Anthropology On The Internet And Social Transaction Evolves

“Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities” – Alfred L. Kroeber

Do peace, unity, and equality still exist this day in time among groups of people? Are we influenced by our environment to associate our way of seeing things and create language based on that fact? How we view the environment around us helps shape our understanding by creating language to give it meaning. Based on the linguistic data of the recently discovered tribe, we can draw conclusions about the tribe’s climate and terrain, diet, views on family and children, system of government and attitude towards war. This data shows that the lost tribe was an isolated group that lived in a valley, coexisted in unison, valued life, had high regards for

In society today, the discipline of anthropology has made a tremendous shift from the practices it employed years ago. Anthropologists of today have a very different focus from their predecessors, who would focus on relating problems of distant peoples to the Western world. In more modern times, their goal has become much more local, in focusing on human problems and issues within the societies they live.

Did you check your Facebook today? How about your E-Mail? If not, you may be missing something even now! In today’s fast-paced world of instant information, if you aren’t on the internet, you’re almost certainly uninformed. Networks and the internet make up an alarmingly large part of our life. We get our news (both personal and public) via the internet, we talk to friends, shop for things, pay our bills… but how vast is the monster that does all of this? This question, along with many others, is essential in the debate that rages on today: censoring the net. There are governments, not excluding our own, who believe in to some extent controlling who can access certain websites, and which are available to the general public. The very idea

It is for this exact reason that there has been the creation of a barrier around everyone who concentrates their conscious attention into living in the world. What is failed be to be seen, is that the digital world does not connect people, but rather connects information from around the globe and then offers it to anyone who can gain access. When one is in this constructed environment, the experiencer is completely removed from their current surrounding, leading to a false sense of success when they ignore the here and now that they are

To find information on the controversial topic, a survey was mailed in April 2000 to a randomly selected sample of participants from schools and public libraries that had used web filters in the past. The purpose of the survey was to find out how effective web filters are at doing their job(Curry). The results of the survey provided staggering evidence against the use web filters. Almost 50% (43%) of the respondents voted that they felt somewhat dissatisfied or not at all satisfied with the ability of the web filters to block potentially harmful sites. This shows that large holes inhabitat the web filters and their ability to remove all the possible negativity from the internet happens to remain very

At the age of eight, all I have put effort on learning was begin competitive. The only one interest that became my addition of mine leads to my brother, who has introduced the Toon Town, an online gaming system, where every toon at different level have the opportunity to fight against the cogs with the amount of supplies they have; thereafter, the ones that survives through the fight earns toons’ laughter points to raise their toon levels up from the range as low as twenty-five to an extend as one-hundred thirty seven. The article by Sarah Adams, Be Cool to the pizza Dude demonstrates the ideal example of interacting with community. On the other hand, MySpace Outage Leaves Millions Friendless is an article by the Onion, online networking news publisher convey the downhill side of having to deal with malfunction of their habitual social networking site. Becoming part of an online gaming community makes us all feel good since an online community meets people’s expectation for accepting who they really are truly defining that virtual community is a real community.

This distinction of authority aids in creating a hierarchy within a community. With online communities, every member is often able to contribute equally, allowing their voice to be heard. This gives the impression that every individual is an authority figure on a subject due to their ability to be equally heard. (Cellary, 2008, p. 107) For example to post a video about cats on Youtube, it is equally as easy for one person as it is the next to post a video. They simply must own a camera, have a Youtube account, be willing to record something about cats, and post it on Youtube (How to upload videos, n.d.). A third and huge difference between the two types of community is that online communities offer up the chance to be anonymous. Online one can identify with the use of almost any name or image. The name doesn’t have to be a real one, and there’s not really any way for one to prove the image is truly theirs or of themselves (Cellary, 2008, p. 107).

The second concept I want to talk about is virtual communities. Virtual communities are social groups whose interactions are mediated through information technologies, particularly the internet. Like modernism, virtual communities are very dependent on technology and the internet. Since science and technology has advanced in the past decade, people don’t need to go to different places to meet different people and can meet others over different social media platforms or even video games. Sometimes, those people met over the internet can become very close friends. For example, I play a lot of video games and I have acquainted myself virtually with many people playing those games. Some of them I even ended up meeting in real life and are still friends with today. Virtual communities have become such a social norm, that soon, people will have friends all over the internet. I think the aspect of virtual communities is good for society, because it allows people to have a greater awareness of other cultures all over the world. With more insight of how other societies and cultures operate, there is a greater chance to expand one's own social

Marshall Sahlins’ has a quote that we stand on the shoulders of giants to shit on their heads reflects the idea of paradigm shift. The shoulders personify the collective knowledge of those researchers before us, as students it is where we gain our information. It is not through our own work that we initially study our respective fields; we study the accumulation of work that those giants have codified. The shit represents new ideas, criticism, and reworking of the previously held beliefs. The constant questioning of beliefs, seeking new answers is an intrinsic feature of scientific inquiry. This holds true not only in the hard sciences but in the social sciences as well, some may say to an even greater extent, due to the nature of the

* What makes social network sites unique is not that they allow individuals to meet strangers, but rather that they enable users to articulate and make visible their social networks. This can result in connections between individuals that would not otherwise be made, but that is often not the goal, and these meetings are frequently between "latent ties" (Haythornthwaite, 2005) who share some offline connection. On many of the large SNSs, participants are not necessarily "networking" or looking to meet new people; instead, they are primarily communicating with people who are already a part of their extended social network. To emphasize this articulated social network as a critical organizing feature of these sites, we label them "social network sites."

I was born in the 80’s, so technology as, I know it, was beginning to take aim at the

Imagine a world where geographic separation does not inhibit the social or economic mobility of people. A place where cement roads are obsolete and unnecessary and the information super highway is the only road you need to know how to navigate. Information technology becomes the glue and nails that binds our (global) society together. Development becomes a matter of installing fiber-optic wiring, cellular towers and satellite launching. World Bank projects change from road building to wire laying. Now imagine a world where there is no electricity, telephones, computers, roads or other mediums of transportation other than legs and feet. Communication exists on a face-to-face level and nothing more. An individuals’

Communities in an online space have changed drastically since the rise of web 2.0. Web 2.0 refers to the current state of the World Wide Web. The previous version Web 1.0 allowed users to only read, material in a linear format online. With the introduction of web 2.0 it gave anyone the tools to read and write information online (Oreilly, 2007). It is the reason why social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Reddit exist. It allows user to communicate on an instant level. Web 2.0 increased the popularity of blogging, forums, i.e. online communities as anyone was able to participate on them (Oreilly, 2007). Web 2.0 has given people all over the world the tools to create and take part in communities based around common interests. Platforms such as reddit have taken advantage of these tools and have given people the ability to invent new forms of communities which are now a staple part of the online experience.

When it comes to globalisation, the developments in information and communication technology is undoubtedly the most important contribution that creates many changes in society, it can be regarded as a fundamental reason which accelerates the growth of globalisation. In other words, the world is certainly much more interlinked than ever. Particularly, the great advancement of the Internet, which plays a pivotal role in connecting and empowering people to access information on a wide range of topics without being limited by geography. Some people acknowledge that Internet is the main force behind a huge cultural diversity, however, I believe it to be a mirage, similar to the effects of crowd behaviour (individuals in a group act similarly, by influencing each other), the majority of the people could end up visiting the same websites, reading the same news, listening to the same music, and so on. It can be argued that everyone maintaining the same behavior patterns might only lead to homogenization. In this paper, the essay will explore how Internet is homogenizing the culture, creating a global mass culture. Also, this essay will reveal examples in the usage of the internet and demonstrate how community manages to absorb multicultures unconsciously through different methods.