Category Archives: ethnographies

hmm – SL economies…

A says she sees some parellels between how Sudhir Alladi describes the Chicago “underground” economy and SL economies…
hmmm – I’m not sure I agree myself but can be made to see why she thinks so I am sure
well I am going today – so can discuss this f2f (or cellphone to cellphone locally) at [...]

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I have some notes and observations regarding saris on SL

which link to issues of “Othering” – but more on that some other time.

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Cyberbelka in a saree designed by rad Zabibha

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crazy kiya re

This one needs the volume turned on.

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writing the (second)self

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writing self – march 2007

వూరు
“Vooru” – I punch that into the Padma telugu transformer – remember that at the theory cluster meeting they asked me if that was a form of insult.
But of course I cant cut and paste it onto the word document – but it works here – so maybe I should continue the notes here and [...]

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yesterday

I look at other people’s blogs – those that do research in areas similar to mine – at the “new” tech interface. I see that a lot of them are narrating their research thoughts – clearly articulated as such. Either ethnographies, assessment or predictions of such technologies….
I wonder then what my blog is about. I [...]

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“staging authenticities” by itineraries that never take us “home”?

what can I say?
whose voices am I consuming as I say
why can I not say
when you can
but yet you want their authentic voices
what I tell you cannot be trusted
that’s what you say
as if you had heard the authentic
yourself
then why do you need me to reveal it to you
if you know what it should [...]

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fyi

Professor Wiebe Bijker, Chair of the Department of Technology and Society Studies at the University of Maastricht, Netherlands, is “visiting” my class during the month of March. He will be “meeting” us at http://www.cyberdiva.org/729, where members from my Grad class (COMS 729) as well as some of my Phd advisees and my NGO collaborators [...]

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found రవీంద్ర నోట్సు

it goes…
మేము ఇక్కడనుంచి 9 మంది రాజవోలు వర్క్షాప్పుకు వెళ్ళాము…
so now I have to piece together based on all these notes since I cant seem to locate the tapes…

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