January 2011
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The Off- Whites: Defining Personhood →
theoffwhites:
So, fear of the Mexican Other now has right-wingers attempting to rewrite the Constitution. This fear of a racialized other is not new (nor, as the “Tiger Mother” kerfuffle reveals all too well, is it limited to Latinos); over a century ago it was the Irish who were deemed sub-human.
The…
Regional dialects are alive and well on Twitter:... →
katychuang:
researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science find that regional slang and dialects are as evident in tweets as they are in everyday conversations.
Presenting Ethnography: a cultural approach to...
digitalheirloom:
WatchGetting People to Talk: An Ethnography & Interviewing Primer by Gabe & Kristy
Watchtheoffwhites:
Van Jones offers a concise and compelling talk about the link between environmental justice and social justice. Absolutely worth watching.
“If you don’t learn how to be alone, you’ll always be lonely, that loneliness is...”
– From Fast Company’s interview with Sherry Turkle about her new book Alone Together:Why we Expect More from Technology and Less From Each Other
This is on my list of things to read in the coming weeks. I tend use the word alienation to make the same points Turkle makes about loneliness. Perhaps it’s...
liminal spaces☭: field recordings as reinforcing... →
firesandwords:
a coworker of mine and i traded dulcimer music! i gave him a cd of mostly roma cimbalom(dulcimer) music from hungary, romania and the ukraine with an additional zither song from the philippines. he just gave me lo ka ping’s: lost sounds of the tao- chinese masters of the guqin in historic…
“Avoid hurting the hearts of others, the poison of your pain will return to you.”
– Native American Code of Ethics (via rasputin)
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Watchculturanyc:
TwoWest, a well known research company, has launched a project called ESP: The Ethnographic Sampling Project. Check the video to get involved!
imlaurenpeters: What does that mean to the... →
imlaurenpeters:
If you’ve been following my senior project redo (from 2009), I’ve been spending some more time reworking things. During Thanksgiving I did a little ethnography to observe the reaction of a few patients and their first time on the medicare website with the ultimate goal of finding and purchasing a…
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“If you do a Google image search of the number “241543903” you will...”