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CYBER
SPACE
ETHNO-
GRAPHY


Dr. Max Forte

CONCORDIA
UNIVERSITY

Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology

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]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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