Danah Boyd at 2 today!!] Since I was already on (…)
How to get a number for that which can’t easily be counted
by Diana on February 28, 2010
During this next part of my research process I will be posting a survey available to all Fedora contributors. Luckily, this part of the participation process requires no signatures! So, those of you who were unable to participate in the (…)
Fedora: On Research Design
by Diana on February 8, 2010
Research design in anthropology is a tricky thing. It is the part of the process you do before you do anything else, and thus you do before you have any real sense of the situation in which you will be (…)
Fedora: Still looking for Interview Participants!
by Diana on January 28, 2010
If you would like to participate in the interview portion of the Fedora research project I am current conducting, please visit my informational post on it here! I need at least 10 more willing participants by the end of next (…)
Digital Humanities and the case for Critical Commons
by Diana on January 28, 2010
An amusing look at the influx and seemingly sudden popularity of digital scholarship [Youtube Video] in academia as well as the rise of open courseware as an alternative means of education, by CriticalCommons.org.
Fedora – FLOSS Web Based Survey Tools?
by Diana on January 25, 2010
After some great suggestions provided by a couple of people on alternative FLOSS tools for conducting interviews online, I thought I would ask the community if there were any preferred web based FLOSS survey tools available? I’ll be constructing a (…)
External Validation and the Online World, the means for oversharing – afternoon musings…
by Diana on June 4, 2008
Rather than considering ourselves beautiful because we ‘feel’ beautiful (internal), we require external validation of our beauty. This usually consists of seeing ourselves in a mirror, a photograph, or hearing that we are beautiful as stated by someone external from (…)