Secrets of digital celebrity: how to get famous the easy way
When Guy Kawasaki was asked how to get internet famous, he had discouraging news. There is no easy answer, he seemed to say. You have to follow thousands…
Lingua Franca English, qu’est-ce que fuck!
The either celebrated or lamented Charter of the French Language (Bill 101, as it’s known by most) is one of the hallmark achievements of Quebec’s Quiet Revolution. The…
G E R Ä U S C H K U L I S S E — IM FRÜHLING
Wir lauschen gemeinsam einem Feature und kommen dann ins Gespräch … _MONTAG, 30.03.2015 , 21 Uhr FEATURE-MACHER JOCHEN DREIER ZU GAST Komm vorbei! Bring deine Freunde mit!
News Round Up In-Brief
U.S. News Connecting civil rights, policy, and health, scholarly work on how immigrants’ health declines the longer they live in the United States suggests a policy need to…
News Round Up In-Brief
U.S. News Connecting civil rights, policy, and health, scholarly work on how immigrants’ health declines the longer they live in the United States suggests a policy need to…
Local Contexts – Licensing and Labelling Traditional Knowledge
I went to a fascinating lunchtime talk last Thursday given by Dr Jane Anderson, a legal anthropologist at NYU who specialises in investigating the relationship between intellectual…
the middle class (thinks it) knows best: daring to intervene in disadvantaged households
Photo credit: http://earlyed.newamerica.net/sites/newamerica.net/files/articles/images/dad_reading_to_baby_0.jpg (with Lizzie Fagen and Kathleen C. Riley) [On the American Anthropolo…
Design: cycles and heroes
Bill O’Connor was kind enough to send me an early comment on my recent blog post on Design and the corporation. He has given me permission to reproduce…
Fleeting friendships and community for Carnival
The institutionalisation of atomistic individualism over the need and necessity of social groups and relations – seen through Carnival It has become impossible today to describe the …
(How) Do Anthropologists Celebrate Valentine’s Day?
As an anthropologist, the first thought that comes to mind as we approach an upcoming holiday is typically, How do they celebrate this holiday in X?—X being a…
The Medium is the Message: A Lesson in Engaging Stakeholders in the UX Research Process
From designers and information architects to researchers and strategists, user experience practitioners must pay attention to the methods by which they communicate their ideas. As Marshall McLuhan fir…
Lezing: Over de grens – Politiek, islam en activisme in Nederland
Naar aanleiding van het rapport Eilanden in een zee van ongeloof – Het verzet van de activistische daʿwa in België, Nederland en Duitsland spraken onderzoekers, activisten, en vertegenwoordigers…
Roboter: Mixen, Reisen, Schauspielern
In der chemischen Industrie ist die automatische Fabrik bereits eine Realität. In vielen chemischen Werken besteht die Arbeit des Menschen darin, Kontrolluhren abzulesen und Ventile zu betätigen. Dies…
Roboter: Mixen, Reisen, Schauspielern
In der chemischen Industrie ist die automatische Fabrik bereits eine Realität. In vielen chemischen Werken besteht die Arbeit des Menschen darin, Kontrolluhren abzulesen und Ventile zu betätigen. Dies…
Roboter: Mixen, Reisen, Schauspielern
In der chemischen Industrie ist die automatische Fabrik bereits eine Realität. In vielen chemischen Werken besteht die Arbeit des Menschen darin, Kontrolluhren abzulesen und Ventile zu betätigen. Dies…
Identity under pressure: New Overheating book in the making
How does global capitalism influence our relations with other people and our perceptions of who we are? How do people cope with rapid changes in their surroundings? Which…
"New perspectives instead of more facts!"
A Superman cartoon was able to bring some movement to the polarized immigration debate. What can social scientists learn from this?
Reaktion auf den Standardartikel “Fremdenhass in Südafrika”
Sehr geehrtes Redaktionsteam von Der Standard, in der Wochenendausgabe vom 31.01.2015 bin ich auf die Reportage „Fremdenhass in Südafrika: ‘Sie haben Macheten und töten uns’“ von Martina S…
Seminar: Arctic fish-fishers-fisheries: scientific and local knowledge convergence
February 16-17 2015, Thule room, Arctic Centre Arctic Centre (University of Lapland, Rovaniemi) organizes 3rd workshop in the series ‘Arctic Ocean and coastal communities’ on February 16-17, 2015.…
Provoke! A Special Collection of Digital Sound Studies
Cross-posted on Innovating Communication in Scholarship Provoke! published its first online collection of sonic scholarship, making scholarly communication just a little noisier. As the editors write…
Call for Papers, AAA 2015
Call for Papers for Executive Session Submission: Policing, Estrangement, and Social Inequalities: Denaturalizing Law Enforcement and Police-based Governance 2015 American Anthropological Association …
Call for Papers, AAA 2015
Call for Papers for Executive Session Submission: Policing, Estrangement, and Social Inequalities: Denaturalizing Law Enforcement and Police-based Governance 2015 American Anthropological Association …
12. Ethnosymposium der Studierenden in Halle (Saale): Call for Contribution – 14.-17. Mai 2015
Call for Contribution – 14.-17.05.2015 12. Ethnosymposium der Studierenden in Halle (Saale) Diesen Call for Contribution als PDF herunterladen: deutsch oder englisch LebensWel…