web 2.0 – Savage Minds

Why do you comment on Savage Minds. Or why don’t you comment on Savage Minds? Are the comments good? Do they suck? Do you even care? Can internet comments save the future of the human species? ...

https://savageminds.org/2015/09/25/95-percent-never-rarely-comment/

There is some interesting discussion happening right now about Massively Open Online Courses, or MOOCs. I think a lot of it conflates education with universities as an institution of learning. To...

https://savageminds.org/2012/12/13/the-first-mooc-was-a-book/

Recently I’ve been rethinking my attitude towards popular trends in anthropological theory. You know what I’m talking about… that sudden realization that a whole bunch of anthropologists se...

https://savageminds.org/2012/10/03/lol-anthropology/

The “new” Anthrosource came out in January of 2009, and made Chris Kelty cry. In three and a half years it still hasn’t been fixed. Why not? Do the following experiment. Pick a keyword and ...

https://savageminds.org/2012/09/13/anthrosource-is-still-fail/

Uh…. does anyone else think its incredibly creepy that the AAA’s new ‘Registry of Anthropological Data Wiki‘ is hosted by Wikia and festooned with ads? Did you ever dream of the day that ...

https://savageminds.org/2012/09/11/do-anthropologists-approach-you-do-you-want-them-to/

So I was down South where I met up with DJ Hatfield over breakfast and we got to talking… I’ve long been thinking about how the plethora of open academic courses and lectures online is making...

https://savageminds.org/2012/05/25/a-khan-academy-for-anthropology/

I had the pleasure of interviewing Charles Stafford, Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics, about his new anthropology journal Anthropology of this Century. Click below to r...

https://savageminds.org/2012/05/06/anthropology-of-this-century/

Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Carole McGranahan. “Political economy?” “Symbolic analyses?” Post-whatism?” Semester after semester, my advanced anthropology students told me they c...

https://savageminds.org/2012/03/05/using-social-media-to-teach-theory-to-undergraduate-students/

The NY Times has an article about how corporate executives and government officials leave their laptops behind when they go to China or Russia, for fear that corporate or government secrets might...

https://savageminds.org/2012/02/13/protecting-informants-in-a-time-of-digital-thievery/

Nicholas Negroponte famously insisted that the dotcom boomers, “Move bits, not atoms.” Ignorant of the atom heavy human bodies, neuron dense brains, and physical hardware needed to make and m...

https://savageminds.org/2012/01/11/digital-money-mobile-media-and-the-consequences-of-granularity/

I had the pleasure of hanging out with Dutch anthropologist Dorien Zandbergen (PhD, Anthropology, Leiden University) in Sweden in October at an ESF Research Conference and learning about her fa...

https://savageminds.org/2011/12/20/hackers-hippies-and-the-techno-spiritualities-of-silicon-valley/

Many scholars, activists, pundits, and even a few politicians agree that American democracy is in trouble. Many reasons are given–the raw punch of money in elections, a distracted, apathetic, o...

https://savageminds.org/2011/11/23/american-democracy/

It is no surprise that American television news networks that consistently cover the Occupy Movement in detail tend to be liberal or progressive in political persuasion. Current TV’s Countdown ...

https://savageminds.org/2011/11/08/television-for-the-99-reverse-media-imperialism/

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 it...

https://savageminds.org/2011/10/30/the-public-sphere-of-occupy-wall-street/

I can’t stand this tech bubble blowing hagiography that has gone down since Jobs’s retirement as Apple’s CEO. Tech rag Gigaom founder Om Malik found out and cried: “It is incredibly hard...

https://savageminds.org/2011/08/31/forget-steve-jobs/