A passage from Walter Benjamin, though from a different time, could just as well be said today of those who snicker at the ‘obscenity’ of social media.
“(In Moscow I lived in a hotel in which almost all the rooms were occupied by Tibetan lamas who had come to Moscow for a congress of Buddhist churches. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘social media’
Recruiting, online ‘indecency’, and the professionalization of social media
Web 2.0 Activism Case Studies
Location: The Change You Want To See, Brooklyn, NY
Address: 84 Havemeyer Street, Storefront, Brooklyn, NY
Date: 17 December 2008 @ 7.30 PM - 10.30 PM
Over the past two years, Web 2.0 technologies have matured and so have the methods activist use to employ them. In 2008, activists from around the world used Web 2.0 to take [...]
Anthropology, connoisseurship, and social media
In a post on “Anthropology as connoisseurship”, Rex of Savage Minds observes:
Obsession with the details also does not fly well in an age when what we are supposed to be doing is creating generalizing social science. So perhaps connoisseurship as a model of anthropology has drawbacks both for the politically engaged and the scientifically neutral. [...]
