Knowtex

Neocortex matters more than social enhancements à la Facebook, says Robin Dunbar's number Dunbar in a recent article. Will these results get him a Nobel Prize?

What kind of social structures Web users contribute to put in place? And what do monkeys have to do with it? Text presented by A. A. Casilli at the conference “Web Culture: New Modes of Knowledge, New Sociabilities”, Villa Gillet, Lyon (France), February 10th, 2011.

Pdf de l'article d'Antonio A. Casilli (2005) Les Avatars bleus. Autour de trois stratégies d’emprunt culturel au cœur de la cyberculture, Communications, n. 77, pp. 183-209.

In 1992 Robin Dunbar famously proposed a rough estimate of 150. In 1998, the mean personal network size was of 290. And in 2010 we are now facing an average of 610 personal ties. So - who says more?

The secret as instrumental, situational, in community-maintenance

An anthropologist of hackers dives into what it's like to participate in pro-WikiLeaks digital activism.

PDF of Gary Lee Downey, Joseph Dumit, et Sarah Williams (1995) Cyborg Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, vol. 10, n°. 2, pp. 264-269. Suggested reading for the EHESS Seminar "Corps et TIC" (salle 5, 105 bd Raspail, 9 déc 2010, 17h)

The controversial notion of “Culture of Poverty” is back: attributing moral deficiencies to black people, and them for their own misfortune.