Computer-Mediated Anthropology

An Online Resource Center

CMA Papers Presented at Conferences

Ubiquitous Computing Conference, 2004:

· Scott D. Mainwaring, Michele F. Chang, and Ken Anderson, Infrastructures and Their Discontents: Implications for Ubicomp

 

Afrogeeks 2005 conference:

· Daphine Washington, Virtual Communities And The Discourse Of Blackness In The Afro-Latin Diaspora

 

American Anthropological Association, 2005:

· E. Gabriella Coleman, Three Ethical Moments in Debian

· Jenny Cool, Utopian Socialities in an Entrepreneurial World: Cyborganic 1994-2003 (Appendix 1, Appendix 2)

· Henrike Donner, Kolkata Explorer: Teaching social and spatial relations in urban anthropology through a digital tool (DART Related links: LSE, Columbia Digital Library project)

· Ebru Kayaalp, Talking zebra stripes and peer-to-peer systems with computer scientists: an example of iterative interviewing

· Angela Labrador, Choose Your Own Ethics: A Hypertext Adventure

· John McMurria, Broadcasting is Dead, Long Live Broadcasting

· Frances Julia Riemer, Creating Classroom Community in the Nowhereness of On-Line

· Todd Wolfson, Mediated Democracy: Activism and the Promise of Politics in Cyber Capitalism

(For a list of other CMA papers at this conference, click here.)

 

 

 

Society for Applied Anthropology, 2005:

 

· H. Russell Bernard and Clarence C. Gravlee, Educara SURVEY 2.0 Software for Collecting Cognitive Data On The Web 

 

 

 

 

American Anthropological Association, 2006:

 

· Mimi Ito and Heather Horst, Neopoints and NeoEconomies: Emergent Regimes of Value in Kids Peer-to-Peer Networks (link)

 

· Ruth E. Tringham and Michael Ashley, Senses of Places: Remediations from text to digital performance (link)

 

· Tim Webmoor, Taking 'Yahoos' seriously: new media and the platform shift in cultural heritage (Wiki Link)

 

· Michael Welsch, The Machine is Us/ing Us (being remade for upcoming issues of Visual Anthropology Review; also remade into a video for YouTube)

 

 

 

 

Society for Anthropological Sciences, 2006:

 

· H. Russell Bernard, Aryeh Jacobsohn, and Clarence Gravlee, Ecuadara Survey 2.1

 

 

 

 

Society for Applied Anthropology, 2006:

 

· Laura Corrunker,  An Anthropological Approach to the Study of Communication and Change (Related Paper)

 

· Bob Moore, Helping your fellow wizard: Social learning in virtual worlds

 

 

 

Society for Applied Anthropology, 2007:

 

· Amy Goldmacher, Virtually an Anthropologist: Negotiating Distributed Work (link to a paper on the project she discusses) (link to the presentation on the project discussed in the SfAA presentation)

 

· Kiran Jayaram, Translating Realities: Challenges and Opportunities for Anthropology in Software Development

 

· Patricia Lange, Commenting on Comments: Investigating Responses to Antagonism on YouTube

 

· Nicholas Rattray, Participatory GIS: low and high-tech methods for mapping accessible space (link)

 

(For podcasts from this conference, click here.)