how should we manage to collect and disseminate e-

cultural information?

APAN 26: sustainable networkingaugust 4-8, 2008

queenstown, new zealand

collaborative e-culturean anthropological perspective

p. kerim friedmankerim.oxus.net

ci.ndhu.edu.tw

ndap.org.tw

savageminds.org

fournineandahalf.com

anthropologists on collaboration

ethnographic “informants”

80s post-colonial critique

“collaborators”

question of authorial “voice”

production vs. dissemination

can anthropology be remixed?

three case-studies

wikipedia bias

“most of the people who work on wikipedia

are white, male technocrats from the

US and europe.”- ethan zuckerman

What they write about:

• technology

• science fiction

• libertarianism

• life in the US/Europe

animeafrican literature

Wikipedia:BIAS

image ethics

Attention Field Workers: great offense can be caused if this material is shown to tribal

Aboriginal people. The author strongly requests in the

interests of future research that this not be done.

- Catherine Ellis(quoted by Nicolas Peterson)

Don’t look!

mukurtuarchive.org

anti-social networks?

Homophily refers to the fact that “you’re likely to

befriend, talk to, work with and share ideas with people who’ve got common ethnic,

religious and economic background with you.”

- Ethan Zuckerman

readers also liked...

“MySpace has most of the kids who are socially

ostracized at school because they are geeks, freaks, or queers....The goodie two shoes, jocks, athletes, or

other ‘good’ kids are now going to Facebook.”

- Danah Boyd

% net users by country

globalvoicesonline.org

institutional barriers to cooperation

research guidelines

limited access

• http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2004/09/28/systemic-biases-in-wikipedia/

• http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/04/25/homophily-serendipity-xenophilia/

• http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/13/arts/13BOOK.html

• http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html

• Peterson, N. 2003. “The Changing Photographic Contract: Aborigines and Image Ethics.” In Photography's Other Histories, ed. C. Pinney, and N. Peterson, 119-145. Durham: Duke University Press.