Since anti-vax activists lose on the science and are small in number, they have increasingly begun to rely on social media to inflate their presence. Twitter hashtags are particularly powerful because they transcend organized groups and the standard friend or follower relationships. More than any other social network, Twitter helps citizens to connect and organize in the real world even if they aren’t part of the same physical communities—anyone can participate in a conversation simply by following and using a hashtag.
Anti-Vaxxers Are Using Twitter to Manipulate a Vaccine Bill | WIRED - 1 views
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in December 2014, “hashtag organizers” began to publish nightly “Trends and Tips” (TaTips) instruction videos on YouTube, containing instructions on what to tweet to advance the cause, and to improve the SEO of “vaccine questioning” websites. There are over 150 of these videos now—a testament to how much the anti-vax movement prioritizes Twitter.
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n one unfortunate video, a movement leader encouraged supporters to use Twitter to harass and stalk a lobbyist, who has since filed police reports. In a very recent creation, that same leader excoriates her “Twitter army” for diluting the power of the #cdcwhistleblower movement by creating their own hashtags rather than using the ones they’ve been assigned. She also requests that the entire network tweet at Assembly representatives to inform them that their political careers will be over if they vote in favor of SB277.
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Just one example of the political manipulation of social media.
Bibliography: Digital ethnography - Social Media and Human Rights - 0 views
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A handy bibliography for digital anthropology methods
The Emerging Science of Human Computation | MIT Technology Review - 0 views
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Turning crowds into computers.
First Demonstration of a Surveillance Camera Powered by Ordinary Wi-Fi Broadcasts | MIT... - 0 views
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Wirelessly powering the internet of things.
Dozens of protesters rally against Facebook's 'fake name' policy at Menlo Park headquar... - 0 views
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Mentioned this issue in the seminar yesterday, regarding Facebook's attempts to enforce a "real name" policy.
Parenting for a Digital Future - 0 views
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Blog focusing on parenting and digital media. Central questions: How do parents seek to bring up their children in the digital age? What is parents' vision of their children's future and that of the wider society? What risks and opportunities will characterise the digital future?
Table of Contents - April-June 2015 - 0 views
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Very extensive special issue on the subject of "social media".
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The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz - 0 views
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highly recommended!
Why are we sleeping with our phones? | Anthropology in Practice, Scientific American Bl... - 1 views
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More on the curious intimacy of mobile phones in our lives and the role they play in mediating the distinction between "public" and "private".
Ghana's Kindle library - 0 views
Cell Phones in Papua New Guinea Used to Call Dead People | New Republic - 1 views
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We often fret that we’re too attached to our smartphones or that we let them wield too much influence over our lives. But our reverence for technology is relative. In the remote Ambonwari society of Papua New Guinea, villagers believe that cell phones are extensions of their human owners and can be used to commune with the departed.
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When their calls don’t go through, they don’t blame shoddy service or wrong numbers; they believe the spirits of the dead can interfere with their connections.
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They haven’t had time to develop telephone etiquette have, either. Back in Slovenia, Telban’s phone rings nonstop. “They really love just to ring me,” he said. He never knows who’s calling, since villagers share the phones, and as soon as he answers, the other person hangs up: They don’t have enough credit for an actual conversation. But Telban doesn’t mind. “They are my friends,” he said. “They’re just saying hello.”
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Interesting point about phone etiquette, about cultural styles of using technology, and also how it might be the act of connecting, rather than communication per se, which is attractive to people.
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By the way, there is a whole special issue on mobile phones in The Australian Journal of Anthropology which has just been published. The research on which this article was based is on of them. The current link for an "early view" is here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1757-6547/earlyview
Urbanscale - 1 views
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"Urbanscale was founded by Adam Greenfield in 2010 to bring a human-centered perspective to the design of products, services, and spatial interventions wherever networked information technology intersects the urban condition, for the benefit of everybody who lives, works, strives, and dreams in the world's cities. We work with municipal, public-sector and private organizations on one-off and long-term consulting projects, as well as developing our own products. Our expertise in interaction and interface design, ethnography, graphic design, typography, cartography and software development is complemented by extensive experience working in North America, Europe and Asia."
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Adam Greenfield also wrote books on that subject. If anyone is interested: http://speedbird.wordpress.com/my-book-everyware-the-dawning-age-of-ubiquitous-computing/
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Thanks for that Janek. Looks very interesting, and provides a great example of how design, ethnography and ubiquitous computing can be combined.
Taiwanese smartphone addict suffers from 'seen but no reply disorder', doctor says: Sha... - 1 views
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A doctor said the girl had suffered from a syndrome of "seen but no reply" (已讀不回症候群). Though it was not a "formal" disorder, it was still a symptom of smartphone addiction.
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In 2007, the China Communist Youth League claimed that over 17 percent of the country's 17-year-olds were addicted to the internet, making China the first country to declare internet addiction as a clinical disorder.
The History of Mana: How an Austronesian Concept Became a Video Game Mechanic-Vol. 2, N... - 0 views
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