Larry Lessig on Scientific Publishing from Kerim Friedman on Vimeo. This is an edited version of Lawrence Lessig’s Lecture at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 18 April 2011. This lecture is released as a Creative Commons Attribution license. (It can be downloaded here.) I edited it to remove the introduction and the discussion of free culture in [...]Ah, The American Anthropological Association’s sale of our intellectual property to Wiley-Blackwell just keeps getting better and better. Yesterday @AAApubs, the official Twitter presence of the AAA publication program (as far as I can tell) tweeted that a new issue of Cultural Anthropology had been published which featured an interview between Jean Comaroff and David [...]How can anthropologists not be interested in the upcoming royal wedding? Centuries of globalization has wiped elaborate large-scale ritual off the face of the planet everywhere except the toffee-nosed bits of the UK. In my opinion, any one who loves a good public orchestration of symbols ought to be interested in this one. In fact, [...]
On March 15th, I moderated a panel at RISD called Picturing Soldiers: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Contemporary Soldier Photographs featuring photographers Lori Grinker, Jennifer Karady, Suzanne Opton, and Tim Hetherington, who as killed today in Libya. One of the amazing things about the work of each of these artists is how resonant it is [...]What are the central concerns or topics of cultural anthropology today? What are the main ideas and influences that constitute a middle ground which could unite the discipline? It’s a question that I’m guessing is on many people’s lips and it turns out there is an answer! I recently registered for the 2011 American Anthropological [...]Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson sounding a bit like cyber-utopian Clay Shirky: “groups of cooperators can out-compete groups of non-cooperators, thereby ensuring that their genes — including the ones that predispose them to cooperation — are handed down to future generations.” Its not kin but community that drives altruism–online and on the savannah. Or so they say…The city manager’s FY11 budget for Newport News has eliminated funding for our bookmobile. This was a great concern for all of us on the board of trustees for the city library system. We knew budget cuts were coming and worked hard to come up with a scheme that distributed cuts across departments so that [...]I haven’t seen the movie, but the trailer for “Human Terrain” looks intriguing.
: antropologi.info social and cultural anthropology in the news Blogroll Nordisk auf Deutsch Journals Bulletin Board Search Guestbook Contact 10 04 11 22:41:27, by Lorenz Categories : cyberanthropology internet Anthropologist : World of Warcraft can be good for your mental health The anthropologist and his virtual research team in World of Warcraft . Photo : Colorado State University It’s always refreshing when anthropologists challenge wideheld assumptions , for example about video- and onlinegames . Many video game studies focus on the negative and addictive aspects of game play . In two recent studies , Jeffrey Snodgrass and his team show , that video game playing can be healthy . In a press release the anthropologist : says The idea is that if you lose yourself , you escape . So it’sIt took me a long time, and a lot of experience, before I realized that I’m better at some kinds of fieldwork situations than others. I don’t know if there is any way to bypass this process of self-discovery, but I do think it might help those just starting out on their first research projects [...]