Week 5 Lifestream Review: A Search for Netnography
Michael Gallagher This week has been spent in the pursuit of two things: A subject for my ethnography Suitable tools to document my ethnographic subject One of these pursuits has been decidedly…
October 2010
Digital Anthropology coming to a university near you
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/digital-anthropology/ When these subjects are appropriated by higher education, does this indicate that it is an accepted form of discourse? It certainly lends itself to the thinking that the physical…
The Onion, Friendster, and Digital Archaeology/Anthropology
After reading Bell’s “Community and Cyberculture” chapter, I was struck by this quote: “The study of community has been a sustained effort to think through this complex; to think about…
QR Code: A Portable Gallagher
http://goo.gl/O5fk.qr My QR code for my writing, a digital postcard with history. 6 years worth of writing wrapped into a symbol, an abstraction of language laced on more language. 0s…
Kiva: Digital Communities networking physical ones
http://www.kiva.org/lender/michaelgallagher Kiva is a network of entrepreneurs and lenders facilitated by (and transformed by) community. It is an ideal community (Gemeinschaft) in my mind as it is based on logic…
Nostalgia as Digital Narrative: A Search for Legacy
Reading Bell’s “Community and Cyberculture” had me thinking quite a bit about the window of time once a community exists and when that community laments its own demise in favor…
Netnography Field Notes #3: Gemeinschaft and Nostalgia in Online Communities
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