Archive for the “cyber anthropology” category

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 (…)

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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 (…)

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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 (…)

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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 (…)

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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 (…)

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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 (…)

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One Laptop Per Child Teams up with Microsoft

by Diana on May 16, 2008

Nice – seems a test I came up with the last semester for an ongoing social program is playing out as Microsoft is now teaming up with the OLPC group. – One of the tests I purposed to see if (…)

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Looking for people who participate in political disucssions on YouTube.

by Diana on May 2, 2008

You can take the survey here.