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This page provides resources on (the anthropology of) cyberculture and the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), such as the internet, by indigenous groups, organisations and networks.

These resources can be accessed
1) in form of annotated hyperlinks to relevant websites and other online resources and
2) in form of bibliographies.

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Links on (the anthropology of) cyberculture
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Center for Digital Discourse and Culture: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/index2.html
The CDDC provides one of the world's first university based digital points-of-publication for new forms of scholarly communication, academic research, and cultural analysis.

Cibercultura: la rete pensa la rete: http://www.cybercultura.it (English: http://www.cybercultura.it/index_eng.asp)
An Italian website dealing with cyberculture from anthropological and sociological perspective maintained by Vincenzo Bitti.

Cyberculture Working Group: http://www.otal.umd.edu/amst/cwg/
The Cyberculture Working Group is a collection of University of Maryland and neighboring graduate students and faculty members from across the disciplines interested in exploring the intersections between the Internet, culture, and society.

Digital Borderlands: http://www.jmk.su.se/digitalborderlands/digital.htm
A cybercultural research project conducted from 1998-2000 at Linköping University, Sweden.

Robin Haman's Cybersoc Blog: http://www.cybersoc.com/
Online community research and management / social impact of digital technology.

The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach: http://ethnonet.gold.ac.uk/
No longer available at the server. (Jan. 07)
Companion website to Daniel Miller's and Don Slater's book on the internet in Trinidad.

Alexander Knorr's webpage on cyberanthropology: http://xirdal.lmu.de/introduction/cyberanthropology.html
Introduction to the anthropology of cyberculture.

Projektgruppe Kulturraum Internet: http://duplox.wz-berlin.de/
Website with information on the German project group and it's projects, e.g. "Net culture and network organization".

Pierre Lévy on Cyberkultur: http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/2/2044/1.html
An article in the German online journal Telepolis on cyberculture.

The Media and Communication Studies Site: http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/index.html
Contains extended bibliographies on internet and identity, virtual communities, etc.

Steve Mizrach's CyberAnthropology Page: http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/cyberanthropos.html
The CyberAnthropology Page is dedicated to research on cyberculture, and the formation of new cultures and cultural practices in cyberspace.
What is CyberAnthropology? by Seeker12: http://www.lastplace.com/page206.htm

NewMediaStudies.com: http://www.newmediastudies.com/index.htm
Website on New Media Studies with a link to the old website of the project.

The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies: http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/
An online, not-for-profit organisation whose purpose is to research, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture.

Frank Schaap's Fragment.nl: http://www.fragment.nl/resources/
Resources on cyberculture, identity and gender.

Don Slater's New Culture and Economies website: http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/slater/
No longer available at the server. (Jan. 07)
Contains a section on the sociology of the internet.
Don Slater's webpage at LSE: http://www.lse.ac.uk/people/d.slater@lse.ac.uk/

 

Bibliography on (the anthropology of) cyberculture
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Baym, Nancy K. 1995. 'The Emergence of Community in Computer Mediated Communication', in S. Jones (ed.), Cybersociety. Computer-Mediated Communication and Community. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Budka, Philipp, Kremser, Manfred. 2004. 'CyberAnthropology - Anthropology of CyberCulture', in S. Khittel, B. Plankensteiner and M. Six-Hohenbalken (eds.), Contemporary Issues in Socio-Cultural Anthropology. Perspectives and Research Activities from Austria. Wien: Loecker Verlag. (PDF, 715 KB)

Escobar, Arturo. 1994. 'Welcome to Cyberia. Notes on the Anthropology of Cyberculture', Current Anthropology 35/3: 211-231.

Hakken, David. 1999. Cyborgs@Cyberspace. An Ethnographer Looks to the Future. New York & London: Routledge.

Hine, Christine. 2000. Virtual Ethnography. London: Sage Publications.

Hine, Christine (ed.). 2005. Virtual Methods. Issues in Social Research on the Internet. Oxford & New York: Berg Publishers.

Kolko, Beth, Nakamura, Lisa, Rodman, Gilbert B. (eds.). 2000. Race in Cyberspace. New York: Routledge.

Kremser, Manfred. 1999. 'CyberAnthropology und die neuen Räume des Wissens', Mitteilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien 129: 275-291.

Miller, Daniel, Slater, Don. 2000. The Internet. An Ethnographic Approach. Oxford: Berg.

Miller, Daniel, Slater, Don. 2003. 'Ethnography and the Extreme Internet', in: T. H. Eriksen (ed.), Globalisation. Studies in Anthropology. London: Pluto Press.

Wellman, Barry, Haythornthwaite, Caroline (eds.). 2002. The Internet in Everyday Life. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.

Woolgar, Steve (ed.). 2002. Virtual Society? Technology, Cyberbole, Reality. Oxford: University Press.

Zurawski, Nils. 1999. 'Among the Internauts: Notes from the cyberfield', Cybersociology No. 6. Online: http://www.cybersociology.com

Zurawski, Nils. 2000. Virtuelle Ethnizität: Studien zu Identität, Kultur und Internet. Frankfurt am Main: Lang.

 

Links on Indigenous Groups, Organisations, Networks and ICTs
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Maximilian C. Forte: http://faculty.capebretonu.ca/cdr/faculty_mforte.htm and http://webdb.lse.ac.uk/ethnobase/researcher_info.asp?id=44
Anthropologist working on the use of the internet among indigenous groups, particularly in the Caribbean.

NativeWeb: http://www.nativeweb.org/
Resources for indigenous cultures around the world.

RICTA: http://www.ricta.ca/
Canadian research network on Research on ICT with Aboriginal Communities.

 

Bibliography on Indigenous Groups, Organisations, Networks and ICTs
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Aboriginal Canada Portal Working Group. 2004. Final Report of the 3rd Annual National Connecting Indigenous Peoples in Canada Forum. Ottawa.

Belausteguigoitia, Marisa. 2003. 'The Zapatista rebellion and the use of technology: Indian women online?', Indigenous Affairs 2/2003: 18-25.

Belausteguigoitia, Marisa. 2006. 'On line, off line and in line: The Zapatista rebellion and the uses of technology by Indian women', in: K. Landzelius (ed.), Native on the net: Indigenous and diasporic peoples in the virtual age. London & New York: Routledge.

Budka, Philipp. 2004. 'Indigene Widerstandsbewegungen im Kontext von Globalisierung und Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien: Das Fallbeispiel der EZLN in Mexiko', Journal für Entwicklungspolitik 20/1: 33-44. (PDF, 56 KB)

Castells, Manuel. 1997. The Power of Identity. The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture Vol. 2. Oxford: Blackwell.

Christensen, Neil Blair. 2003. Inuit in Cyberspace: Embedding Offline Identities Online. Kopenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press.

Cisler, Steve 1998. 'Introduction: The Internet and Indigenous Groups', Cultural Survival Quaterly 21/4.

Cultural Survival Quarterly. 1998. Special Theme Issue: The Internet and Indigenous Groups 21/4. Online: http://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/csq/index.cfm?id=21.4

Cultural Survival Quaterly. 2005. Special Theme Issue: Indigenous Peoples Bridging the Digital Divide 29/2. Online: http://209.200.101.189/publications/csq/index.cfm?id=29.2

Fiser, Adam, Clement, Andrew, Walmark, Brian. 2006. 'The K-Net Development Process: A Model for First Nations Broadband Community Networks', CRACIN Working Paper No.12. Online: http://www3.fis.utoronto.ca/research/iprp/cracin/publications/workingpapersseries.htm

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"', Sincronia 2002. Online: http://sincronia.cucsh.udg.mx/CyberIndigen.htm

Forte, Maximilian C. 2003. 'Caribbean Aboriginals Online: Digitized Culture, Networked Representation', Indigenous Affairs 2/2003: 32-37.

Forte, Maximilian C. 2006. 'Amerindian@Caribbean: Internet indigeneity in the electronic generation of Carib and Taino identities', in: K. Landzelius (ed.), Native on the net: Indigenous and diasporic peoples in the virtual age. London & New York: Routledge.

Garrido, Maria, Halavais, Alexander. 2003. 'Mapping networks of support for the Zapatista movement: Applying social-network analysis to study contemporary social movements', in: M. McCaughey, M. D. Ayers (ed.), Cyberactivism. Online Activism in Theory and Practice. London & New York: Routledge.

Gideon, Valerie. 2006. 'Canadian aboriginal peoples tackling e-health: Seeking ownership versus integration', in: K. Landzelius (ed.), Native on the net: Indigenous and diasporic peoples in the virtual age. London & New York: Routledge.

Ginsburg, Faye. 1991. 'Indigenous Media: Faustian Contract or Global Village?', Cultural Anthropology 6/1: 92-112.

Ginsburg, Faye. 2002. 'Screen Memories: Resignifying the Traditional in Indigenous Media', in: F. Ginsburg, L. Abu-Lughod, B. Larkin (eds.), Media Worlds. Anthropology on New Terrain. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Ginsburg, Faye. 2007. 'Rethinking the digital age', EASA Media Anthropology Network Working Paper Series. Online: http://www.media-anthropology.net/workingpapers.htm

Herring, Susan C., Estrada, Zilia C. 2004. 'Representation of indigenous language groups of North and South America on the World Wide Web', in: F. Sudweeks, C. Ess (eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication 2004. Murdoch: Murdoch University.

Indigenous Working Group for Indigenous Affairs. 2003. Special Theme Issue: Indigenous Peoples and Information Technology. Indigenous Affairs 2/2003.

Landzelius, Kyra. 2003. 'Paths of indigenous cyber-activism', Indigenous Affairs 2/2003: 6-13.

Landzelius, Kyra (ed.). 2006. Native on the net: Indigenous and diasporic peoples in the virtual age. London & New York: Routledge.

Landzelius, Kyra. 2006a. 'Introduction: Native on the net', in: K. Landzelius (ed.), Native on the net: Indigenous and diasporic peoples in the virtual age. London & New York.

Landzelius, Kyra. 2006b. 'Postscript: Vox populi for the margins?', in: K. Landzelius (ed.), Native on the net: Indigenous and diasporic peoples in the virtual age. London & New York.

Mader, Elke. 2007. 'Encounters with Otavalo. Ritual, Identities, and the Internet', in: J. Repic, et.al. (eds.), Places of Encounter. Ljubljana, Zupanic's collections.

Mizrach, Steve. 1999. Natives on the Electronic Frontier: Technology and Cultural Change on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation. Unpublished PhD Thesis. Gainsville: University of Florida.

Polly, Jean Armour. 1998. 'Standing Stones in Cyberspace: The Oneida Nation's Territory on the Web', Cultural Survival Quaterly 21/4: 37-41.

Prins, Harald E. L.. 2002. 'Visual media and primitivist perplex: Colonial fantasies, indigenous imagination, and advocacy in North America', in: F. Ginsburg, L. Abu-Lughod, B. Larkin (ed.), Media worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press.

Ramirez, Ricardo, Aitkin, Helen, Jamieson, Rebekah, Richardson, Don. 2003. Harnessing ICTS: A Canadian First Nations Experience - Introduction to K-Net. Institute for Connectivity in the Americas. Ottawa: IDRC. Online: http://www.eldis.org/static/DOC15297.htm

Srinivasan, Ramesh. 2006. 'Indigenous, Ethnic And Cultural Articulations of New Media', International Journal of Cultural Studies 9/4: 497-518.

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