digital subjectivities, unhuman subjects, and the end of anthropology /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Neil L. Whitehead and Michael Wesch
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243 pages (large print) ;
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24 cm
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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The mutual co-construction of online and onground in cyborganic: making an ethnography of networked social media speak to challenges of the posthuman / Jennifer Cool -- We were always human / Zeynep Tufekci -- Manufacturing and encountering "human" in the age of digital reproduction / Matthew Bernius -- The digital graveyard: online social networking sites as vehicles of remembrance / Jenny Ryan -- Anonymous, anonymity, and the end(s) of identity and groups online: lessons from the "first internet-based superconsciousness" / Michael Wesch and the digital ethnography class of spring 2009 -- Splitting and layering at the interface: mediating Indian diasporas across generations / Radhika Gajjala and Sue Ellen McComas -- Avatar: a posthuman perspective on virtual worlds / Gray Graffam -- Technology, representation, and the "e-thropologist": the shape-shifting field among native Amazonians / Stephanie W. Alemán -- The adventures of Mark and Olly: the pleasures and horrors of anthropology on TV / James Hoesterey -- Invisible Caboclos and vagabond ethnographers: a look at ethnographic engagement in twenty-first century Amazonia / Kent Wisniewski -- Marginal bodies, altered states, and subhumans: (dis)articulations between physical and virtual realities in Centro São Paolo / Michael Heckenberger -- Are we there yet?: the end of anthropology is beyond the human / Neil L. Whitehead