CLASS
SCHEDULE
Week #1:
Monday, January 7
INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE
[examine the website and course requirements very closely; set
up a blog; please commence reading for the following week, and
blogging]
Friday, January 11, 2008
• University Writing Test
Week #2:
Monday, January 14
ANTHROPOLOGY IN/OF CYBERIA
Required
Readings:
Escobar, Arturo. (1994).
“Welcome to Cyberia: Notes on the Anthropology of Cyberculture”.
Current Anthropology 35 (3) : 211-231. [password required]
Forte, Maximilian. (2002).
“Another Revolution Missed: Anthropology of Cyberspace”.
Anthropology News 43 (9) December.--OR--
http://openanthropology.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/another-revolution-missed-anthropology-of-cyberspace/
Hine, Christine. (2000). Virtual Ethnography.
London: Sage. [password required]
Optional extra:
Moulthrop, Stuart.
(1996). “Getting Over the Edge”. At
http://web.archive.org/web/20040422195849/iat.ubalt.edu/moulthrop/essays/edge.html
Thursday, January 17, 2008
• Last day to add two-term and fall-term courses
• Deadline for withdrawal with tuition refund from two-term and
fall-term courses
Week #3:
Monday, January 21
VIRTUAL ETHNOGRAPHY: ETHNOGRAPHY OF NEW MEDIA, OR “VIRTUALLY”
ETHNOGRAPHY?
Class time will be devoted to
discussion of Avatara.
Required Readings:
Hine, Christine. (1998).
“Virtual Ethnography”. Paper presented at the Internet
Research and Information for Social Scientists conference,
University of Bristol, 25-27 March. At
http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/archive/iriss/papers/paper16.htm
Fay, Michaela. (2007). “Mobile
Subjects, Mobile Methods: Doing Virtual Ethnography in a
Feminist Online Network.” Forum: Qualitative Social Research
8 (3), Sept.
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-14-e.htm.
Wittel, Andreas. (2000).
“Ethnography on the move: From field to net to Internet”.
[23 paragraphs]. Forum: Qualitative Social Research 1 (1) at:
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-00/1-00wittel-e.htm
Optional extras:
Silver, David. (n.d.) “Introducing
Cyberculture”. Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies.
http://rccs.usfca.edu/intro.asp
Shields, Rob. (2006).
“Virtualities”. Theory, Culture & Society 23 (2): 284-286.
[password required]
Week #4: Monday, January 28
CYBERSPACE COMMUNITIES
Research Paper Prospectus due in class
Required
Readings:
Wilson, Samuel M. and Leighton C. Peterson. (2002). “The
Anthropology of Online Communities.” Annual Review of
Anthropology 31: 449-67. [password required]
Kollock, Peter and Marc A.
Smith. (1999). “Communities in Cyberspace.” In Marc Smith
and Peter Kollock, eds., Communities in Cyberspace, pp. 3-25.
London: Routledge. [password required]
Optional extras:
Mitra, Ananda. (1999).
“Characteristics of the WWW Text: Tracing Discursive
Strategies”. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 5
(1) at
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol5/issue1/mitra.html
Matei, Soren Adam. (2005).
“From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Virtual Community
Discourse and the Dilemma of Modernity”. Journal of
Computer-Mediated Communication 10 (3) at
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue3/matei.html
Forte, Maximilian
C. (2006). “Amerindian@Caribbean: The Modes and Meanings of
'Electronic Solidarity' in the Revival of Carib and Taino
Identities.” In Kyra Marie Landzelius, ed., Native on the
Net: Indigenous and Diasporic Peoples in the Virtual Age, pp.
132-151. London: Routledge.
Week #5: Monday, February 4
SOCIAL NETWORKING
Required
Readings:
boyd, danah m. and Nicole B. Ellison. (2007). “Social Network
Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship”. Journal of
Computer-Mediated Communication 13 (1), at
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html
Ellison, Nicole B.; Steinfield, Charles and Cliff Lampe. (2007).
“The Benefits of Facebook ‘Friends’: Social Capital and College
Students’ Use of Online Social Network Sites”. Journal of
Computer-Mediated Communication 12: 1143-1168.
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue4/ellison.html
Van Loon, Joost. (2006). “Network”. Theory, Culture & Society 23
(2): 307-314. [password required]
Optional extras:
Steinkuehler, Constance A. and Dmitri Williams. (2006). “Where
Everybody Knows Your (Screen) Name: Online Games as ‘Third
Places’.” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 11:
885-909.
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue4/steinkuehler.html
Lampel, Joseph and Ajay Bhalla. (2007). “The Role of Status
Seeking in Online Communities: Giving the Gift of Experience”.
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 12: 434-455.
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue2/lampel.html
Cooper, Wesley. (2002). “Information Technology and Internet
Culture”. Journal of Virtual Environments 6 (1) at
http://www.brandeis.edu/pubs/jove/HTML/V6/iculture.html
Thomsen, Steven R.; Straubhaar, Joseph D. and Drew M. Bolyard.
(1998). “Ethnomethodology and the Study of Online Communities:
Exploring the Cyber Streets”. Paper presented at the Internet
Research and Information for Social Scientists conference,
University of Bristol, 25-27 March. At
http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/archive/iriss/papers/paper32.htm
Parks, Malcolm R. (1996) “Making Friends in Cyberspace”. Journal
of Computer-Mediated Communication 1 (4) at
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol1/issue4/parks.html
Arney, June. (2007/10/25). “Making a Living in a Virtual World:
Big Firms and Startups Seek Profit in Simulated Businesses”.
Baltimore Sun at
http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bal-bz.secondlife25oct25,0,3103506,full.story
Kollock, Peter. (n.d.). “The Economies of Online Cooperation:
Gifts and Public Goods in Cyberspace” at
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/kollock/papers/economies.htm
Week #6: Monday, February 11
INTERNET MODULES: Email, Instant Messaging, Flickr, Skype, Blogs,
Websites, Wikipedia, Search Engines
Readings—choose any 3 from the following
(not less than 45 pages of reading in total):
Döring, Nicola. (2002). “Personal Homepages on the Web: A Review
of Research”. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 7 (3)
at
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol7/issue3/doering.html
Doostdar, Alireza. (2004). “ ‘The Vulgar Spirit of Blogging’: On
Language, Culture, and Power in Persian Weblogestan.” American
Anthropologist 106 (4): 651-662.
http://www.doostdar.com/articles/vsob.pdf
Schmidt, Jan. (2007). “Blogging Practices: An Analytical
Framework”. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 12:
1409-1427.
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue4/schmidt.html
Qian, Hua and Craig R. Scott. (2007). “Anonymity and
Self-Disclosure on Weblogs”. Journal of Computer-Mediated
Communication 12: 1428-1451.
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue4/qian.html
Huffaker, David A. and Sandra L. Calvert. (2005). “Gender,
Identity, and Language Use in Teenage Blogs”. Journal of
Computer-Mediated Communication 10 (2) at
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue2/huffaker.html
Saka, Erkan. (2006). “Blogging as a Research Tool for
Ethnographic Fieldwork”. Paper submitted to the annual
conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, Internet
Research 7.0: Internet Convergences. Brisbane, Qld, Australia,
September 27–30.
http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dgf3br9b_6f47gdh&pli=1
Fagerlid, Cicilie. (2007). “My Blog, My Project, and I”. Cicilie
Among the Parisians, Sept. 14 at
http://antropologi.info/blog/cicilie/index.php?p=1611&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
Hargittai, Eszter. (2007). “The Social, Political, Economic, and
Cultural Dimensions of Search Engines: An Introduction”. Journal
of Computer-Mediated Communication 12: 769-777.
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue3/hargittai.html
Lange, Patricia G. (2007). “Publicly Private and Privately
Public: Social networking on YouTube”. Journal of
Computer-Mediated Communication 13 (1) at
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/lange.html
Tufekci, Zeynep. (n.d.) “Can You See Me Now? Audience and
Disclosure Regulation in Online Social Network Sites”. Online
paper.
Liu, Hugo. (2007). “Social Network Profiles as Taste
Performances”. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 13 (1)
at
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/liu.html
Kim, Hyo; Kim, Gwang Jae; Park, Han Woo and Ronald E. Rice.
(2007). “Configurations of Relationships in Different Media: FtF,
Email, Instant Messenger, Mobile Phone, and SMS”. Journal of
Computer-Mediated Communication 12: 1183-1207.
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue4/kim.html
Segev, Elad; Ahituv, Niv and Karine Barzilai-Nahon. (2007).
“Mapping Diversities and Tracing Trends of Cultural
Homogeneity/Heterogeneity in Cyberspace”. Journal of
Computer-Mediated Communication 12: 1269-1297.
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue4/segev.html
Pfeil, Ulrike; Zaphiris, Panayiotis and Chee Siang Ang. (2006).
“Cultural Differences in Collaborative Authoring of Wikipedia.”
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 12: 88-103.
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue1/pfeil.html
Mehta, Dina. (2005). “What’s Your Skype Research Project?” Skype
Journal at
http://www.skypejournal.com/blog/archives/2005/04/whats_your_skyp_1.php
Knorr, Alexander. (2005). “Ethnographic Skype”.
Xirdalium April
14 at
http://xirdal.lmu.de/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2005/04/14#ethnographic_skype
Kerim. (2005). “Flickrology” at
http://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2005/04/16/flickrology/
Liu, Geoffrey Z. (1999). “Virtual Community Presence in Internet
Relay Chatting”. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 5
(1) at
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol5/issue1/liu.html
Johnson, T. J., Kaye, B. K., Bichard, S. L. and W. J. Wong.
(2007). “Every blog has its day: Politically-interested Internet
users' perceptions of blog credibility”. Journal of
Computer-Mediated Communication 13 (1), article 6.
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/johnson.html
Viégas, Fernanda B. (2005). “Bloggers’ Expectations of Privacy
and Accountability: An Initial Survey”. Journal of
Computer-Mediated Communication 10 (3) at
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue3/viegas.html
Noth, Tim. (1994). The Internet and Usenet Global Computer
Networks: An Investigation of their Culture and its Effects on
New Users. MA thesis, Curtin University of Technology. (see esp.
Ch. 4)
http://web.archive.org/web/20041022083439/http://www.scribe.com.au/timn/thesis/
Deutsche Welle. (2007/12/06). “From Africa to Germany, Blogs
Reflect a Globalized World.”
Lipka, Sara. (2007) “For Professors, ‘Friending’ Can Be
Fraught”. Chronicle of Higher Education 54 (15) December: A1
Forte, Maximilian C. (2005). “Centering the Links: Understanding
Cybernetic Patterns of Co-Production, Circulation and
Consumption” (Ch. 7). In Christine Hine, ed.Virtual Methods:
Issues in Social Research on the Internet, pp. 93-106. Oxford:
Berg.
Forte, Maximilian C. (2004). “Co-Construction and Field
Creation: Website Development as both an Instrument and
Relationship in Action Research.” In Elizabeth Buchanan, ed.,
Virtual Research Ethics: Issues and Controversies, pp. 222-248.
Hershey, PA: Idea Group.
Forte, Maximilian C. (2005). “Website Development as Both an
Instrument and Relationship in Action Research.” In Stewart
Marshall, Wal Taylor, Xinghuo Yu, eds., The Encyclopedia of
Developing Regional Communities with Information and
Communication Technology, pp. 729-734. Hershey, PA: Idea Group
Reference.
Pew Internet & American Life Project. (2000). Tracking Online
Life: How Women Use the Internet to Cultivate Relationships with
Family and Friends. Washington, DC: Pew Internet & American Life
Project.
Lenhart, Amanda; Rainie, Lee and Oliver Lewis. (2001). Teenage
life online: The rise of the instant-message generation and the
Internet’s impact on friendships and family relationships.
Washington, DC: Pew Internet & American Life Project.
Week #7: Monday, February 18
Mid-Term Break—please read ahead on
“Doing Internet Research” & “Ethical Issues”, see below.
Friday, February 22
President’s Holiday: University closed
Week #8: Monday, February 25
IDENTITIES ONLINE
Readings—please do the first reading
below by Turkle and choose one additional
article to read from the list below:
Turkle, Sherry. (1995). Life on the Screen. New York: Simon and
Schuster.[password required]
O’Brien, Jodi. (1999). “Writing in the Body: Gender (Re)production
in Online Interaction”. In Marc A. Smith and Peter Kollock,
eds., Communities in Cyberspace, pp. 76-104. London: Routledge.[password
required]
Nowak, Kristine L. and Christian Rauh. (2006). “The Influence of
the Avatar on Online Perceptions of Anthropomorphism, Androgyny,
Credibility, Homophily, and Attraction.” Journal of
Computer-Mediated Communication 11: 153-178.
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue1/nowak.html
Jacobson, David. (1996). “Contexts and Cues in Cyberspace: The
Pragmatics of Naming in Text-Based Virtual Realities”. Journal
of Anthropological Research 52 (4): 461-479. [password required]
Murray, Craig D. and Judith Sixsmith. (1999). “The Corporeal
Body in Virtual Reality”. Ethos 27 (3): 315-343.
Gane, Nicholas. (2006). “Posthuman”.
Theory, Culture & Society
23 (2): 431-434. [password required]
Jacobson, David. (1999). “Impression Formation in Cyberspace:
Online Expectations and Offline Experiences in Text-based
Virtual Communities”. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
5 (1) at
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol5/issue1/jacobson.html
Miller, Hugh. (1995). “The Presentation of Self in Electronic
Life: Goffman on the Internet”. Paper presented at Embodied
Knowledge and Virtual Space Conference, Goldsmiths' College,
University of London, June.
Miller, Hugh and Russell Mather. (1998). “The Presentation of
Self in WWW Home Pages”. Paper presented at the Internet
Research and Information for Social Scientists conference,
University of Bristol, 25-27 March. At
http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/archive/iriss/papers/paper21.htm
Ellison, Nicole; Heino, Rebecca and Jennifer Gibbs. (2006).
“Managing Impressions Online: Self-Presentation Processes in the
Online Dating Environment”. Journal of Computer-Mediated
Communication 11: 415-441.
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue2/ellison.html
McRae, Shannon. (n.d.). “Coming Apart at the Seams: Sex, Text
and the Virtual Body”. Archived at
http://web.archive.org/web/20040404060242/
www.usyd.edu.au/su/social/papers/mcrae.html
Stone, Alluquere Rosanne. (1991). “Will the Real Body Please
Stand Up”. In Michael Benedickt, ed., Cyberspace: First Steps,
pp. 81-118. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Arvhived at
http://web.archive.org/web/20040404190554/www.rochester.edu/
College/FS/Publications/StoneBody.html
Aycock, Alan. (1995). “ ‘Technologies of the Self’: Foucault and
Internet Discourse”. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
1 (2) at
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol1/issue2/aycock.html
Week #9: Monday, March 3
DOING INTERNET RESEARCH + ETHICAL ISSUES
Required Readings:
Media Anthropology Network: E-seminar on “Researching the
Internet”. EASA1.pdf,
EASA2.pdf,
EASA3.pdf
Hakken, David. (1999). Cyborgs@Cyberspace? An Ethnographer Looks
to the Future. New York: Routledge.[password required]
Paccagnella, Luciano. (1997). “Getting the Seat of Your Pants
Dirty: Strategies for Ethnographic Research on Virtual
Communities”. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 3 (1).
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol3/issue1/paccagnella.html
Ess, Charles and the AoIR Ethics Working Group. (2002). Ethical
Decision-Making and Internet Research: Recommendations from the
AoIR Ethics Working Committee. Association of Internet
Researchers. (Read esp. pages 1-10)
Frankel, Mark S. and Sanyin Siang. (1999). “Ethical and Legal
Aspects of Human Subjects Research on the Internet”. A Report of
a Workshop, June 10-11, Washington DC. American Association for
the Advancement of Science.
http://www.aaas.org/spp/sfrl/projects/intres/report.pdf
Optional extras:
Garton, Laura; Haythornthwaite, Caroline and Barry Wellman.
(1997). “Studying Online Social Networks”. Journal of
Computer-Mediated Communication 3 (1) at
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol3/issue1/garton.html
Rybas, Natalia & Gajjala, Radhika (2007). “Developing
Cyberethnographic Research Methods for Understanding Digitally
Mediated Identities.” [33 paragraphs] Forum: Qualitative Social
Research 8 (3),
http://www.qualitativeresearch.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-35-e.htm.
Drury, John and Clifford Stott. (2001). “Bias as a Research
Strategy in Participant Observation: The Case of Intergroup
Conflict.” Field Methods 13 (1): 47-67. [password required]
Megens, Helen and Brian Martin. (2003). “Cybermethods: An
Assessment”. First Monday at
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_2/megens/index.html
Gray, Morag A. (2001). “Review note to. Chris Mann & Fiona
Stewart (2000). Internet Communication and Qualitative Research:
A handbook for Researching Online”. [9 paragraphs]. Forum:
Qualitative Social Research 2 (1) at:
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-01/1-01review-gray-e.htm
Manfreda, Katja Lozar; Batagelj, Zenel and Vasja Vehovar.
(2002). “Design of Web Survey Questionnaires: Three Basic
Experiments”. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 7 (3)
at
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol7/issue3/vehovar.html
Nocera, José L. Abdelnour. (2002). “Ethnography and Hermeneutics
in Cybercultural Research Assessing IRC Virtual Communities”.
Journal of Computer Mediated Communication 7 (2) at
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol7/issue2/nocera.html
Wright, Kevin B. (2005). “Researching Internet-based
Populations: Advantages and Disadvantages of Online Survey
Research, Online Questionnaire Authoring Software Packages, and
Web Survey services”. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
10 (3) at
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue3/wright.html
More on ethics:
Young, Jeffrey R. (2001). “Committee of Scholars Proposes Ethics
Guidelines for Research in
Cyberspace”. Chronicle of Higher Education 48 (10) November 2:
A51-A52.
Hamilton, James C. (1999). “The ethics of conducting
social-science research on the Internet”. Chronicle of Higher
Education 46 (15) December 3: B6-B8.
Code of Ethics of the American Anthropological Association
(1998). (Read esp. Section III, A, B, C)
Jankowski, Nicholas W. and Martine van Selm. (2001). “Research
Ethics in a Virtual World: Some Guidelines and Illustrations”.
Presentation to the Virtual Methods seminar programme, CRICT,
Brunel University, archived at
http://web.archive.org/web/20031014232227/
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/crict/vmpapers/nick.htm
Friday, March 7
• University Writing Test
Week #10: Monday, March 10
PROJECT PRESENTATIONS
Thursday, March 13
•
Last day for academic withdrawal from two-term and winter term
courses
Week #11: Monday, March 17
PROJECT PRESENTATIONS
Week #12: Monday, March 24
HOLIDAY: No classes
Week #13: Monday, March 31
PROJECT PRESENTATIONS
Week #14: Monday, April 7
PROJECT PRESENTATIONS
The
following list of readings was previously assigned for January
28, prior to the revision of the syllabus. They are listed here
for your interest only:
VIRTUALITY AND CYBER ETHNOGRAPHY
Readings:
Mitra, Ananda and
Rae Lynn Schwartz. (2001). “From Cyber Space to Cybernetic
Space: Rethinking the Relationship between Real and Virtual
Spaces”. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 7 (1) at
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol7/issue1/mitra.html
Teli, Maurizio; Pisanu,
Francesco & Hakken, David (2007). “The Internet as a
Library-of-People: For a Cyberethnography of Online Groups.”
[65 paragraphs] Forum: Qualitative Social Research 8 (3),
http://www.qualitativeresearch.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-33-e.htm.
Featherstone, Mike.
(2006). “Archive.” Theory, Culture & Society 23 (2):
591-596. [password required]
Optional:
Turkle, Sherry.
(1996). “Virtuality and its Discontents”. The American
Prospect 7 (24) at
http://web.archive.org/web/20040409072555/www.prospect.org/print/V7/24/turkle-s.html
Barbatsis, Gretchen and
Kenneth Hansen. (1999). “The Performance of Cyberspace: An
Exploration into Computer-Mediated Reality”. Journal of
Computer-Mediated Communication 5 (1) at
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol5/issue1/barbatsis.html
Biocca, Frank. (1997). “The
Cyborg’s Dilemma: Progressive Embodiment in Virtual
Environments”. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 3
(2) at
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol3/issue2/biocca2.html
For those with an interest in the following, especially if
connected to your research interests, a list of recommended
readings on....
RACE, ETHNICITY, AND NATIONALISM ONLINE
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. (2006). “Nations in Cyberspace.” Ernest Gellner Lecture, London School of Economics, 27 March.
Nakamura, Lisa. (1995). “Race in/for Cyberspace: Identity
Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet”. Works and Days 13
(1-2): 712-720.
Burkhalter, Byron. (1999). “Reading Race Online: Discovering
Racial Identity in Usenet Discussions”. In Marc Smith and Peter Kollock, eds., Communities in Cyberspace, pp. 60-75. London:
Routledge. [password security]
Helland, Christopher. (2007). “Diaspora on the Electronic
Frontier: Developing Virtual Connections with Sacred Homelands”.
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 12: 956-976.
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue3/helland.html
Christensen, Neil Blair. (1999). “Inuit in Cyberspace:
Practising and Constructing Computer-Mediated Space”. Online
paper.
Jacobs, Stephen. (2007). “Virtually Sacred: The Performance of
Asynchronous Cyber-Rituals in Online Spaces”. Journal of
Computer-Mediated Communication 12: 1103-1121.
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue3/jacobs.html
Gammack, John. (2002). “Mindscapes and Internet-mediated
Communication”. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 7 (3)
at
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol7/issue3/gammack.html
Forte, Maximilian C. (2006). “Searching for a Centre in the
Digital Ether: Notes on the Indigenous Caribbean Resurgence on
the Internet.” In Maximilian C. Forte, ed. Indigenous Resurgence
in the Contemporary Caribbean: Amerindian Survival and Revival,
pp. 253-269. New York: Peter Lang.
Forte, Maximilian C. (2003). “Caribbean Aboriginals Online:
Digitized Culture, Networked Representation.” In Indigenous
Affairs: Special Issue on Indigenous Peoples and Information
Technology. Guest edited by Kyra Marie Landzelius. No. 2: 32-37.
Forte, Maximilian C. (2002). “‘We are not Extinct’: The Revival
of Carib and Taino Identities, the Internet, and the
Transformation of Offline Indigenes into Online ‘N-digenes’.” Sincronía: An Electronic Journal of Cultural Studies. Spring.
http://sincronia.cucsh.udg.mx/CyberIndigen.htm
Kang, Jerry. (2000). “Cyber-Race”. Harvard Law Review 113 (5):
1130-1208. [password required]
Whitaker, Mark P. “Tamilnet.com: Some Reflections on Popular
Anthropology, Nationalism, and the Internet”. [password
required]