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Savanna Bradley

Blogging Anthropology: Savage Minds, Zero Anthropology, and AAA Blogs - Price - 2010 - ... - 5 views

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  • Savanna Bradley on 09 Apr 12
     
    ABSTRACT In this review essay, the academic merits of three anthropological blogs ("Savage Minds," "Zero Anthropology" [formerly "Open Anthropology"], and the official blog of the American Anthropological Association) are considered.
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  • John Fenn on 16 Apr 12
     
    I'd suggest we take a closer look at this article toward the end of the term (specifically week 9), as we consider the multiple opportunities for "publishing" in the digital era; blogs have begun to end up as research tools in a number of ways, and this article will push us toward larger debates about academic communication/publishing that are raging all around...
  • Kelly Heckman on 16 Apr 12
     
    I know the owner of Savage Minds if we want to talk with him. Please let me know.
  • Mara Williams on 29 May 12
     
    Blogging affords a saoln-like place of exploration - sure. I was underwhelmed by this piece - but the context is probably helpful. The piece is a review. In that it is treating blogging seriously by performing a review in a respectable journal, I appreciate it. However, I want to poke at the edge what tools are acceptable - blogs seem respectable here. That's great, and very professional. But when I want a tool that will help me think through something, I'd rather use something that is less polished. Also a way to engage non-anthropologists - but are academic blogs engaging? Some are - I'm interested in how to create a non-boring academic blog. The end of the review gets at this problem - the author hopes the official AAA blog will use the format to spark debate and create interesting writing; but the status of it as an official blog makes that difficult. The front page is here http://blog.aaanet.org/ I would be interested in what folks think of it in light of this piece.
  • Maya Muñoz-Tobón on 29 May 12
     
    It is interesting how this article brings in the important aspect of collaboration and peer reviews, when analyzing and ethnographic work. The participation of readers and contributors in these blogs range from professional anthropologist to just interested readers, which causes an unbalance on what traditionally has been a seen as peer review work. The multi-directional and multilevel dialogue on these blogs create that malleability of the boundaries of the uses, effects and design of the ethnographic work. This act of participatory input from "multiple voices" makes the presentation of the ethnographic/anthropological work as another "subject" to be studied and analyze, it becomes an auto-reflection of the methodological design of the ethnographic work itself. Presenting the ethnographic work in a blogging format brings more levels of analyzing the data and the interpretation of this data.
  • Mara Williams on 29 May 12
     
    Here's a working academic blog, mostly on the writing process. https://lauraportwoodstacer.wordpress.com/
  • Rosalynn Rothstein on 30 May 12
     
    I appreciate the working academic blog. I might be interested in seeing two or three similar sites that are in dialogue with other another. Either people working on the same project or researchers in a similar field engaged in similar topics. This serves an obviously helpful role in garnering interested in your project.
John Fenn

Doing Blog Research (Again) | Mapping Online Publics - 1 views

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  • Rosalynn Rothstein on 30 May 12
     
    This article is of interest (http://mappingonlinepublics.net/2012/04/27/twitter-and-disaster-resilience-lessons-from-qldfloods-and-eqnz/) I would be interested in taking the map of twitter usage or during as disaster and the doing ethnographic follow up after the factor the see how this resource was used. This might build a better picture of how to use social media during disasters/similar problems.
  • Staci Tucker on 23 Jun 12
     
    How very interesting. Could be a really valuable read. I'm very curious how their method/methodology changes from other content analysis work in online spaces. If they take into account the unique context of blog comments (trolls, etc.).
Mara Williams

Art/Research through online comics - 13 views

Fifth mention: http://spinweaveandcut.blogspot.com/ Nick Sousanis' blog - he is writing his dissertation about comics in comic form!

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started by Mara Williams on 22 May 12 5 follow-ups, last by Mara Williams on 22 May 12
Jenny Dean

Can Facebook Innovate? A Conversation With Mark Zuckerberg - NYTimes.com - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Jenny Dean on 17 Apr 14
     
    Interesting piece on the significance of different social apps.
Mara Williams

Internet World Maps - 1 views

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  • Mara Williams on 30 Apr 12
     
    I'm taking this week's idea of "domains" a bit literally. Here's a quick blog post from Amit Agarwal (tech columnist for Wall Street Journal India). It links to several visualizations of internet activity. Some are physical: electricity; some are political (i.e. explicitly - all these maps are political!): censorship by country; some are social: use of SNS by country, the first edition of the xckd map of internet communities.* He offers these maps without much commentary. I'm interested in how these visual representations could help us think about the "where" of digital ethnography. My offline/physical context may be a coffee shop in Eugene, OR, am I also placed on these maps? What kinds of maps help you think about the "where" of the internet? * The second edition is worth looking at to think about the way time and technological development shapes our understanding of space.
  • Mara Williams on 30 Apr 12
     
    Here's a link to the second version of the xckd map of internet communities. https://xkcd.com/802/ While not a "real" map, I often use it in presentations to explain the idea that online communities are particular and exist in relation to each other. I often pair it with the concept of "fractalized communities" found in Patrica Lange's work in youtube video bloggers. Both get at the specificity of online research; there isn't one internet that I can study - I can only tell you about my time in this particular community.
John Fenn

Digital Ethnography | Techneos Systems - 2 views

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  • John Fenn on 16 Apr 12
     
    Must have had promise when I linked to this back in March, but now I get a "404" when accessing...backing into the domain a bit yields a rather dramatic "untrusted connection" message from Firefox! Beware!
  • Savanna Bradley on 17 Apr 12
Lydel Matthews

You found a planet!: Robert Simpson crowdsources scientific research | TED Blog - 0 views

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  • Lydel Matthews on 28 Apr 14
     
    A fascinating article about crowdsourcing and asking people online to help categorize images in the name of research! Presents an interesting take on highlighting the difference between what people and computers are capable of.
Mara Williams

The Vernacular Web of Participatory Media by Robert Glenn Howard - 12 views

This has been in my to-be-read folder for ages. I've started it a few times, but never finished it. While his arguments about the cases confuse me, I found useful his exploration of the potential...

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started by Rosalynn Rothstein on 24 Apr 12 2 follow-ups, last by Mara Williams on 15 May 12
John Fenn

Methods for Shaping Society | DMLcentral - 1 views

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  • Research methods are routinely understood as objective techniques for getting to know the world. Yet they may be more influential and socially significant than this, particularly as more digital methods are being developed and deployed. So what, too, do digital methods do?
    • John Fenn
      John Fenn on 21 May 12
       
      post focused on 'digital media and learning' field, but how might these questions apply to "ethnography"?
  • However, underpinning the technicality of methods is the assumption that they are able to capture and represent the world just as it is. Methods are understood rather like a photographic device that can capture, freeze-frame and reproduce a facsimile of reality. As researchers, we can say we've done a good job if our methods have been up to the job of capturing a picture of an objective reality as it really is—or at least pretty accurately so.
  • But much the same can be said of anthropological ethnographers returning from fieldwork. Their fieldnotes, photographs, dictaphone recordings, transcripts and video data are much like the neuroscientist's CAT and PET scans. They represent a reality—a human brain, a culture, whatever—that has been recorded and made presentable enough for interpretation. But are research methods really so objective? Or do they do other things?
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  • It is that our research methods may in some important ways fabricate the very things we want to observe.
  • Methods are not neutral or innocent tools but necessarily construct, shape, configure, frame and make up the social worlds they study—methods help create society.
  • in 18th and 19th century map-making and census-taking, as well as popular contemporary methods such as sample surveys and focus groups, and the emergence of new digital methods in the 21st century.
    • John Fenn
      John Fenn on 21 May 12
       
      implication/application for this line of inquiry re: digital ethnography (across the many manifestations we've encountered thus far...)? Also, how do methods of "analysis" figure in to this conversation?
    • Mara Williams
      Mara Williams on 29 May 12
       
      One way into this may be to carry out the author's exercise on the subject of the focus group (social, able to make choices, able to be influenced, likes sandwiches) on the subject of digital research. The piles of ideological baggage from the offline world are still in place - but what changes online? I'm really struggling with this one - maybe it's the water I'm swimming in - but I'm finding it difficult to describe (with any degree of texture) my online activity as separate from offline life.
  • Such details demonstrate the importance of recognizing the social life of methods. These are not neutral tools but politically charged instruments.
  • Methods are also social, however, because they in turn help to shape that social world—or, as it's put in the social life of methods program, methodologically speaking “what you see is what you get.”
  • Important questions are raised for research in digital media and learning by these insights. Newer forms of digital methods are now being developed and deployed that will enable researchers to make data on learning in new kinds of ways.
    • John Fenn
      John Fenn on 21 May 12
       
      To the point of questions/applicability around 'digital ethnography'...
  • open source social analytics are all beginning to change the ways in which learning can be tracked, recorded, visualized, patterned, documented and presented
  • Is this a big deal? If methods allow us to know more, then doesn't that mean we can intervene more effectively to improve learning? Isn't making new social worlds an admirable aim? Maybe so
    • John Fenn
      John Fenn on 21 May 12
       
      the ethical dilema...and not necessarily a 'new' one when it comes to ethnographic work; but what changes with the "digital"?
  • Perhaps the key point to be made about many such digital methods is that they generate transactional data without the awareness or intervention of research subjects—we are being aggregated as research data based on our transactions online without even thinking about it.
  • Digital media and learning research traces learning processes as they occur in new digital and networked spaces where they are inseparable from transactional data.
  • Yet one risk, as we have seen, is that the rise of digital methods has begun to emphasize transactional data over human participation in research
    • John Fenn
      John Fenn on 21 May 12
       
      Is this where "ethnographic" attention or impulse can fit?
    • Mara Williams
      Mara Williams on 29 May 12
       
      That seems to be the argument - though it could be clearer. Transactional material != social and human activity. Perhaps an integrated approach that combines the transactional traces with stories from "actual" humans.
  • Mara Williams on 29 May 12
     
    I really like this piece! I'm not super familiar with DML as a field, but the author's attention to the world-making capabilities (and not even capabilities - it's built in or "politically preloaded") of research methods. The post provides a clear defense against those who would argue that research is just objectively recording the world. At the same time, it doesn't slip into a poststructuralist wormhole about meaning. There's an attention to politics here that 's fruitful [Ah! but politics in general.. What are this author's projects' politics? What departmental/ disciplinary political fights shape the ground on which DML research takes place?]
Rosalynn Rothstein

The Role and Future of Web Archives - 1 views

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/05/a-vision-of-the-role-and-future-of-web-archives-conclusions-and-the-role-of-archives/ This short post points out three roles of web archives: preser...

archive preservation tools

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Savanna Bradley

Rhizome | Mapping the Social - 1 views

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Ed Parker

Ethnography in the new digital context - 4 views

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  • Ed Parker on 04 Jun 12
     
    As digital continues to influence behavioural change across all demographics and cultures, new tools and techniques are starting to allow greater access and insight into people's behaviours globally.
  • Staci Tucker on 23 Jun 12
     
    "As a planner I continually encourage the brands I work with to understand their audience behaviours and then create experiences and utilities that fit within this existing routine, rather than try and change behaviours, so when exploring research opportunities we should be doing the same thing - whether that involves simply listening, using mobile devices, creating videos / blogs / diaries / collages, gaming … or any combination of these." Little disappointed Lucas-Garner didn't reference privacy issues in her discussion of methodology in industrial research.
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