Talk:Digital anthropology

Can somebody actually confirm that the field of Cyber Anthology exists? I'm no expert on this, but it almost sounds like something somebody made up, *expecting* it to exist, when it doesn't really get studied anywhere. This isn't to say it *shouldn't* be, but if there are no academics in the field, no research being done, then there shouldn't really be a page saying it exists.

Yet. :)

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Whether anthro* exists in cyber form or not, this stub looks dreadful.

LukaRejec 23:07, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

cyberanthropology, does it exist?

To be honest, I somewhat stumbled over this stub, and I guess it's my duty to expand it. Yes, cyberanthropology exists. Within anthropology it still is an 'emerging' field, and there exists no consensus definition of it yet. I pasted in my definition, which was a part of the call of papers for a workshop on cyberanthropology which I organised at last years conference of the German Anthropological Association. Here's the original call for papers: http://xirdal.lmu.de/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2005/02/17#GAA05_cyberanthropology My weblog ( http://xirdal.lmu.de/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi ) and website ( http://xirdal.lmu.de/ ) are the visible end of a research-project in cyberanthropology. There's much more on the subject, especially different viewpoints. I'll gather it and fuse it to a larger and more comprehensive article, especially taking care of perspectives different from mine.

Another thing: I'd prefer the spelling 'cyberanthropology', but do not know how to change that. Is it necessary to delete the article 'Cyber anthropology' and replace it by a new one called 'cyberanthropology'?

zeph 15:33, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

cyberanthropology article revision

Obviously I am not yet familiar with Wikipedia's interface and working-principle. I beg your pardon for that. Now I found the older discussion on deletion of the article 'Cyber anthropology'. Obviously someone had copied and pasted a machine-translated article and violated copyright by that. What I copied and pasted into the article is my own intellectual property, so I am perfectly allowed to do so. Furthermore my material already is published at my website under a CC-licence, so everybody else is allowed to use my material (if s/he deems it worthwhile) for e.g. Wikipedia. Attribution is required, though.

zeph 15:33, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I fixed a couple grammar errors and matched the spelling to the article title before I read the talk page, if you (meaning Zephyrin), as the resident expert on the field, prefer the other spelling then maybe there's a way to redirect this entire article to Cyberanthropology. Jseipel 07:20, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]