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- The anthropology of cyberspace is a minor subbranch of sociocultural anthropology that deals with cybernetic systems, the culturally informed interrelationships between human beings and technologies. These interrelationships include the attempts to fuse technological artifacts with human and other biological organisms, with human society, and with the culturally shaped environment. In the wake of recent discourses growing around metaphors like globalization and information age/information society especially Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) move into cyber anthropology's focus. The complex 'human beings and ICTs' unfolds its relevance for sociocultural anthropology inside the following three main sectors: ICTs as tools for sociocultural anthropologists both in teaching and research. The spectrum reaches from using a personal computer as a typewriter, using and/or generating online-databases and -catalogues, communicating with colleagues and peers via Internet-services, to keeping in touch with informants online, and the theory-based generation of new forms of representation for anthropological knowledge. The latter should especially profit by the 'writing culture' debate and visual anthropology. ICTs in the field. The sociocultural anthropological observation, analysis and interpretation of the consequences of the introduction of ICTs into specific societies and/or groups. (It has to be emphasized that this comprises the whole world, and not "just those" in the traditional field of the discipline, but does not exclude "them" as well. ) Concepts like 'cultural appropriation of technology' and 'ethnography of work' seem to be indispensable for this task. 'Cyberspace' as field. The sociocultural anthropological observation, analysis and interpretation of the sociocultural phenomena springing up and taking place in the interactive 'space' ('cyberspace') generated by computer-mediated communication (CMC), the Internet-infrastructure and ICTs at large. This comprises national and transnational online-groups, but also movements like e.g. 'Open Source' and the according societal, economical, and juridical issues and problems. To which degree the three sectors become mutually influential or even inseparable, depends on the specific research projects, the involved methods and the specific desiderata of understanding. Sociocultural anthropology's unique potentials for contributing to the above mentioned understanding are gradually unveiled. This potential has already have been recognized by neighbouring disciplines. One symptom of this process is the adoption, or even appropriation, of 'ethnography', a generic method of sociocultural anthropology, by sociology, media studies, and other academic endeavours. The engagement by sociocultural anthropology in the last decade was somewhat weaker, but the trend is pointing stoutly upwards.
- L'antropologia del cyberspazio è un'area di studi facente parte delle scienze etnoantropologiche, sviluppatasi a partire dagli anni 1990, che studia le interrelazioni sociali mediate da strumenti informatici e gli aspetti culturali che in tale contesto si sviluppano. L'approccio è spesso fortemente improntato alla multidisciplinarità, con una commistione dei classici strumenti concettuali della ricerca etnografica e delle teorie cibernetica, dei cultural studies, delle scienze della comunicazione, ed in generale delle discipline che affrontano il tema della Comunicazione mediata dal computer (CMC).
- A Antropologia do ciberespaço se preocupa em analisar os discursos, as técnicas, as identidades culturais, as formas específicas de relacionamentos que nascem na sociedade com o advento da Internet. muito mais do que isso ou talvez muito menos, poderia-se dizer apelando ao discurso de Ortega e Gaset "Deus pôs a materia para o homem ultrapasa-la" isto quer dizer o seguinte, as ciencias exatas que determinam o nosso modo de pensar, parecen ter chegado ao ponto de apresentarnos o mundo como um conceito repetitivo no qual nada é novo, tanto é que o nosso padrão representativo sustancial pode ser definido por dois algarismos isto é o 0 e o 1. segundo isto: tecnologias, discursos,analisis, identidades, etc. não passam de redundancias perante a única coisa original que existe no mundo a vida, que é valida per-sé e não depende nem mesmo dos conceitos sociais, que tanto amamos.
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- The anthropology of cyberspace is a minor subbranch of sociocultural anthropology that deals with cybernetic systems, the culturally informed interrelationships between human beings and technologies. These interrelationships include the attempts to fuse technological artifacts with human and other biological organisms, with human society, and with the culturally shaped environment.
- L'antropologia del cyberspazio è un'area di studi facente parte delle scienze etnoantropologiche, sviluppatasi a partire dagli anni 1990, che studia le interrelazioni sociali mediate da strumenti informatici e gli aspetti culturali che in tale contesto si sviluppano.
- A Antropologia do ciberespaço se preocupa em analisar os discursos, as técnicas, as identidades culturais, as formas específicas de relacionamentos que nascem na sociedade com o advento da Internet.
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