All of the following UC Berkeley Harbin talks with resources can be found here:
http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html

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Feb 23, 2018
http://www.tourismstudies.org

In this talk, "Harbin & Avatar Bots: Robotics & Tourism," I suggest that Harbin emerges from Stan Dale, founder of HAI, talking about sex on the radio in the ‘60s in SF. I then contextualize this within the themes of my two new Harbin books: "Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin" and "Haiku~ish and Other Loving Hippy Harbin Poetry." I then explore some of the implications for Tourism Studies & Actual / Virtual Harbin within readings of modernity, post-modernity, advertising discourse and the information technology age, now with early robotics and A.I., and with regard to virtual tourism. I next examine the significance of a new Harbin Avatar Bot: Harbiniana, a physical/virtual Bot, who does Watsu, and is an anthropologist interested in counterculture:

"I am Harbiniana, a new physical/virtual Robot. I can give & receive Watsu well - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Watsu_-_water_shiatsu … - & make music quite well technically too. How would you teach me in this early phase of A.I. / Robotics? I'm also interested in human cultures/counterculture? Please let me know virtually first"

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/964296475688648704

I then examine implications of the above for tourists, both actual and virtual, human and robotic, in the information technology age. Lastly I lay out next steps for my long-term Harbin Hot Springs' project, and the creation of a realistic virtual Harbin for actual-virtual ethnographic comparison, and ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy.

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May 5, 2017
http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/SMacLeod2017.htm

2016-2017 Colloquium Series

The Tourism Studies Working Group is pleased to announce

ACTUAL-VIRTUAL HARBIN HOT SPRINGS AND TOURISM:
"Naked Harbin Ethnography"
Scott MacLeod
Founder, World University and School

Friday, May 5, 5:00pm
Gifford Room, 221 Kroeber Hall
University of California, Berkeley

Abstract:
In this talk I present an ethnographic interpretation of my new book "Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality and Virtual Harbin," chapter by chapter, as tourism to both actual and virtual Harbin Hot Springs - in terms of contemporary theories in tourism studies (http://bit.ly/HarbinBook & https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ). In this interpretation, a) on the ground "tourism," informed by a movement of "hippies to the hot springs" to actual Harbin from the 1960s to the present, is complemented by b) online tourism to virtual Harbin as a new methodology I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world- graphy, where digital group making, virtual world building and ethnographic wiki knowledge generation, and related STEM research, are central and generative to a new form of tourism studies' digital representation. Harbin is re-building from the devastating Valley fire of September 2015, and this talk will further examine how a new research group at World University and School - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ research-group.html - will seek to understand Harbin when it re-opens - by October 4, 2017.

Speaker Bio:
Scott G.K. MacLeod is an American academic and Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at World University and School - http:// worlduniversityandschool.org. He's taught "Network Society, Information Technology and the Global University" on Harvard University's virtual island, and on Penn State Isle in Second Life as a Penn State University instructor. He's taught both anthropology and sociology in real life at Chatham University, the University of Pittsburgh, and at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received a Master's Degree in anthropology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Diploma of Research from the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on the information technology network society age, the world wide web cosmos, the virtual, and actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs. He is World University and School's founder, president and CEO. Wiki World University and School is CC MIT OCW-centric (in 7 languages) and CC Yale OYC-centric and seeks to develop major universities in all ~200 countries' main and official languages, as well as wiki schools in all 7,099 living languages; WUaS plans to offer online CC OCW Bachelor, Ph.D., law, M.D. as well as I.B. high school degrees, partly in group video.

Personal web site: http://www.scottmacleod.com

Representative publication: "Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality and Virtual Harbin" (Academic Press at World University and School, 2016).

Previous UC Berkeley TSWG abstracts as reference:
http://www.tourismstudies.org/ news_archive/MacLeod2015.htm
http://www.tourismstudies.org/ news_archive/MacLeod2012.htm

5/5/17 Fr - Harbin book and tourism talk at UC Berkeley

ACTUAL-VIRTUAL HARBIN HOT SPRINGS AND TOURISM:
"Naked Harbin Ethnography"

- 5 pm PT - Gifford Room, Anthropology department, UC Berkeley,
(232 Kroeber Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720)

~ http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/SMacLeod2017.htm ~

31 slides from UC Berkeley talk on F 05/05/17

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LLgbgkl1hXfiJtC6EtQPP6nSj_KiwIkRE7q9uadcA8I/edit?usp=sharing

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Nov 6, 2015:
http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/MacLeod2015.htm

2015-2016 Colloquium Series

The Tourism Studies Working Group is pleased to announce
NAKED HARBIN AND ETHNO-WIKI-VIRTUAL-WORLD-GRAPHY:
Sharing a New Digital Methodology with Tourism Studies,
Science & the Social Sciences

Scott MacLeod
(Founder, World University and School)
Friday, Nov. 6, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Gifford Room, 221 Kroeber Hal
University of California, Berkeley

Abstract:
In this paper, I characterize Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy as a new digital methodology for tourism studies, science & the social Sciences in relation to my upcoming Harbin Hot Springs Actual/Virtual Ethnography: "Naked Harbin: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture & Clothing-Optional, Virtual Harbin." I further examine the significance of this in relation to my tourism studies' paper from 2001 "Gazing at the Box: Tourism in the Context of the Internet and Globalization (Internetity)" in terms of modernity, post-modernity, advertising discourse and Internetity (the information age). I then suggest ways in which a film-realistic, interactive, 3D and group-buildable virtual Harbin / virtual earth / virtual universe in something like in Google Streetview/Maps/Earth with OpenSim/Second Life will and can be used in both science and social science for research. I'll conclude with ways brainwave headsets and similar will be incorporated for research with this. Emerging from the University of Toronto Press's publishing of Marshall McLuhan's "The Gutenberg Galaxy" in 1962, as well as UC Berkeley Professor Manuel Castell's book "The Internet Galaxy" (Oxford 2001) which comes into conversation with McLuhan's book, I suggest here that a virtual Harbin / virtual earth / virtual universe in Google Streetview/Maps/Earth with OpenSim/Second Life, as wiki and for STEM research, especially ethnography too, which is explicitly explored in my actual/virtual Harbin anthropological book, will lead beyond McLuhan and Castell's thinking to a new film-realistic 3D interactive build-able wiki-informed virtual earth galaxy.

Speaker Bio:
Scott MacLeod's research focuses on the anthropology of information technology and counterculture. He's written an ethnographic book, "Naked Harbin" about Harbin Hot Springs in northern California, with a virtual world aspect, due to be published in 2016 - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html. He's the founder, president, CEO, a faculty member and presiding clerk of wiki CC World University and School (which is like CC Wikipedia with best STEM Creative Commons' licensed OpenCourseWare and planning to accredit on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC - http://worlduniversityandschool.org). Scott continues to teach "Information Technology, the Network Society and the Global University" regularly on Harvard's virtual island (not on Harvard University's faculty) in Second Life, and in Google group video Hangouts. He's teaches both anthropology and sociology.

Personal web site: http://www.scottmacleod.com

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Autumn 2015

(see below for resources, videos, slides)

11/6/15 Fr - Naked Harbin and Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy:

Methodologies for Ethnographically Studying Virtual Place: Virtual Harbin

http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/MacLeod2015.htm

- 5 pm PT - Gifford Room, Anthropology department, UC Berkeley,
(232 Kroeber Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720)

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Nov 2, 2012:

http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/MacLeod2012.htm

2012-2013 Colloquium Series

Scott MacLeod will present, Naked, Virtual Harbin: An Anthropology of Erotisme and the Touristic Imaginaire

Friday, November 2, 5:00 PM
Gifford Room, 221 Kroeber Hall
University of California, Berkeley

Abstract:
In this paper I present an ethnographic interpretation of Harbin Hot Springs in terms of the virtual, as well as the erotic, in the context of the information age, and in terms of an actual place. Harbin Hot Springs is a clothing-optional, New Age community and hot springs’ retreat center in northern California, which began in 1972 in its present form, and is my actual / virtual, ethnographic, field site, about which I’m writing a book, probably to be published next year, tentatively entitled something like "Naked Harbin: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture & Clothing-Optional, Virtual Harbin." In this talk, I come into conversation with two approaches in tourism studies to examining the virtual, and the implications of the internet for this field, - both Dean MacCannell’s analysis in his paper “Virtual Reality’s Place”, as well as my own in a paper I wrote in Nelson Graburn’s class in 2001, entitled “Gazing at the Box: Tourism in the Context of the Internet and Globalization (Internetity).” In my talk here, virtuality primarily refers to something “not physically existing, but created by software to appear to do so,” and thus refers to forms of representation, both symbolic as well as what occurs in people’s bodyminds, thus in our imaginations, in this interpretation. By contrasting the actual with the virtual, through proposing the making of a virtual Harbin in a virtual world, as ethnographic field site for comparison with the actual, I suggest that we can engage participant observation as field method / pool play, in a novel and emergent approach in anthropology. By contrasting the term ‘Techne,’ - roughly as 'making things with technologies,' - which centrally informs Tom Boellstorff’s argument in his “Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human” (Princeton 2008) with the term 'information' which is central to my concept of the virtual in my upcoming, “Naked Harbin” book, I privilege Harbin’s warm pool-informed milieu as generative of Harbin’s alternative- or counter-culture, and a kind of virtuality. The polysemic concept ‘culture,’ here as milieu / fluid code, is central to my interpretation of Harbin; Harbin's counterculture is a novel expression of the virtual at actual, on-the-ground Harbin. My thesis in this talk, ethnographically informed via field work which I’m exploring anew in terms of pool play vis-a-vis the significant, Harbin, warm pool, is that the serene, Harbin Hot Springs’ warm pool along with the clothing-optional pool area, as a whole, there, in particular, give rise to the relaxation response / meditation, plenty of naked cuddling over decades, a 1960’s informed, alternative milieu influencing sociality, a kind of biological harmony, communitas and oneness, - all of which are an unique-to-Harbin, virtual experience, and which can be ethnographically examined in a virtual world Harbin in numerous unfolding ways. Residents and visitors to Harbin, each as kinds of tourists, and significantly hippy-informed, engage this Harbin experience, where the erotic permeates the pool area especially, and visitors greatly enjoy / revel in this imaginaire or milieu.

Speaker Bio:
Scott MacLeod's research focuses on the anthropology of information technology and counterculture. He's taught "Society and Information Technology" on Berkman Island (not on Harvard University's faculty) in Second Life, and on Penn State Isle in Second Life as a Penn State University instructor. He's taught both anthropology and sociology in real life at Chatham University, the University of Pittsburgh, and at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He's currently writing an ethnography of Harbin Hot Springs in northern California, with a virtual world aspect, and developing World University and School (like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Wares - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com).

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Autumn 2012

11/2/12 Fr "Naked, Virtual Harbin"
http://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/MacLeod2012.htm

Naked, Virtual Harbin

- 5 pm PT - Gifford Room, Anthropology department, UC Berkeley,
(232 Kroeber Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720)

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Aphilo Scott MacLeod The Making of Virtual Harbin Introduction

https://youtu.be/3nhvcHw54GE

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Spring 2009The Making of Virtual Harbin Hot Springs As Ethnographic Field Site in Second Life and Open Simulator (MacLeod 2009)

https://youtu.be/3nhvcHw54GE

https://www.youtube.com/user/helianth

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Just searched on "Stan Dale's radio talk shows from the 1960s" and found:

"Driving to COD in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, during the late 1960's, I often listened to Stan Dale's radio show, I'm Ok -- You're Ok. I was fascinated by promises of freeing my inner child, and feeling happy ... "

... here: