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Last Minute Call for Used Cell Phones! - 4 views

started by Shannon East on 04 Jun 14 no follow-up yet
  • John Fenn
     
    Have you connected with NextStep recycling to see if they have any surplus for donation?
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Beatboxing, Mashups, and Cyborg Identity - 2 views

started by Rosalynn Rothstein on 04 Apr 12 no follow-up yet
  • John Fenn
     
    Does not look like we can get a PDF of this easily, as JSTOR only has issues of Western Folklore up to 2007. Tok has written elsewhere about "digital" stuff, though, so we might be able to find something else of his.
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Periscopic Play: re-positioning "the field" in MMO studies - 9 views

started by Kelly Heckman on 13 Apr 12 no follow-up yet
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    http://bit.ly/HXDuQ7

    A shortened link to the PDF...and here is the link to the journal homepage: http://journals.sfu.ca/loading/index.php/loading/

    You comment, Kelly, that the ethnographer of games "needs to be a pre-existing gamer" in many ways echoes debates about emic/etic perspectives and discussions about the "position" of an ethnographer that have been ongoing since the onset of anthropological fieldwork (well, maybe not that long...). Certainly something worth considering as we endeavor to produce ethnographic knowledge about communities, cultures, practices, etc in "the digital age", wherein "objective reality" (if it ever exists) is thrown into such an oblique spin as a "given" concept.
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Mediated Cultures: let's discuss - 5 views

started by John Fenn on 10 Apr 12 no follow-up yet
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The Art of Fieldwork via Rhizome - 4 views

started by Rosalynn Rothstein on 04 Apr 12 no follow-up yet
  • John Fenn
     
    ran across this project/post earlier in the year, and really appreciate the multimodal approach to documentation & interpretation. As I look over it again, I'm thinking we should talk about the relationship between "fieldwork" and "ethnography," using this project as a starting point.
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The Object Ethnography Project - 27 views

started by Rosalynn Rothstein on 04 Apr 12 no follow-up yet
  • John Fenn
     
    an intriguing project, esp. since it appears to be one of many such efforts floating around the web focused on the "materiality" of life & the everyday. I'm curious as to what constitutes "ethnography" here, as it is more about "exchange-ography" in many ways...
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