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  1. The Shapes of Stories, a Kurt Vonnegut Infographic bit.ly/KCx60x by @mayaeilam 4 minutes ago via web
  2. Interesting questions about big data from an ethnographic pov bit.ly/JxdEVb leading up to #dataedge @berkeleyischool 6 minutes ago via web
  3. New post on trusting machines bit.ly/K8Xge9 11:57 AM May 29th via web
  4. New post: Small data people in a big data world (p1 of 2) by @jennaburrell bit.ly/JxdEVb 1:24 PM May 28th via web
  5. Join the @ethnomatters Mendeley reading group! bit.ly/Jc7ZyW 10:24 PM May 22nd via TweetDeck
  6. Uncomfortable interactions as a research approach, interesting CHI paper - mrl.nott.ac.uk/~sdb/research/… (via @jofish) 5:05 PM May 16th via Tweetbot for iOS
  7. Digital anthropologist @BiellaColeman to present at TED Global next month. bit.ly/L0VVTI ...Awesome! 12:46 PM May 16th via Tweetbot for iOS
  8. Beki's blog on automated ethnography...ethnographer deskilling? bit.ly/Lc9tQ9 @beki70 12:42 PM May 16th via Tweetbot for iOS
  9. very interesting post on Adorno, his social theory and ambivalence towards methods, empiricism - bit.ly/JEz7tL @LSEReviewBooks 10:14 AM May 3rd via web
  10. @jennaburrell concludes with talk of over-reaching security issues where Ghanaians are blocked from many sites by virtue of their IP address 5:05 PM May 2nd via TweetDeck
  11. @jennaburrell tlks abt local innovation in the 2nd hand computer trade in Ghana; asks "are these young scrap metal workers _users_ of tech?" 5:02 PM May 2nd via TweetDeck
  12. @jennaburrell Young Ghanaians lacked nuanced understandings of the West but also encountered stereotypes about Africa they were dismayed abt 4:49 PM May 2nd via TweetDeck
  13. @jennaburrell A group of men competed to get as much free stuff from the Internet e.g. Brit Airways "Executive Club" membership cards 4:42 PM May 2nd via TweetDeck
  14. "What I found challenged the mid-90s lit on the liberatory potential of the Internet - that it might transcend offline social differences" 4:34 PM May 2nd via TweetDeck
  15. Visiting Ghana enabled @jennaburrell to escape some of the dominant discourses of the Internet in the West #Invisible_users 4:32 PM May 2nd via TweetDeck
  16. @jennaburrell challenges the traditional usr study model w/ an alt that made her go 2 Church in order 2 understand the Internet in Ghana 4:29 PM May 2nd via TweetDeck
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