Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Porcupine caribou: Digital Turn re Anthropology - MediaAnthro, How is the related Robotics' Turn in Anthropology taking form re the Digital Turn in Anthropology, I wonder?, Seeking to grow World Univ & Sch into a Stanford & a MIT in each of all ~200 countries' main/official languages - w combined numbers of faculty & staff -& wiki schools in all 7097 living langs growing from Wikipedia's staffing growth in ~300 languages - 2.2 million Universitians?


Dear MediaAnthro, Francisco, Philipp, Sahana, Nina, Mark and All,

Thanks for this far-reaching focus on the Digital Turn re Anthropology - and archiving. In support of this conversation, I'd like to contribute the following seeds of resources, (and re Francisco's "a brief comment on Philipp question about the call for new concepts or methods to study “the digital”." beginning this particular thread ... ).

A)
Library Resources wiki subject page planned in each of all 7097 living languages (in Ethnologue) & 8481 languages (in Glottolog) at World Univ & Sch (WUaS) -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Library_Resources - which pages can grow potentially infinitely.

Since WUaS is wiki we can all add online library resources from and in these languages (planned again in all 7097 living languages https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages). World Univ & Sch donated ourselves/WUaS to Wikidata/Wikibase in 2015 for co-development, and as a consequence got this new WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki above in 2017, where Wikidata/Wikibase (Wikipedia) is in ~300 languages. WUaS's "front end" isn't yet interoperable with our WUaS Wikidata / Wikibase "back end" structured knowledge database.

B)
World Univ & Sch is seeking to facilitate a realistic virtual earth for Libraries - conceptually think Google Street View with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth / Translate / TensorFlow + -  where we can all add libraries to this. For example, take a video of a physical archive - say an aisle of books in a library - convert this digitally from video to 3D interactivity (program not written yet), and add links to any given book or newspaper to the actual readable printed content. You can see some pictures of how this might work here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/10/cetonia-aurata-how-many-further-ways-we.html - and here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/12/san-gabriel-wilderness-libraries-in-all.html and https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/11/lions-in-trees-all-libraries-all.html and https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/11/lilies-in-garlands-can-world-university.html (and a realistic virtual earth for museums as well).

This new social science method which I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - allows for the politics of inclusion+++, since, like in Wikipedia (with its own developing history of the politics of inclusion), we all in ~300 languages can add resources, for example to Street View, or to wiki World Univ & Sch.

And re Nina's "To me, one of the most significant aspects of the digital in terms of ethnography is the way the digital can serve to open up places to other places. ..."

Nina and all, I'm seeking in this realistic virtual earth to develop actual-virtual, physical-digital direct correspondence as well - e.g. place-wise i.e. actual-virtual place or field site, - so opening physical places to and from virtual ones too - and also e.g. robotics-wise i.e. physical-digital robotics ... and all in ONE realistic virtual earth. This would thus inform robotics potentially too re the Digital Turn in Anthropology. For example, and as a starting place, Lego robots made from Lego WeDo2 and Lego Mindstorms EV3 robotics kits for learning also could be made virtually in Brick Street View and thus in Google Street View (in development). I just gave a talk about this - "HARBIN AND AVATAR BOTS: Robotics and Tourism" -  in the UC Berkeley Anthropology department on Fr. Oct 26, 2018 which you'll find here in video and with slides+ - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/10/lewis-river-washington-state-uc.html - if interested.

(I also shared some related thoughts on the Digital Turn in this MediaAnthro discussion on October 17th, which I'm posting below again). How is the related Robotics' Turn in Anthropology taking form re the Digital Turn in Anthropology, I wonder? Thank you for this very timely and topical MediaAnthro conversation.

Cheers, Scott

World Univ & Sch seeks to facilitate a #RealisticVirtualEarthForLibraries - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Library_Resources (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/libraries) in ALL 7097 living languages & a #RealisticVirtualEarthForMuseums - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Museums Think Google StreetView w TIME SLIDER+ #RealisticVirtualEarth~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1060221834791010304

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Thanks, Anna, and MediaAnthro,

I'm curious about the significance of Packer and Jordan's 5 characteristics in their book "Multimedia" (2000) - integration, interactivity, hypermedia, immersion, new forms of narrativity (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/05/nudibranch-to-conceptualize-virtual.html) - as well as presence, for said "Digital Turn." In what ways could coming into conversation with these lead to further developments theoretically?

I'm also curious about the role that an emerging realistic virtual earth might play here - conceptually like Google Street View with TIME SLIDER - and at the cellular and atomic levels too - / Maps / Earth / TensorFlow / all-languages and with realistic human and SPECIES' avatar bots.

For an actual-virtual anthropological example of a beginning realistic virtual earth, visit the Harbin Hot springs' gate (my physical-digital ethnographic field site) in Google Street View here ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ where you can "walk" down the road "4 miles" to Middletown and "amble" around the streets there, if inclined. And add some photos or videos or computer modeling or text if you have them - a new anthropological method I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy.

Best regards,
Scott
- World Univ & Sch's Nation States' wiki page - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (each to become a major online wiki CC-4 MIT OCW-centric university in each of all ~200 countries' official languages for free-to-students' online degrees, and wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all 7097 living languages)
- http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress

P.S. Here are some related wiki subjects at MIT OCW-centric WUaS (but which are not yet in other languages) -
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Anthropology
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Media_Studies
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Visual_Anthropology
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Virtual_Worlds
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics


- All accessible from here https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects -





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World Univ & Sch seeks to facilitate a #RealisticVirtualEarthForLibraries - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Library_Resources (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/libraries) in ALL 7097 living languages & a #RealisticVirtualEarthForMuseums - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Museums Think Google StreetView w TIME SLIDER+ #RealisticVirtualEarth~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1060221834791010304


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Seeking to grow World Univ & Sch into a Stanford & a MIT in each of all ~200 countries' main/official languages - w combined numbers of faculty & staff -& wiki schools in all 7097 living langs growing from Wikipedia's staffing growth in ~300 languages - 2.2 million Universitians?

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1060205183450267650


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Seeking to grow WUaS Press, an educational services' Co, in each of all ~200 countries' official langs - w combined numbers of staff as Ikea/Walmart - & re wiki schools in all 8481 living langs growing from Wikipedia's staffing growth in ~300 languages - 2.2 mill Universitians?

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1060207129905123328





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