Digital Anthropology

I wonder if the story is true. If so it's a highly evocative example of the digital preserving traces of the dead.

Here is a piece on the recent coup in Thailand and the way that social media are being targetted.

Thinking of gaming as an immersive, and aesthetic experience.

Following the article above I found another interesting article directly linked to gaming aesthetics and their introduction to the short film genre with the use of in-game footage (the festival was last year): http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-10/16/other-places-andy-kelly The Videos are worth a watch. Other articles on wired.co.uk are also worth a look. EDIT: http://www.otherplaces.co.uk/ ----> For a longer list of short beautiful videos consisting of ingame footage.

Futurist thinking on how to embed digital technologies into the experience of outdoor leisure time.

Report on the extent of data being gathered on US consumers and the lack of transparency and accountability in the "data brokerage" industry.

Interesting insights into gender switching on WoW.

Excellent talk on the state of the Internet, surveillance, privacy. The whole kit and kaboodle.

For those of you who are interested in the whole "breakup 2.0" subject.

Johanna shared this on StudIP but I thought it would be good to have it here as well. Thanks Johanna!

A link from the Taylor piece I just shared.

An interesting short article from anthropologist Erin Taylor on how the internet is affecting the representation and production of the self.

Part of a three part documentary on the plight of workers in contemporary Japan.

Long ago :D