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Higher Ed Design - A great new blog that explores the design of digital and analog educational environments in higher education. For those of you who have never heard of an "instructional designer," than this is a good place to start.
Georgetown University's Communication, Culture and Technology Website - List of conferences dealing with ICTs.
Open Source Anthropology - KerimsWiki Can the Subaltern Google? Concerns over the ethical dilemmas involved in producing knowledge about the “other” have, in the past few decades, radically changed how anthropologists conduct research and write ethnographies. Unfortunately, they have not
"MIT's OpenCourseWare [OCW]: [is] a free and open educational resource (OER)for educators, students, and self-learners around the world. MIT OCW:
Cybertelecom
Monitors U.S. government policies regarding the Internet and has statistics about Internet use.
Cultural Anthropology 2.0 - January 16, 2007
IT Conversations - Podcasting - Blogs # IT Conversations is now part of GigaVox Media an exciting new media company founded by Doug Kaye and Michael Geoghegan. # The Executive Producer of IT Conversations is Phil Windley, and you can read his blog for IT Conversations news and more...
Podcasting for everyone... by phone and by upload - Blogs Try SlapCast for free! From sign-up to login in under 1 minute! slapcast.com lets you start podcasting by phone and by upload immediately. * Unlimited bandwidth for your podcast * 60 minutes of phone messages included each month *
Media Anthropology Network - Bibliographies EASA Media Anthropology Network participants are putting together an annotated bibliography on media anthropology which can be found on this page.
Annenberg Research Network on International Communication 2005 Workshop Wireless Communication and Development: A Global Perspective October 7-8, 2005 The Ritz-Carlton, Marina del Rey, CA.
INCITE - Incubator for critical inquiry into technology & ethnography - U.K. - Europe Nina Wakeford - Director Nina is the Director of INCITE in the Department of Sociology, University of Surrey. Her previous research projects include studies of internet studies, women's discussion lists and the use of ethnography by new technology designe
Conference - Mobile Technology - Anthropology Mobile Persuasion is for innovators, researchers, and companies creating mobile technologies that change people’s beliefs and behaviors. Applications include health, commerce, activism, social networking, addiction, advertising, gaming, and...
Mobile Devices/SMS/IM - Anthropology Several people asked me (Nalini P. Kotamraju) to share my bibliography-in-progress on social science research about mobile devices, mobile phone uses, SMS/texting, and instant messaging, so here it is. Please feel free to send me cites (in any language)
MASN: Moving Anthropology Student Network - Moving Anthropology Social Network - Share your experiences - become a part of the MASN ! MASN, the Moving Anthropology Student Network/ Moving Anthropology Social Network, has been founded in 2005 to promote communication, networking and interaction among European ( but also other ) students of social and cultural anthropology ( i.e. ethnolog
Conference: Culture in Context: Pragmatics, Industries, Technologies, Geopolitics - Anthropology Culture in Context: Pragmatics, Industries, Technologies, Geopolitics Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, September 16-17, 2006
Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader - Jonathan Xavier Inda, Renato Rosaldo - Anthropology Editorial Reviews Book Description Over the last decade globalization has captured the public and academic imagination. The term globalization describes a condition in which the rapid flow of capital, people, goods, images, and ideologies across national
Peter Suber, What you can do to promote open access - Anthropology Universities: Students * As the researchers of the future, take your changed expectations with you. Researchers will finally take advantage of the internet in scholarly communication when a generation that has grown up with the internet occupies positions
Open Access to Scholarship: An Interview with Ray English | Academic Commons - Anthropology Open access is online access to scholarly research that’s free of any charge to libraries or to end-users, and also free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. In other words, it’s scholarly research that is openly available on the Internet.
AAA Article - Creating Cultural Change in Scholarly Communication Systems - Web2.0
Intute news: Intute Podcast coming soon Intute Podcast coming soon Intute: Social Sciences will soon be launching a podcast featuring the latest Social Science information news, interviews with key Social Science information providers and updates about what's new on Intute: Social Sciences.
Intute: Anthropology provides free access to high quality resources on the Internet. - UK - Europe Intute: Anthropology provides free access to high quality resources on the Internet. Each resource has been evaluated and categorised by subject specialists based at UK universities. We aim to match resources to the anthropology curriculum and the needs...
EVIFA - Virtual Library of Social Anthropology - Germany - Europe EVIFA, the Virtual Library of Social Anthropology, offers anthropological and folkloristic information from one source. It gives a fast, comprehensive access to specific information for anthropological research, regardless of the where about. Ethno-Guide
1996 Anthropology on the Internet: A Review of Networked Resources. Current Anthropology 37:561-568. Professor Brian Schwimmer
[MediaMatrix] - Oral History - Michigan State U. MediaMatrix is an online application that allows users to isolate, segment, and annotate digital media. MediaMatrix is an ongoing research project at MATRIX: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online based at Michigan State Universit
Historical Voices - Oral History - Michigan State U.'s MATRIX "Hearing the actual voices of the past can bring history alive in a way that reading a transcribed text never can,” noted Mark Kornbluh, Director of MATRIX. “Digital technologies now allow us to recapture the sounds of the past and make them freely...
Vermont Folklife Center Archive - Oral History Oral History Digital Guides
W3C Synchronized Multimedia Home page The Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL, pronounced "smile") enables simple authoring of interactive audiovisual presentations. SMIL is typically used for "rich media"/multimedia presentations which integrate streaming audio and video with...
PayPal Send Money :: Mozilla Add-ons :: Add Features to Mozilla Software The PayPal Send Money extension provides a quick way to send money to anyone with an email address. Enter the recipient's email address and the extension opens a quick link to PayPal's Website Payments Standard checkout page so you can log in and make a...
Flashblock :: Mozilla Add-ons :: Add Features to Mozilla Software Never be annoyed by a Flash animation again! Blocks Flash so it won't get in your way, but if you want to see it, just click on it. Works with...
translator :: Mozilla Add-ons :: Add Features to Mozilla Software Web page translator that is located on the web browser toolbar in Firebox.
VideoJug - Life Explained. On Film. Welcome to VideoJug, the constantly growing visual guide to everything in life. Find out anything from how to check for testicular cancer, change a tyre, or eat sushi. We're gathering the world's knowledge and experience in one place, on film, for...
Newzpile - realtime web buzz tracker Effective method to do a key word search that can culls through news media websites.
Ottobib Automatic bibliographies
How to Cite Sources and Make a Bibliography in U.S. Anthropology
Explanation of Web 2.0: SOA + RIA + OSS = Web 2.0 Service-oriented architecture (SOA), rich Internet applications (RIA), open source software (OSS) and Web 2.0 are all hot and relevant topics on their own. When combined, however, they really become powerful. As a way of introduction, wikipedia...
00107 Tempo FM's Chill Out Radio Essentials Chill Music from Belgium
Practical Action-Agricultural biodiversity Poor farming communities are increasingly excluded from access to and control over the resources and technology needed to sustain their livelihoods and the local environment. Moreover, globalised trade regimes are reducing local choice and control over...
Diigo: Social Annotation: Seamless Integration of Social Bookmarking, Web Highlighter, Sticky-Note & Clipping Highlight, Clip and Sticky-Note for any webpage * just as you would on paper --> write on any webpage! * make them private or public --> interact on any webpage! # Share your online findings with your friends and colleagues * complete with highlights.
Wikimania 2006 - Free Culture A wiki conference that happened in August 2006 where enthusiasts, including academics, participated in person.
dropping knowledge :: videos What is the most important questions to us?
The villagers of Hansdehar have taken this initiative to bridge the gap between the Government and the Citizens through this web interface for all the stakeholders involved in the development and upliftment of the village India is moving towards a Knowledge Based Society (KBS) with the help of Information Technology (IT). IT enablement of the villages is critical for empowering the rural India and to bring about eR-Commerce.
The Center for Ecoliteracy The Center for Ecoliteracy is dedicated to education for sustainable living. The Center for Ecoliteracy is a public foundation that supports a grantmaking program for educational organizations and school communities, primarily in the San Francisco...
UNV Online Volunteering Online Volunteering Service The Online Volunteering service connects development organizations and volunteers over the Internet and supports their effective online collaboration
News from PC Magazine: Indian Village Uploads Itself onto Internet Posted on website 8.15.06 HANSDEHAR, India (Reuters) - An Indian village has uploaded itself onto the Internet, giving the outside world a glimpse of life in rural India.
Treehugger - Savvy Environmentalist News Source TreeHugger is a fast-growing web magazine, dedicated to everything that has a modern aesthetic yet is environmentally responsible. Our influential audience stops by frequently to check out the latest news, reviews and recommendations for modern yet green ...
Public Policies for the Development of Information Societies in Latin America and the Caribbean June 2005 Paper
Public Library of Science: Support PLoS PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. All our activities are guided by our core principles.
Public Anthropology - Search Archives Able to search other anthropological websites
Guttenberg Project - Needs Proofreaders (edit one page a day!) Creating Cultural Change in Scholarly Communication From the October 2004 Anthropology News Anthropological ramblings; theoretical inquiries, reflections on method, analytical interrogations, and everyday mind dabblings. As for now we are six people writing this blog. We know each other from the Institute of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen.
Anthropology Review Database (ARD) is intended to improve the level of access of anthropologists to anthropological literature by making them more aware of what is being published and helping them to evaluate its relevance to their own interests. Unlike the more traditional print journals, ARD is not constrained by production deadlines and has few running costs. We can keep abreast of the production of new materials, and do so in a much more timely fashion than the traditional media. Envision an almost continous flow of information from publisher to reader, by way of this database.
Higher Ed Design - A great new blog that explores the design of digital and analog educational environments in higher education. For those of you who have never heard of an "instructional designer," than this is a good place to start.
Georgetown University's Communication, Culture and Technology Website - List of conferences dealing with ICTs.
Open Source Anthropology - KerimsWiki Can the Subaltern Google? Concerns over the ethical dilemmas involved in producing knowledge about the “other” have, in the past few decades, radically changed how anthropologists conduct research and write ethnographies. Unfortunately, they have not
"MIT's OpenCourseWare [OCW]: [is] a free and open educational resource (OER)for educators, students, and self-learners around the world. MIT OCW:
- Is a publication of MIT course materials
- Does not require any registration
- Is not a degree-granting or certificate-granting activity
- Does not provide access to MIT faculty"
Cybertelecom
Monitors U.S. government policies regarding the Internet and has statistics about Internet use.
Cultural Anthropology 2.0 - January 16, 2007
Posted by ckelty under Websites , Public Anthropology , dissemination , Open Access Open Source , AAA
The first issue of Cultural Anthropology under the editorship of Kim and Mike Fortun is out, and I am a willing participant in the media blitz. The first issue has a few articles that look great (although, as we already know, you need to be a AAA member to access them). One is an article on memory in Sierra Leone—articulating nicely with an article in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine on child soldiers—I’d love to see her reading of the use of memory in that autobiography. An article by Ilana Feldman on Human Rights in Palestine and an article by Michael M.J. Fischer revisiting culture...IT Conversations - Podcasting - Blogs # IT Conversations is now part of GigaVox Media an exciting new media company founded by Doug Kaye and Michael Geoghegan. # The Executive Producer of IT Conversations is Phil Windley, and you can read his blog for IT Conversations news and more...
Podcasting for everyone... by phone and by upload - Blogs Try SlapCast for free! From sign-up to login in under 1 minute! slapcast.com lets you start podcasting by phone and by upload immediately. * Unlimited bandwidth for your podcast * 60 minutes of phone messages included each month *
Media Anthropology Network - Bibliographies EASA Media Anthropology Network participants are putting together an annotated bibliography on media anthropology which can be found on this page.
Annenberg Research Network on International Communication 2005 Workshop Wireless Communication and Development: A Global Perspective October 7-8, 2005 The Ritz-Carlton, Marina del Rey, CA.
INCITE - Incubator for critical inquiry into technology & ethnography - U.K. - Europe Nina Wakeford - Director Nina is the Director of INCITE in the Department of Sociology, University of Surrey. Her previous research projects include studies of internet studies, women's discussion lists and the use of ethnography by new technology designe
Conference - Mobile Technology - Anthropology Mobile Persuasion is for innovators, researchers, and companies creating mobile technologies that change people’s beliefs and behaviors. Applications include health, commerce, activism, social networking, addiction, advertising, gaming, and...
Mobile Devices/SMS/IM - Anthropology Several people asked me (Nalini P. Kotamraju) to share my bibliography-in-progress on social science research about mobile devices, mobile phone uses, SMS/texting, and instant messaging, so here it is. Please feel free to send me cites (in any language)
MASN: Moving Anthropology Student Network - Moving Anthropology Social Network - Share your experiences - become a part of the MASN ! MASN, the Moving Anthropology Student Network/ Moving Anthropology Social Network, has been founded in 2005 to promote communication, networking and interaction among European ( but also other ) students of social and cultural anthropology ( i.e. ethnolog
Conference: Culture in Context: Pragmatics, Industries, Technologies, Geopolitics - Anthropology Culture in Context: Pragmatics, Industries, Technologies, Geopolitics Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, September 16-17, 2006
Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader - Jonathan Xavier Inda, Renato Rosaldo - Anthropology Editorial Reviews Book Description Over the last decade globalization has captured the public and academic imagination. The term globalization describes a condition in which the rapid flow of capital, people, goods, images, and ideologies across national
Peter Suber, What you can do to promote open access - Anthropology Universities: Students * As the researchers of the future, take your changed expectations with you. Researchers will finally take advantage of the internet in scholarly communication when a generation that has grown up with the internet occupies positions
Open Access to Scholarship: An Interview with Ray English | Academic Commons - Anthropology Open access is online access to scholarly research that’s free of any charge to libraries or to end-users, and also free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. In other words, it’s scholarly research that is openly available on the Internet.
AAA Article - Creating Cultural Change in Scholarly Communication Systems - Web2.0
Intute news: Intute Podcast coming soon Intute Podcast coming soon Intute: Social Sciences will soon be launching a podcast featuring the latest Social Science information news, interviews with key Social Science information providers and updates about what's new on Intute: Social Sciences.
Intute: Anthropology provides free access to high quality resources on the Internet. - UK - Europe Intute: Anthropology provides free access to high quality resources on the Internet. Each resource has been evaluated and categorised by subject specialists based at UK universities. We aim to match resources to the anthropology curriculum and the needs...
EVIFA - Virtual Library of Social Anthropology - Germany - Europe EVIFA, the Virtual Library of Social Anthropology, offers anthropological and folkloristic information from one source. It gives a fast, comprehensive access to specific information for anthropological research, regardless of the where about. Ethno-Guide
1996 Anthropology on the Internet: A Review of Networked Resources. Current Anthropology 37:561-568. Professor Brian Schwimmer
[MediaMatrix] - Oral History - Michigan State U. MediaMatrix is an online application that allows users to isolate, segment, and annotate digital media. MediaMatrix is an ongoing research project at MATRIX: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online based at Michigan State Universit
Historical Voices - Oral History - Michigan State U.'s MATRIX "Hearing the actual voices of the past can bring history alive in a way that reading a transcribed text never can,” noted Mark Kornbluh, Director of MATRIX. “Digital technologies now allow us to recapture the sounds of the past and make them freely...
Vermont Folklife Center Archive - Oral History Oral History Digital Guides
W3C Synchronized Multimedia Home page The Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL, pronounced "smile") enables simple authoring of interactive audiovisual presentations. SMIL is typically used for "rich media"/multimedia presentations which integrate streaming audio and video with...
PayPal Send Money :: Mozilla Add-ons :: Add Features to Mozilla Software The PayPal Send Money extension provides a quick way to send money to anyone with an email address. Enter the recipient's email address and the extension opens a quick link to PayPal's Website Payments Standard checkout page so you can log in and make a...
Flashblock :: Mozilla Add-ons :: Add Features to Mozilla Software Never be annoyed by a Flash animation again! Blocks Flash so it won't get in your way, but if you want to see it, just click on it. Works with...
translator :: Mozilla Add-ons :: Add Features to Mozilla Software Web page translator that is located on the web browser toolbar in Firebox.
VideoJug - Life Explained. On Film. Welcome to VideoJug, the constantly growing visual guide to everything in life. Find out anything from how to check for testicular cancer, change a tyre, or eat sushi. We're gathering the world's knowledge and experience in one place, on film, for...
Newzpile - realtime web buzz tracker Effective method to do a key word search that can culls through news media websites.
Ottobib Automatic bibliographies
How to Cite Sources and Make a Bibliography in U.S. Anthropology
Explanation of Web 2.0: SOA + RIA + OSS = Web 2.0 Service-oriented architecture (SOA), rich Internet applications (RIA), open source software (OSS) and Web 2.0 are all hot and relevant topics on their own. When combined, however, they really become powerful. As a way of introduction, wikipedia...
00107 Tempo FM's Chill Out Radio Essentials Chill Music from Belgium
Practical Action-Agricultural biodiversity Poor farming communities are increasingly excluded from access to and control over the resources and technology needed to sustain their livelihoods and the local environment. Moreover, globalised trade regimes are reducing local choice and control over...
Diigo: Social Annotation: Seamless Integration of Social Bookmarking, Web Highlighter, Sticky-Note & Clipping Highlight, Clip and Sticky-Note for any webpage * just as you would on paper --> write on any webpage! * make them private or public --> interact on any webpage! # Share your online findings with your friends and colleagues * complete with highlights.
Wikimania 2006 - Free Culture A wiki conference that happened in August 2006 where enthusiasts, including academics, participated in person.
dropping knowledge :: videos What is the most important questions to us?
The villagers of Hansdehar have taken this initiative to bridge the gap between the Government and the Citizens through this web interface for all the stakeholders involved in the development and upliftment of the village India is moving towards a Knowledge Based Society (KBS) with the help of Information Technology (IT). IT enablement of the villages is critical for empowering the rural India and to bring about eR-Commerce.
The Center for Ecoliteracy The Center for Ecoliteracy is dedicated to education for sustainable living. The Center for Ecoliteracy is a public foundation that supports a grantmaking program for educational organizations and school communities, primarily in the San Francisco...
UNV Online Volunteering Online Volunteering Service The Online Volunteering service connects development organizations and volunteers over the Internet and supports their effective online collaboration
News from PC Magazine: Indian Village Uploads Itself onto Internet Posted on website 8.15.06 HANSDEHAR, India (Reuters) - An Indian village has uploaded itself onto the Internet, giving the outside world a glimpse of life in rural India.
Treehugger - Savvy Environmentalist News Source TreeHugger is a fast-growing web magazine, dedicated to everything that has a modern aesthetic yet is environmentally responsible. Our influential audience stops by frequently to check out the latest news, reviews and recommendations for modern yet green ...
Public Policies for the Development of Information Societies in Latin America and the Caribbean June 2005 Paper
Public Library of Science: Support PLoS PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. All our activities are guided by our core principles.
Public Anthropology - Search Archives Able to search other anthropological websites
Guttenberg Project - Needs Proofreaders (edit one page a day!) Creating Cultural Change in Scholarly Communication From the October 2004 Anthropology News Anthropological ramblings; theoretical inquiries, reflections on method, analytical interrogations, and everyday mind dabblings. As for now we are six people writing this blog. We know each other from the Institute of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen.
Anthropology Review Database (ARD) is intended to improve the level of access of anthropologists to anthropological literature by making them more aware of what is being published and helping them to evaluate its relevance to their own interests. Unlike the more traditional print journals, ARD is not constrained by production deadlines and has few running costs. We can keep abreast of the production of new materials, and do so in a much more timely fashion than the traditional media. Envision an almost continous flow of information from publisher to reader, by way of this database.
