Scott MacLeod's
Anthropological Research
Scott MacLeod's Anthropological Research Interests
Scott's
research focuses on the ethnography of information technology, especially
vis-à-vis counterculture (scott-macleod.blogspot.com
- BLOG ADDED TO DAILY), and particularly
virtual ethnography (see Webnographer.org's wiki),
as well as on UNESCO World Heritage
Sites. The detailed, explanatory potential of anthropology & sociology
in relation to the study of the social effects of information technology,
and to internet ethnography and tourism studies, provides a fascinating
intersection of approaches / disciplines / methodologies, and is my starting
place. I'd also like to theorize / "theorize" anthropology,
especially vis-à-vis computing. I'm interested, in addition, in
questions of anthropology vis-à-vis science. And I'm interested
in anthropological, linguistic and philosophical questions of representation
and language.
I'm
currently envisioning and developing a global, virtual, free-to-students,
open, (potentially credit- and degree-granting ~ Ph.D., M.D., & Music
school, I.B. etc.) multilingual World
University & School, with open, free content at great universities
(e.g. MIT, Ivy League Schools, Stanford, U.C. Berkeley, Oxford, T.U.M.,
Sorbonne, L.M.U., Juilliard, Cambridge, Cal Tech, etc.) as key players,
using a Wikipedia
with MIT Open Course Ware 'model.' Teach with your webcam, or interactively
in Second Life, or take a course at World University & School. Here
are WUaS's group pages - facebook.com/group.php?gid=48753608141
& groups.google.com/group/World-University-and-School
~ please join! World University & School is for the developing world
(OLPC countries) and everyone. And in relation to this, I'd like to help
explore converging and networking Second Life, OpenSim, Google Earth,
and MIT's Open Course Ware, to facilitate
an emerging virtual University~Universe, both real and fantastic. I'm
also presently writing an ethnography of Harbin Hot Springs, with a virtual
world aspect.
In
the fall, spring and summer of 2007 - 2008, I taught "Society and
Information Technology" - socinfotech.pbwiki.com -
on Berkman Island in Second Life (not on Harvard University's faculty)
- slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/113/47/25
(this requires at least one gigabyte of RAM). I teach courses in anthropology
and sociology, both in real life and in the 3-D virtual world of Second
Life, which is 'placeless.' In the autumn of 2008, I taught "Society
and Information Technology" on Penn State Isle II in Second Life,
as a Penn State University instructor.
At
the University of Edinburgh (D.R.) where I studied from 2003 - 2004, I
conducted a virtual ethnographic study of the UNESCO World Heritage Site,
St. Kilda, the island archipelago 40 miles west of the outer Hebrides
on the west coast of Scotland, which was inhabited for more than 2000
years until 1930. In the 2000-2003 school years, I studied at the graduate
level at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of
California, Santa Barbara (M.A.), and I studied again at U.C. Berkeley
in 2008-2009.
My
Second Life avatar's name is Aphilo Aarde, ~ add me as a friend, in-world.
:) And here's my Facebook page: facebook.com/macleod,
~ add me as a friend here, too. :) And at twitter.com, my tweet is scottmacleod.
At Del.icio.us: http://delicious.com/scottm100
I
also explore questions of how we can elicit loving
bliss neurophysiologically, naturally.
In the falls
of 1999 & 2005, I traveled on Semester at Sea, and here are some impressions
from those voyages: Semester at Sea.
I enjoy writing
poetry, and here are some haiku-ish.
Click on the 'poetry' tag on my blog {above} to read or share more poetry.
~
Scott
World
University & School
worlduniversity.wikia.com
A
Global, Virtual, Open, Free-to-Students,
(Potentially
Credit- & Degree-Granting),
Multilingual University & School,
with Great Universities as Key Players,
using a Wikipedia with MIT OCW model,
for the Developing World and Everyone
groups.google.com/group/World-University-and-School
scott@scottmacleod.com
home:
scottmacleod.com
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