Academic Matters

The academic resources page is most useful for anthropologists or anyone in certain academic fields, but it contains resources of general value to most in higher education.

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Muddled Range Theory

• Talking Pomo: What do people mean by "postmodernism"?
• The Sociology of Knowledge

Science and Technology Studies (STS)

• Alternative Medicine and the Appropriation of Scientific Discourse : how homeopathy and radionics imitate the language and practices of science
• An Unusual Anthropology of High Energy Physics : an unusual way of thinking about high energy physics
• Theoretically Speaking: the Sociology of Space and Time at the Bloomberg Physics Lab at Johns Hopkins University

Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) Studies

• A Computer-Mediated Communications Bibliography by Sheizaf Raeli
• The Sociolinguistics of Email : discourse and power on an email list
• What's Virtual About Virtual Culture? : if it impacts our real lives, is it "merely virtual"?
• From Orality to Teleliteracy : a McLuhanite meditation on how changes in communication technologies change cognitive processes

Telecommunications Studies

• Screencraft Analysis of the "Atomic Cafe" : a "mockumentary" video on nuclear weapons 'safety' videos from the 1940s, 50s, and 60s
• The Telecommunications Act of 1996: it will promote monopoly : What's wrong with the Telecom Bill of 1996
• Telecom Act of 1996- Handout

Resources for Researchers

• Anne Balsamo's Cyberpunk Bibliography
• Using Computers in Qualitative Research: Can the computer be the qualitative (as well as the quantitative) researcher's friend?
• A Content Analysis Annotated Bibliography : Articles on using computer-assisted content analysis
• A CyberAnthropology Bibliography
• Electronic Anthropology: Advancing the Discipline through New Technologies

Anthropology on the Net

• ANTHAP - applied anthro on the Net
• Anthropology Resources on the Net - from the AAA
• Center for Archaeo-Astronomy
• American Anthropological Assocations - warning, AAA.org will take you to the wrong place
• Funding for anthropology at U. Washington
• EthnoGraphics Lab - makers of anthropological multimedia

Some Miscellaneous Academic Links

• The Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis (CAQDAS) Project
• QualPage - resources for qualitative research
• Science and Technology Studies Resources at U. Alberta
• Directory of Scholarly Academic E-Conferences
• JHU's Project MUSE - scholarly journals online
• Columbia's Internet Library - more Ejournals
• Bibliofind - find used, rare, and out-of-print books
• Federal Grants money retriever - locate federal research funding
• Foundation Center - another good source for finding (private) grants and fellowships
• Chronicle of Higher Education
• Academic Employment Network - monster.com for academics
• Academic Position Network - another job search service - these days we need all the help we can get
• Scholarly Society Meetings - find calendars of academic conferences for different disciplines
• Internet Public Library
• University Links
• Distance Learning Sites
• Online Universities - two sites for locating online education programs
• Syllabus Web - using technology in education effectively
• ProfNet - are you an expert in something? Mating habits of warthogs? Profnet links you to the media
• Science Wars site - debates about the sociology of science, and the scientificity of social science (among other things)

Some Miscellaneous Online Academic Centres

• UT-Austin's ACTLAB - for digital culture research
• Principia Cybernetica - a cybernetic compendium
• Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls
• Society for Nonlinear Dynamics - utter chaos
• Santa Fe Institute - simulating nature and culture
• IEEE Social Impacts of Technology