[Air-L] internet/flesh "realms"

Tom Boellstorff tboellst at uci.edu
Sat Feb 9 17:06:20 PST 2013


In terms of the internet/flesh "realms" issue - this is something I'm going to working on quite a bit I hope, and I discuss it in some detail in "Rethinking Digital Anthropology" (In Digital Anthropology. Heather A. Horst and Daniel Miller, editors. Pp. 39–60. London: Berg, 2012.)

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> There's been a lot written and researched on this already.
> But the issue keeps coming on. (I really wish scholarship were more 
> cumulative.)
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> In addition to the items posted in the previous AoIR list, may I suggest
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> Nathan Jurgenson's theoretical essays on "digital dualism", such as
> http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2011/09/13/digital-dualism-and-the-fallacy-of-web-objectivity/
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> The Rainie-Wellman _Networked_ book, especially Part II
> http://www.amazon.com/Networked-New-Social-Operating-System/dp/0262017199/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325258020&sr=1-1
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> which itself picks up on writing I've done for 15 years, such as
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> "An Electronic Group is Virtually a Social Network"
> "Physical Place and Cyber Place: The Rise of Personalized Networking"
> ""Personal Relationships: On and Off the Internet" (with Jeff Boase)
> "Social Connectivity in America" with Hua (Helen) Wang
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> all get-able on my website
> http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/publications/index.html
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> Enjoy,
>  Barry Wellman
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