Anthropology of YouTube - News Releases. Press contact: Donna Urschel (202) 707-1639Public contact: Robert Saladini (202) 707-2692 Michael Wesch To Discuss "The Anthropology of YouTube" at Library of Congress on June 23 More video material has been uploaded to YouTube in the past six months than has ever been aired on all major networks combined, according to cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch.
About 88 percent is new and original content, most of which has been created by people formerly known as "the audience. " Wesch will discuss the three-year-old video-sharing Web site in a lecture titled "The Anthropology of YouTube" at 4 p.m. on Monday, June 23, in the Montpelier Room on the sixth floor of the Library of Congress’ James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. Sponsored by the Library’s John W. According to Wesch, it took tens of thousands of years for writing to emerge after humans spoke their first words.
Enter YouTube, which is not just a technology. Through a generous endowment from John W. Digital Ethnography – @ Kansas State University. Anthropology in Practice: Seeking Authenticity in Facebook Profiles. I was chatting with a friend who is in the process of job hunting the other day and he told me that he friended a recruiter on Facebook. Perplexed, I asked if he was concerned about the information the recruiter might see. "No," he said. "I'm not really the drunken reverie poster. " He also does not use features such as lists to organize contacts and restrict access to parts of his profile. This exchange suggests to me that the boundaries between online social networks are still in flux. So far, the general suggestion has been that users should use LinkedIn for professional contacts and keep Facebook for personal ones—or make use of the lists feature to set privacy settings accordingly.
We've heard the horror stories about the times when friending a supervisor went astray (seriously, Google Facebook fired—there's even a group!) Researcher Soraya Mehdizadeh (2010) proposes that sites like Facebook and MySpace have contributed to the rise of narcissistic tendencies. Cited: "Anthropologist View on Social Network Analysis and Data Mining" by Alvin W. Wolfe. Keywords Data mining, Network thinking, Network analysis, Supranational sociocultural systems Abstract This paper is a reasonable summary of a lifetime of work on network analysis. An anthropologist shares with the ‘‘SNA and data mining community’’ his own anthropological perspective framed during more than five decades of network thinking about a broad range of anthropological problems. For 50 years he has viewed all people, things, and ideas in dynamic relationships. The Psychology and Anthropology of Social Networking. | Thought Economics.
In this article, we speak to Professor Robin Dunbar, Head of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Oxford about the psychology and anthropology of social networks, together with their impact on human behaviour and the structure of our society. Vikas Shah, Thought Economics, April 23rd 2009 For over a century, the phrase “social network” has been used to describe social structures made of nodes (individuals or organisations) which are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency such as values, visions, ideas, financial exchange, friendship, interests, conflict or trade.
Social Networking services have been around since the inception of the web. Academics and commentators have understandably become interested in social networks, and their impacts to society. In 1916, L.J. [Vikas Shah] Why are people drawn to social-networking sites? [Professor Dunbar] “We can see an early example when the mobile phone took off. Social Networking Sites & Social Science Research Project.