University

Person, Position

Miscellaneous Relevant Comments

Resources for Students?

CMA Classes?

Faculty Interest?

Lehigh University

John Gatewood

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Not much except encouragement. Within a year or two, we may have faculty savvy about doing questionnaires online, but at the moment, we all use paper forms for data collection. I'm hoping to learn how to collect 'cognitive/psychological' data using personal computers (e.g., reaction time as a measure of salience and/or processing speed). Only one of us (Robert Rosenwein <rer6@lehigh.edu>) has actually done research on cyberculture -- 'romance via the Internet.'

Rosenwein teaches an advanced undergraduate/graduate course on 'The Sociology of Cyberspace.'

Robert Rosenwein, noted above.

Millersville University

(Anonymous)

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Nothing.

Not at the present time.

None of the current faculty, but we will be hiring a new tenure track faculty member in 2005-2006.

Oakland University

(Anonymous)

I forwarded your request to one of our faculty--Jim Dow--who since the 70s has been advocating (and publishing about)the integration of computer technology into anthropology. 

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Oakland University

Jim Dow, Professor of Anthropology, Dept. of Soc. and Anth.

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WebCT and Web pages are use in anthropology classes. Students do research with Internet resources in anthropology.

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Not that I know of. The Internet is used more as a tool than an object of study.

Pennsylvania State University

Dean Snow

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We have a big proposal in to the NSF program in Human Social Dynamics to develop a specialized archaeological search engine. We think that this is badly needed. Consider how difficult it currently is to answer a simple question like "where are the prehistorical palisaded villages of the Eastern Woodlands located?"

Internet/cyberspace, or related areas? (graduate or undergraduate) We have a GIS lab and a course on GIS in archaeology.

Yes, several

Pierce College

Mary L. Russell, Instructor, Anthropology

Thank you for your inquiry.  None of us at Pierce College are offering CMA at this time and no faculty members/students currently have an expressed interest in this area.  I would like to be notified when the CMA page is finished.  I am aware of some online anthropology courses and find them intriguing.  I don't know enough about CMA to comment on it's usefulness; it certainly seems to have possibilities--particularly in terms of providing students the opportunity "experience" fieldwork in cyberspace.

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Purdue University

Myrdene Anderson, Associate Professor of Anthropology (and of Linguistics), Department of Sociology and Anthropology

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open mind

university heavily invested internet augments various classes but in general the quality of data gleaned cannot be vetted

not particularly, but i've advised a number of theses

Queens College, The City University of New York

(Anonymous)

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 I, perhaps, have a broader definition of anthropology than you.The department carries on a wide array of computer mediated and computer assisted teaching and research.  Most of this is carried out by our linguistic anthropologists, biological anthropologists and archaeologists.   If your survey is really concerned with the narrower theme of the ethnography of cyberspace, we do not have cultural anthropologists specializing in this area.

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Rhode Island College

(Anonymous)

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We are technology poor, thus have little to offer at this time.

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Not that I know of.

Ripon College

(Anonymous)

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We do not do anything in particular in this area, though I personally find it interesting.  We are a two person department with one cultural anthropologist.

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Sewanee: The University of the South

Richard A. O'Connor

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Nothing, really.  We have the eHRAF at the library but I doubt that's what you mean.

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I'm Director of my university's Center for Teaching.  So I'm concerned with these issues but I'm not currently researching in these areas.

Southern Methodist University

(Anonymous)

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Not much. Students and faculty work on the internet on their own with a high level of skill. One students is quite intersted in studying the internet.

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Not that I know of.

Southwest Missouri State University

William A. Wedenoja

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Nothing in particular.  Other than one faculty member using GIS in ethnography of Africa, another using GIS in archaeology.  Some interest in web based ethnography, especially pictures.

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No.  However, the library webmaster is also an anthropologist.  I will forward this questionnaire to him.  He does a lot of research on the internet but I don't know that he sees it as anthropology.

Stanford University

Claudia A Engel

Stanford has two anthropology departments, but Anthropological Sciences does not deal with those issues and the department of Cultural and Social Anthropology here does not yet offer anything in that area, even though we are getting more requests from students now.I myself will offer a course in Fall on Virtual Ethnography and Virtual Communities and have the outline attached. The few other courses that have been taught here at other departments typically relate to more specific subfields, which I think is telling, for example points to the need of a multidisciplinary approach. You may take a look at  http://www.stanford.edu/class/educ298/  http://hci.stanford.edu/cs377/cs377-schiano.html  http://www.stanford.edu/class/pwr3-25/  I also find it challenging as an anthropologist to find appropriate theories to frame the research, for example check out May - Keythinkers for the Information Society.

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