http://socialmediaclassroom.com/host/vircom/ This is the course description and content for Howard Rheingold’s Virtual Community/Social Media course at Stanford for 2010. Interesting approach to open education and community building. Community as shared…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Michael Gallagher