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My first twibe

      A few days ago I joined my very first Twitter group or ‘twibe’, namely the anthropology twibe (pop. 77), and I’m very excited about the possibilities of this social innovation… more →

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My first twibe

John Postill wrote 5 days ago:       A few days ago I joined my very first Twitter group or ‘twibe’, namely the anthro … more →

Tags: Anthropology, Ethnography, ICT studies, media anthropology, Networks, Web 2.0, Cyberanthropology, cybersociality, John Postill

Summary of Boellstorff (2008), Coming of Age in Second Life — 5 comments

John Postill wrote 6 days ago:   Boellstorff, T. 2008. Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Huma … more →

Tags: Anthropology, Cyberanthropology, Digital Anthropology, Ethnography, ICT studies, Material Culture, media anthropology, Media Theory, social theory

Notes on Boellstorff (2008), Chapter 9 — 2 comments

John Postill wrote 1 week ago: Boellstorff, T. 2008. Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human. … more →

Tags: Anthropology, Cyberanthropology, Digital Anthropology, Ethnography, ICT studies, Media Theory, Methodology, social theory, sociality

Notes on Boellstorff (2008), Chapter 8 — 3 comments

John Postill wrote 1 week ago: Boellstorff, T. 2008. Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human. … more →

Tags: Anthropology, Cyberanthropology, Digital Anthropology, Geography, ICT studies, Political Anthropology, Political Science, Research, social theory

Notes on Boellstorff (2008), Chapter 7 — 2 comments

John Postill wrote 1 week ago: Boellstorff, T. 2008. Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human. … more →

Tags: Anthropology, Cyberanthropology, Digital Anthropology, ICT studies, Material Culture, sociality, technology, Boellstorff, cybersociality

Notes on Boellstorff (2008), Chapter 5 — 2 comments

John Postill wrote 1 week ago: Boellstorff, T. 2008. Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human. … more →

Tags: Cyberanthropology, Digital Anthropology, Material Culture, media anthropology, sociality, technology, virtual anthropology, Virtual Ethnography

Cyberjaya: the Making of a Hi-Tech City — 2 comments

John Postill wrote 1 week ago: The Malaysian scholar Norhafezah Yusof is currently completing a book by this title based on her PhD … more →

Tags: ICT studies, social theory, sociality, Southeast Asia, intelligent cities, malaysian, MSC, Multimedia Super Corridor, residential sociality

Notes on Boellstorff's (2008) Coming of Age in Second Life — 8 comments

John Postill wrote 1 week ago: Boellstorff, T. 2008. Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human. … more →

Tags: Anthropology, media anthropology, Coming of Age in Second Life, Cyberanthropology, new media anthropology, Online Worlds, Second-Life, SL, Tom Boellstorff

Andreas Lloyd's review of “Two Bits”

John Postill wrote 1 month ago: via Andreas Lloyd’s blog I finally found the time to read Christopher Kelty’s book Two Bits … more →

Tags: Anthropology, ICT studies, Material Culture, media anthropology, Networks, technology, digital media practices, Free Software, Geekdom

Internet research group, University of Vienna — 2 comments

John Postill wrote 2 months ago: On Tuesday I had a very productive seminar with the Internet Research Group at the University of Vie … more →

Tags: Field theory, Blogging, Internet research, blogs, blogging anthropology, Vienna internet, Vienna University

Audiotapes, videoblogs and Muslim leadership

John Postill wrote 2 months ago: Announcement from Sigurjon Hafsteinsson, EASA Media Anthropology Network, via the Network’s ma … more →

Tags: Islam, media anthropology, Anthropology, ICT studies, middle east, Blogging, Media Studies, Media Theory, muslims

Igorots in the blogosphere

John Postill wrote 3 months ago: Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network, Vol 1, No 2 (2009), ISSN 1755-9944 … more →

Tags: Blogging, indigenous media, Southeast Asia, Web 2.0, blogging philippines, Igorot blogging, Igorots, indigenous activism, indigenous blogging

Recent OII workshop on networked governance

John Postill wrote 3 months ago: This past 26 March 2009 I attended a workshop at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) entitled Modes … more →

Tags: ICT studies, Sociology, Web 2.0, Political Science, Media Theory, Networks, sociality, Second-Life, Network Society

Jeff Ooi: from local internet activist to Member of Parliament — 2 comments

John Postill wrote 5 months ago: This is the ninth in a series of posts on my working paper “Local leadership and personal media: a p … more →

Tags: Anthropology, Grounding the Internet, ICT studies, Journalism Studies, Malaysia, media anthropology, Networks, Political Anthropology, Southeast Asia

New media practices in Korea

John Postill wrote 5 months ago: by Ok Hye Ryoung via Futures of Learning blog Until the late 1990s, it was hard to imagine that one … more →

Tags: consumption studies, East Asia, Ethnography, media anthropology, Media Studies, technology, Web 2.0, Korea, media and practice

Proof of the padang not in the eating — 2 comments

John Postill wrote 5 months ago: This is the eighth in a series of posts on my working paper “Local leadership and personal media: a … more →

Tags: Anthropology, Grounding the Internet, ICT studies, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, digital governance, digital government, Local Governance, Local Politics

Virtual ethnography and online fieldwork — 1 comment

John Postill wrote 5 months ago: This is a comment I posted on Friday, 6 Feb 2009, to the The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list (A … more →

Tags: Anthropology, ICT studies, media anthropology, Methodology, Research, Cyberanthropology, Don Slater, internet reseach, John Postill

Tecnologias personales y liderazgo social en zonas residenciales: los casos de Kuala Lumpur, Toronto, Melbourne y Tel Aviv

John Postill wrote 5 months ago: Dentro de un par de semanas he de dar un seminario en la Universidad del Pais Vasco sobre este tema, … more →

Tags: media anthropology, ICT studies, Political Anthropology, technology, Australasia, media ethnography

Some proof that I do actually study, sometimes. — 2 comments

erinstark wrote 5 months ago: I just submitted an abstract to a conference to be held at Oxford University in July this year. It w … more →

Tags: Academia, PhD, Cyberculture, Perth blogs, Conference Abstract


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