Indigenous Theories of Published Informants
As anthropologists we research compact and ornate cultural practices that can scale up to something larger. Our informants usually aren’t aware of how their statements and practices reflect larger...
View ArticleDigital Labor
My colleague Ramesh Srinivasan and I just submitted an article to a journal in which we analyze social entrepreneurs’ digital labor practices. The argument we are making is that one needs to focus on...
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On the Front Lines in Wisconsin
by Gwen Kelly Last Monday, February 14th, having heard a preview of the budget proposals to come, the Teaching Assistants Association (TAA) of the University of Wisconsin, Madison decided to try a...
View ArticleParticipation, Collaboration, and Mergers
I work at UCLA’s Part.Public.Part.Lab where we investigate new modes of co-production and participation facilitated by networked technologies. Internet-enabled citizen journalism such as Current TV,...
View ArticleCritical Pessimism & Media Reform Movements
The American satellite television network Free Speech TV asked me to write up a blurb for their monthly newsletter about my participatory/observatory trip with them to the National Conference on Media...
View ArticleIntroducing Guest Blogger Eleanor King
In a series of forthcoming posts, my friend Eleanor King is going to reflect upon the tsunami in Japan and the use of social media in attempts to resist the ways in which catastrophes are taken out of...
View ArticleInformation Imperialism?
By the end of the year the US State department will spend $70 million on stealth communications technologies to enable activists to communicate beyond the reach of dictators according to a recent NYT...
View ArticleNetroots, America, and Progressivism
Honestly, I did not know what a “progressive” really was until working the videocamera for Free Speech TV at the 2011 Netroots Nation conference in Minneapolis lat month. I thought a progressive was...
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The Public Sphere of Occupy Wall Street
I keep returning to the public sphere as Habermas originally described it as I think about progressive political movements of today: Occupy Wall Street and its global dimensions, Anonymous and its more...
View ArticleArchaeology & place
It’s 8 am, and already bright. I’m out for an early morning walk because it’s a good way to see what ‘s going on around this community–to see what people are up to, and also just to go check out the...
View ArticleArrivals, routines, interviews, field notes and chance connections
Let’s call this an update from the field. I would like to call it a dispatch, but that doesn’t sound right. I have wireless, so that probably doesn’t count. Can a blog post really be a dispatch? I...
View ArticleAnother Occupy is Possible
A guest post by Levi Jacobs. black marker, brown cardboard, red flags, blue jeans sage, cigarettes, sweat mix with city smog and fried food: in a circle we stand, breaths fogging, arms raised, lie...
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Minding the Gap
[The post below was contributed by guest blogger Lane DeNicola, and is part of a series on the relationship between academic precarity and the production of ethnography, introduced here. Read Lane’s...
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Ethnography’s Sense
[The post below was contributed by guest blogger Ali Kenner, and is part of a series on the relationship between academic precarity and the production of ethnography, introduced here. Read Ali’s prior...
View ArticleSeven Ways to Talk to a White Man
Chinese is a hard language to learn, and I’m the first to admit that I have a long way still to go. But for the past six years I’ve been teaching in Chinese and so I’ve achieved a certain degree of...
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