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	== Why Cyborg Anthropology? ==		== Why Cyborg Anthropology? ==

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	===The Wiki Way===		===The Wiki Way===
	~~When it comes down to it, the~~ wiki is an extension of my brain. It’s a place to collect, store and build upon thoughts~~. It’s also an easy~~ way to ~~share them with others~~. For instance, if I get an E-mail about a particular theory or idea, and I have a page written about it in the wiki, I can link the page vs. write the response, because I’m really linking them to a part of my external brain. And because it is a wiki, they can add something to it if they feel it is incomplete. Wiki’s age well. They evolve and grow more complex and nuanced and useful over time. I’m only 6 months into this wiki. There’s still much more to be done.		This wiki is an extension of my brain borne from the need to have a place online to put my thoughts. It’s a place to collect, store and build upon these thoughts in a way that I can hyperlink people to those thought. For instance, if I get an E-mail about a particular theory or idea, and I have a page written about it in the wiki, I can link the page vs. write the response, because I’m really linking them to a part of my external brain. And because it is a wiki, they can add something to it if they feel it is incomplete. Wiki’s age well. They evolve and grow more complex and nuanced and useful over time. I’m only 6 months into this wiki. There’s still much more to be done.

	Though I’m not officially affiliated with academia, I collect and frequent many academic papers daily, especially those written 10-20 years ago about the coming “virtual reality” or those who talk about ubiquitous computing and other things. I’ve found that simply replacing “virtual reality” with social networks lends very well to those papers. In addition, I’ve been collecting sites from colleges and universities that contain writing about cyborgs and cyberculture. They’re rather hard to find today, because the idea of cyborgs and high tech reached its apex in the in the early 00’s and then kind of fizzled. Writing about the study ‘cyberculture’ and ‘virtual reality’ had a limited audience since the beginning of the information revolution. Some of the sites are still around, but they are quite obscure. Many are missing, which means that I rely on the Internet Archive as a research tool almost constantly. I’m always digging around the historical layers of the web. The wiki’s goal is to help resurrect some of those briefly-lived resources, understandings and predictions.		Though I’m not officially affiliated with academia, I collect and frequent many academic papers daily, especially those written 10-20 years ago about the coming “virtual reality” or those who talk about ubiquitous computing and other things. I’ve found that simply replacing “virtual reality” with social networks lends very well to those papers. In addition, I’ve been collecting sites from colleges and universities that contain writing about cyborgs and cyberculture. They’re rather hard to find today, because the idea of cyborgs and high tech reached its apex in the in the early 00’s and then kind of fizzled. Writing about the study ‘cyberculture’ and ‘virtual reality’ had a limited audience since the beginning of the information revolution. Some of the sites are still around, but they are quite obscure. Many are missing, which means that I rely on the Internet Archive as a research tool almost constantly. I’m always digging around the historical layers of the web. The wiki’s goal is to help resurrect some of those briefly-lived resources, understandings and predictions.

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	==== Site Development ====		==== Site Development ====

	This site is an installation of MediaWiki with a number of custom plugins and theme by [[Aaron Parecki]]. The site's content is managed by [[Amber Case]]. This site welcomes contributors. Things needed are book reviews, new books, conference listings, journal articles, journal lists, films and film reviews, glossary terms, tools and critical analysis. If you'd like to contribute any of these items, or have ideas on what to contribute, please [mailto:case@~~cyborganthropology~~.com contact us]. For more information, see [[Blogs vs. Wikis]].		This site is an installation of MediaWiki with a number of custom plugins and theme by [[Aaron Parecki]]. The site's content is managed by [[Amber Case]]. This site welcomes contributors. Things needed are book reviews, new books, conference listings, journal articles, journal lists, films and film reviews, glossary terms, tools and critical analysis. If you'd like to contribute any of these items, or have ideas on what to contribute, please [mailto:case@caseorganic.com contact us]. For more information, see [[Blogs vs. Wikis]].

	~~==== Have your class contribute to~~ this ~~Wiki====~~		Update: 10 2023 - this site is getting new updates and love. The theme no longer is applied, but the articles will continue to be improved.

	~~This often occurs when a student writes a paper: the paper~~ is ~~written, turned in,~~ and ~~graded~~. The ~~paper gets lost in an E-mail account, hard drive or thumb drive. It doesn't generally see the light of day again. Eventually, it ceases to exist.~~

	~~In addition, it is rare that anyone besides the professor reads it. Thus, if any valuable thought is in there,~~ no ~~one knows it exists. Instead of doing research and finding the work, someone is going to end up rewriting that same paper instead of building off of it and taking it further.~~

	~~When a class contributes to a blog or wiki, actual published work~~ is ~~contributed to a collectively viewed system. Additionally~~, ~~technology skills gained in the learning process of formatting and editing content for~~ the ~~web provides students with valuable real-world skills. It gives them the power~~ to ~~publish and defend their work.~~

	~~Thus:~~
	*What students have to say is valuable.
	*Homework assignments can turn into actual work.
	*Electronic technology can connect ideas to similar ideas more quickly than paper work.

	~~If you'd like to have your class contribute to CyborgAnthropology.com, please [mailto:case@cyborganthropology.com contact us]~~.

	===About this Wiki===		===About this Wiki===

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	===About this Wiki===		===About this Wiki===
	For now the wiki is a way to both make public my work and observations as well as provide a resource for those looking to study technology and culture. I’ve considered grad school (leaning towards MIT), but I was told to take time off between undergrad and grad school to see what the ‘real world’ was like before deciding what to really focus on in grad school. It will likely be a while before it becomes clear what really needs to be done in the field. In the end, cyborg anthropology is a placeholder term for an evolution of anthropological methods and study. It’s about using new tools to do fieldwork in new places, and to study all spaces and types of humanity, not just foreign ones. And when it comes down to it, the wiki is an extension of my brain. It’s a place to collect, store and build upon thoughts. It’s also an easy way to share them with others. For instance, if I get an E-mail about a particular theory or idea, and I have a page written about it in the wiki, I can link the page vs. write the response, because I’m really linking them to a part of my external brain. And because it is a wiki, they can add something to it if they feel it is incomplete. Wiki’s age well. They evolve and grow more complex and nuanced and useful over time. I’m only 6 months into this wiki. There’s still much more to be done.		For now the wiki is a way to both make public my work and observations as well as provide a resource for those looking to study technology and culture. I’ve considered grad school (leaning towards MIT), but I was told to take time off between undergrad and grad school to see what the ‘real world’ was like before deciding what to really focus on in grad school. It will likely be a while before it becomes clear what really needs to be done in the field. In the end, cyborg anthropology is a placeholder term for an evolution of anthropological methods and study. It’s about using new tools to do fieldwork in new places, and to study all spaces and types of humanity, not just foreign ones.

	Though I’m not officially affiliated with academia, I ~~read~~ academic papers ~~constantly~~, especially those written 10-20 years ago about the coming “virtual reality” or those who talk about ubiquitous computing and other things. I’ve found that simply replacing “virtual reality” with social networks lends very well to those papers. In addition, I’ve been collecting sites from colleges and universities that contain writing about cyborgs and cyberculture. They’re rather hard to find today, because the idea of cyborgs and high tech reached its apex in the in the early 00’s and then kind of fizzled. Writing about the study ‘cyberculture’ and ‘virtual reality’ had a limited audience since the beginning of the information revolution. Some of the sites are still around, but they are quite obscure. Many are missing, which means that I rely on the Internet Archive as a research tool almost constantly. I’m always digging around the historical layers of the web. The wiki’s goal is to help resurrect some of those briefly-lived resources, understandings and predictions.		===The Wiki Way===
			When it comes down to it, the wiki is an extension of my brain. It’s a place to collect, store and build upon thoughts. It’s also an easy way to share them with others. For instance, if I get an E-mail about a particular theory or idea, and I have a page written about it in the wiki, I can link the page vs. write the response, because I’m really linking them to a part of my external brain. And because it is a wiki, they can add something to it if they feel it is incomplete. Wiki’s age well. They evolve and grow more complex and nuanced and useful over time. I’m only 6 months into this wiki. There’s still much more to be done.

			Though I’m not officially affiliated with academia, I collect and frequent many academic papers daily, especially those written 10-20 years ago about the coming “virtual reality” or those who talk about ubiquitous computing and other things. I’ve found that simply replacing “virtual reality” with social networks lends very well to those papers. In addition, I’ve been collecting sites from colleges and universities that contain writing about cyborgs and cyberculture. They’re rather hard to find today, because the idea of cyborgs and high tech reached its apex in the in the early 00’s and then kind of fizzled. Writing about the study ‘cyberculture’ and ‘virtual reality’ had a limited audience since the beginning of the information revolution. Some of the sites are still around, but they are quite obscure. Many are missing, which means that I rely on the Internet Archive as a research tool almost constantly. I’m always digging around the historical layers of the web. The wiki’s goal is to help resurrect some of those briefly-lived resources, understandings and predictions.

	What I mean by predictions is that well-written papers about the coming world of virtual reality actually predict a lot about what we’re dealing with now. I feel like I’m doing a bit of future history when I do this research, as I’m often encountering worlds of people who have experienced what it was like to have an identity on the early Internet. What was experienced in labs 30 years ago by only a few people is now experienced by millions every day. There is a lot to learn from going back in time and reading the work of those who were there first. Many don’t realize that it’s already been done before and that those pioneers left stories, warnings and experiences on the way.		What I mean by predictions is that well-written papers about the coming world of virtual reality actually predict a lot about what we’re dealing with now. I feel like I’m doing a bit of future history when I do this research, as I’m often encountering worlds of people who have experienced what it was like to have an identity on the early Internet. What was experienced in labs 30 years ago by only a few people is now experienced by millions every day. There is a lot to learn from going back in time and reading the work of those who were there first. Many don’t realize that it’s already been done before and that those pioneers left stories, warnings and experiences on the way.

Caseorganic at 21:01, 28 June 2011

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	==== Site Development ====		==== Site Development ====

	This site is an installation of MediaWiki with a number of custom plugins and theme by [[Aaron Parecki]]. The site's content is managed by [[Amber Case]]. This site welcomes contributors. Things needed are book reviews, new books, conference listings, journal articles, journal lists, films and film reviews, glossary terms, tools and critical analysis. If you'd like to contribute any of these items, or have ideas on what to contribute, please [mailto:case@cyborganthropology.com contact us].		This site is an installation of MediaWiki with a number of custom plugins and theme by [[Aaron Parecki]]. The site's content is managed by [[Amber Case]]. This site welcomes contributors. Things needed are book reviews, new books, conference listings, journal articles, journal lists, films and film reviews, glossary terms, tools and critical analysis. If you'd like to contribute any of these items, or have ideas on what to contribute, please [mailto:case@cyborganthropology.com contact us]. For more information, see [[Blogs vs. Wikis]].

	==== Have your class contribute to this Wiki====		==== Have your class contribute to this Wiki====

Caseorganic at 01:22, 17 December 2010

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	If you'd like to have your class contribute to CyborgAnthropology.com, please [mailto:case@cyborganthropology.com contact us].		If you'd like to have your class contribute to CyborgAnthropology.com, please [mailto:case@cyborganthropology.com contact us].

			===About this Wiki===
			For now the wiki is a way to both make public my work and observations as well as provide a resource for those looking to study technology and culture. I’ve considered grad school (leaning towards MIT), but I was told to take time off between undergrad and grad school to see what the ‘real world’ was like before deciding what to really focus on in grad school. It will likely be a while before it becomes clear what really needs to be done in the field. In the end, cyborg anthropology is a placeholder term for an evolution of anthropological methods and study. It’s about using new tools to do fieldwork in new places, and to study all spaces and types of humanity, not just foreign ones. And when it comes down to it, the wiki is an extension of my brain. It’s a place to collect, store and build upon thoughts. It’s also an easy way to share them with others. For instance, if I get an E-mail about a particular theory or idea, and I have a page written about it in the wiki, I can link the page vs. write the response, because I’m really linking them to a part of my external brain. And because it is a wiki, they can add something to it if they feel it is incomplete. Wiki’s age well. They evolve and grow more complex and nuanced and useful over time. I’m only 6 months into this wiki. There’s still much more to be done.

			Though I’m not officially affiliated with academia, I read academic papers constantly, especially those written 10-20 years ago about the coming “virtual reality” or those who talk about ubiquitous computing and other things. I’ve found that simply replacing “virtual reality” with social networks lends very well to those papers. In addition, I’ve been collecting sites from colleges and universities that contain writing about cyborgs and cyberculture. They’re rather hard to find today, because the idea of cyborgs and high tech reached its apex in the in the early 00’s and then kind of fizzled. Writing about the study ‘cyberculture’ and ‘virtual reality’ had a limited audience since the beginning of the information revolution. Some of the sites are still around, but they are quite obscure. Many are missing, which means that I rely on the Internet Archive as a research tool almost constantly. I’m always digging around the historical layers of the web. The wiki’s goal is to help resurrect some of those briefly-lived resources, understandings and predictions.

			What I mean by predictions is that well-written papers about the coming world of virtual reality actually predict a lot about what we’re dealing with now. I feel like I’m doing a bit of future history when I do this research, as I’m often encountering worlds of people who have experienced what it was like to have an identity on the early Internet. What was experienced in labs 30 years ago by only a few people is now experienced by millions every day. There is a lot to learn from going back in time and reading the work of those who were there first. Many don’t realize that it’s already been done before and that those pioneers left stories, warnings and experiences on the way.

			I read a lot of social theory. It gives me a lot of ground to stand on when I make my observations. Theodor Adorno, Marc Auge, Zygmunt Bauman, Marshall Berman, Walter Benjamin, C. Wright Mills, Michel Foucault and others like Guy Debord, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, David Harvey, Celeste Olalquiaga, Deleuze and Guattari, Paul Virilio. As far as more traditional anthropology goes, Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle and Erving Goffman’s Presentation of Self in Everyday Life are solid foundations for digital ethnography. Virilio writes about speed and culture, which is key to understanding the acceleration of changes that are occurring. Bruno Latour has Actor Network Theory that can help place humans and technology into a system that can be more easily studied.

			-[[Amber Case]]

Caseorganic at 01:41, 16 May 2010

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	This site is an installation of MediaWiki with a number of custom plugins and theme by [[Aaron Parecki]]. The site's content is managed by [[Amber Case]]. This site welcomes contributors. Things needed are book reviews, new books, conference listings, journal articles, journal lists, films and film reviews, glossary terms, tools and critical analysis. If you'd like to contribute any of these items, or have ideas on what to contribute, please [mailto:case@cyborganthropology.com contact us].		This site is an installation of MediaWiki with a number of custom plugins and theme by [[Aaron Parecki]]. The site's content is managed by [[Amber Case]]. This site welcomes contributors. Things needed are book reviews, new books, conference listings, journal articles, journal lists, films and film reviews, glossary terms, tools and critical analysis. If you'd like to contribute any of these items, or have ideas on what to contribute, please [mailto:case@cyborganthropology.com contact us].

	==== ~~Having~~ your class contribute to this Wiki====		==== Have your class contribute to this Wiki====

	This often occurs when a student writes a paper: the paper is written, turned in, and graded. The paper gets lost in an E-mail account, hard drive or thumb drive. It doesn't generally see the light of day again. Eventually, it ceases to exist.		This often occurs when a student writes a paper: the paper is written, turned in, and graded. The paper gets lost in an E-mail account, hard drive or thumb drive. It doesn't generally see the light of day again. Eventually, it ceases to exist.

Caseorganic at 01:41, 16 May 2010

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	==== Site Development ====		==== Site Development ====

	This site is an installation of MediaWiki with a number of custom plugins and theme by [[Aaron Parecki]]. The site's content is managed by [[Amber Case]]. This site welcomes contributors. Things needed are book reviews, new books, conference listings, journal articles, journal lists, films and film reviews, glossary terms, tools and critical analysis. If you'd like to contribute any of these, please [mailto:case@cyborganthropology.com contact us].		This site is an installation of MediaWiki with a number of custom plugins and theme by [[Aaron Parecki]]. The site's content is managed by [[Amber Case]]. This site welcomes contributors. Things needed are book reviews, new books, conference listings, journal articles, journal lists, films and film reviews, glossary terms, tools and critical analysis. If you'd like to contribute any of these items, or have ideas on what to contribute, please [mailto:case@cyborganthropology.com contact us].

	==== Having your class contribute to this Wiki====		==== Having your class contribute to this Wiki====

Caseorganic at 01:41, 16 May 2010

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	==== Site Development ====		==== Site Development ====

	This site is an installation of MediaWiki with a number of custom plugins and theme by [[Aaron Parecki]]. The site's content is managed by [[Amber Case]]~~, who's wanted to create a site like this for the past 2.5 years~~. This site ~~welcome~~ contributors. Things needed are book reviews, new books, conference listings, journal articles, journal lists, films and film reviews, glossary terms, tools and critical analysis. If you'd like to contribute any of these, please [mailto:case@cyborganthropology.com contact us].		This site is an installation of MediaWiki with a number of custom plugins and theme by [[Aaron Parecki]]. The site's content is managed by [[Amber Case]]. This site welcomes contributors. Things needed are book reviews, new books, conference listings, journal articles, journal lists, films and film reviews, glossary terms, tools and critical analysis. If you'd like to contribute any of these, please [mailto:case@cyborganthropology.com contact us].

			==== Having your class contribute to this Wiki====

			This often occurs when a student writes a paper: the paper is written, turned in, and graded. The paper gets lost in an E-mail account, hard drive or thumb drive. It doesn't generally see the light of day again. Eventually, it ceases to exist.

			In addition, it is rare that anyone besides the professor reads it. Thus, if any valuable thought is in there, no one knows it exists. Instead of doing research and finding the work, someone is going to end up rewriting that same paper instead of building off of it and taking it further.

			When a class contributes to a blog or wiki, actual published work is contributed to a collectively viewed system. Additionally, technology skills gained in the learning process of formatting and editing content for the web provides students with valuable real-world skills. It gives them the power to publish and defend their work.

			Thus:
			*What students have to say is valuable.
			*Homework assignments can turn into actual work.
			*Electronic technology can connect ideas to similar ideas more quickly than paper work.

			If you'd like to have your class contribute to CyborgAnthropology.com, please [mailto:case@cyborganthropology.com contact us].

Caseorganic at 01:27, 16 May 2010

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	==== Site Development ====		==== Site Development ====

	This site is an installation of MediaWiki with a number of custom plugins and theme by [[Aaron Parecki]]. The site's content is managed by [[Amber Case]], who's wanted to create a site like this for the past 2.5 years. This site welcome contributors. Things needed are book reviews, new books, conference listings, journal articles, journal lists, films and film reviews, glossary terms, tools and critical analysis. If you'd like to contribute any of these, please [~~mail~~:case@cyborganthropology.com contact us].		This site is an installation of MediaWiki with a number of custom plugins and theme by [[Aaron Parecki]]. The site's content is managed by [[Amber Case]], who's wanted to create a site like this for the past 2.5 years. This site welcome contributors. Things needed are book reviews, new books, conference listings, journal articles, journal lists, films and film reviews, glossary terms, tools and critical analysis. If you'd like to contribute any of these, please [mailto:case@cyborganthropology.com contact us].