| This page provides basic information on projects, Philipp Budka was or still is involved in. ongoing projects -
The e-learning project 'eSOWI-STEP - Gemeinsame Studieneingangsphase der Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften' ('Joint Introduction Phase for Students at the Faculty of Social Sciences'), conducted at the eLearning Centre of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Vienna, is aiming to develop an e-learning supported environment for beginning students of the social sciences. -
Philipp Budka's dissertation project at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Vienna intends to investigate the usage of internet technologies by First Nation peoples in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. In doing so, it focuses on the production of internet media and how these technologies are practiced in the indigenous communities; particularly in respect to the creation of networks and communities and the ways indigenous culture and identities are constructed and represented.
The focus of the project is the First Nation internet service provider K-Net and in particular MyKnet.org, a K-Net service that provides community members with an online space for personal homepages. With this online environment as case study, the project is aiming to learn about
a) how people construct their identity online,
b) how people use the internet to establish and strengthen family, friendship and community ties, and
c) how people utilize new media to represent First Nation communities, their members and their real life experiences.
For detailed information take a look at the MyKnet.org research website and the shortened English version of the PhD project's concept (PDF, 32 KB). completed projects -
The e-learning project Strategien für vernetztes Lernen (strategies for networked learning) was conducted at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology (University of Vienna) aiming
a) to create dedicated learning materials for undergraduate students;
b) to teach these materials with the help of different online learning systems, tools, and environments;
c) to develop blended learning scenarios and strategies for social and cultural anthropology students;
d) to evaluate e-learning tools and blended learning scenarios. -
Project LINC was created to learn about and to learn from the articulations of indigenous presence online, as gleaned from the perspective of indigenous persons. This was done by means of a web-based survey that invited indigenous persons and groups whose cyber-activities, in their respective ways, contributed to the re-presentations and brokerage of indigeneity online.
Project LINC was conducted by Kyra Landzelius (University of Gothenburg) and Philipp Budka (University of Vienna) and funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. -
The Directory of Austrian Researchers on Latin America and the Caribbean (PDF, 1 MB) contains contact information, affiliations as well as thematic and geographic priorities of 186 Austrian researchers. -
OEKU-Online is a transdisciplinary multimedia content pool on the World Wide Web about the interconnections of economy, ecology and culture. -
Co-development of a Teaching Tool (CTT) within the scope of the EU project 'COMET - Competitive Metropolises' at the Institute for Urban and Regional Research of the Austrian Academy of Science.
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Latin American Studies Online (LASON) is an interdisciplinary online learning system offering didactically structured content about Latin America for students and teachers alike. The objective of the learning system is to create a virtual learning space counterbalancing the lack of a 'Department of Latin American Studies' at Austrian universities. - Indigenous Groups and Computer Networks was Philipp Budka's MA project at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology (University of Vienna) giving an overview on indigenousness and indigeneity on the internet from an online perspective (in German):
Budka, Philipp. 2002. Indigene Gruppen und Computernetzwerke: Eine ethnographische Online-Untersuchung (Indigenous groups and computer networks: an ethnographic online study). Unpublished MA Thesis, Wien: Universität Wien. (PDF, 4 MB) (You need Acrobat Reader to read the PDF documents.) For more information on these projects, please contact Philipp Budka. [page top] |
