Scott MacLeod's Anthropology of Information Technology & Counterculture: Oriental darter or Indian darter (Anhinga melanogaster): Re: [Medianthro] Digital Ethnography short course * "The University of Oxford, is offering a summer short course, Digital Ethnography, which will run between 16th July and 5th September" * * an online virtual Harbin Hot Spring for ethnographic study and research, and with an anthropological research group, and for anthropological field site generation, and to study - Virtual Harbin generation (realistic) Realistic virtual earth / cosmos generation, group build-able at atomic/molecular, neuronal/cellular, and streetview/behavioral levels Avatar robotics' design and printing of 3D place / avatar bots Brain chemistry - a) loving bliss and b) consciousness as awareness - research and modeling (re e.g. modeling mouse and fly brains with AI) Wiki ethnography generation Field work to actual Harbin Hot Springs Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy (as a new social science theory and method, as well as STEM-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy) https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy http://www.scottmacleod.com/research-group.html ~

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Oriental darter or Indian darter (Anhinga melanogaster): Re: [Medianthro] Digital Ethnography short course * "The University of Oxford, is offering a summer short course, Digital Ethnography, which will run between 16th July and 5th September" * * an online virtual Harbin Hot Spring for ethnographic study and research, and with an anthropological research group, and for anthropological field site generation, and to study - Virtual Harbin generation (realistic) Realistic virtual earth / cosmos generation, group build-able at atomic/molecular, neuronal/cellular, and streetview/behavioral levels Avatar robotics' design and printing of 3D place / avatar bots Brain chemistry - a) loving bliss and b) consciousness as awareness - research and modeling (re e.g. modeling mouse and fly brains with AI) Wiki ethnography generation Field work to actual Harbin Hot Springs Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy (as a new social science theory and method, as well as STEM-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy) https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy http://www.scottmacleod.com/research-group.html ~

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Scott MacLeod

1:18 PM (21 minutes ago)

to William, Vicki, me, president@worlduniversityandschool.org, Dean, medianthro-easaonline.org@lists.easaonline.org

Dear William / Bill Kelly (Vicki Nash whom I met at Harvard Law Emeritus Professor Charlie Nesson's home in Cambridge MA in around 2006 at a brunch at a celebration for the Berkman Center of Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, Dean MacCannell whom I know from the UC Berkeley Tourism Studies' Working Group in the Anthropology department there and see PPPS, MediaAnthro), All,

Thanks for this information about an Oxford "Digital Ethnography" course beginning soon - https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/digital-ethnography. And greetings from near Harbin Hot Springs' Heart Consciousness Church, my physical-digital ethnographic field site, and for my next Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book project, to be developed for research in something like Google Street View with time slider, and also for publishing (both to 1) Paper, and 2) to new digital formats such as the the back of digital glasses, and in #WUaSMultimediaRooms even, thus potentially reinventing the book even). As founder and president of MIT OCW-centric wiki #GrowWithGoogleWUaS World University and School for free-to-students' online WUaS degrees from home in each of all ~200 countries and in their main languages, WUaS seeks to further develop a #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForEverything (including #ForSTEM #ForEthnography - #ForMuseums & #ForLibraries, all, ever in all languages ever - and #ForArchaeology #ForPaleontology, and a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory with #GTimeSlider ... and see #Twitter and #LinkedIN for these #hashtags) as classrooms and field sites too, and see Peter Norvig's INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 - mentioning a virtual Harbin for the first time ever (other than by me and MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School of which again I'm the founder and head), and also to study bliss in virtual Harbin (and search on these words). Bill, since you went to the University of California, Davis, have you ever visited Harbin Hot Springs' Heart Consciousness Church?

Here attached is the draft first chapter of my "Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin" (2016 Academic Press at World University and School) which I sent to the University of Toronto Press in 2016.

MacLeod Naked Harbin Chapter 1 U Toronto Press.pdf

My "Naked Harbin Ethnography" comes in conversation with Tom Boellstorff's "Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human" (2008 - https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691168340/coming-of-age-in-second-life). Might you be planning to read some of this in the upcoming Oxford "Digital Ethnography" course?

It's long been a goal of mine to develop an online virtual Harbin Hot Spring for ethnographic study and research, and with an anthropological research group, and for anthropological field site generation, and to study -

Virtual Harbin generation (realistic)
Realistic virtual earth / cosmos generation, group build-able at atomic/molecular, neuronal/cellular, and streetview/behavioral levels
Avatar robotics' design and printing of 3D place / avatar bots
Brain chemistry - a) loving bliss and b) consciousness as awareness - research and modeling (re e.g. modeling mouse and fly brains with AI)
Wiki ethnography generation
Field work to actual Harbin Hot Springs

Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy (as a new social science theory and method, as well as STEM-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy)

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy

http://www.scottmacleod.com/research-group.html

In what ways might we explore further some of this, if at all, in your upcoming Oxford "Digital Ethnography" course beginning soon? Do you think your Oxford "Digital Ethnography" students might be interested in visiting virtual (or actual) Harbin Hot Springs for anthropological and ethnographic study and research?

All best regards,

Scott

Scott GK MacLeod

'virtual Harbin' label -

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/virtual%20Harbin (in daily blog)

My notes -

1
William H. Kelly
Stipendiary Lecturer, St. Hugh's College
Research Affiliate, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography (SAME)
University of Oxford
Email: william.kelly@anthro.ox.ac.uk

1 b
School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography
https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-william-kelly

1 c
William Kelly is an Anthropologist of Japan and Research Affiliate at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography (SAME), University of Oxford.

"...co-founder and co-convenor of the Oxford Digital Ethnography Group (OxDEG), creator and convenor of the Digital Methods module for research students in Anthropology and occasional convenor of the Digital Ethnography option at the Oxford Internet Institute"

https://www.socsci.ox.ac.uk/article/dr-william-kelly

1 d
https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-kelly-7952457/?originalSubdomain=uk

1 e

William H. Kelly
Stipendiary Lecturer, St. Hugh's College
Research Affiliate, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography (SAME)
University of Oxford
Email: william.kelly@anthro.ox.ac.uk

PPS

You can visit the Harbin Gatehouse here in Google Street View with time slider, and 'walk' down the road to Middletown, but not yet up into Harbin Hot Springs and the pool area, for example -

~ https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~

which is where I'm seeking for a #RealisticVirtualHarbin to emerge (e.g. in a kind of wiki Google Street View with a time slider).

per

Scott GK MacLeod's
Naked Harbin Ethnography:
Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin (2016, Academic Press at World University and School)
by Scott MacLeod
sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Foreword by Nelson H.H. Graburn
UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus of Sociocultural Anthropology

And you'll find some excerpts from "Naked Harbin Ethnography" here in my daily blog (since 2008!) especially around 2016 forward when it was published - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Harbin%20ethnography

I looked up 'ministers' in my

Naked_Harbin_Ethnography_Original_SGKMacLeod_2016_WUaSPress.pdf

How best to create a realistic virtual Harbin Heart Consciousness Church (with ministers) and to study bliss in virtual Harbin? And please see Peter Norvig's INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 - mentioning a virtual Harbin for the first time ever (other than by me and MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School of which I'm the founder and head).

PPPS

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

https://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/SMacLeod2017.htm

2020-2021 Colloquium Series
The Tourism Studies Working Group is pleased to present

Creating a Realistic Virtual Earth for Tourism and Tourism Studies with Actual-Virtual Harbin Hot Springs: A Case Study

https://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/MacLeod2020.htm

PPPPS

#RealisticVirtualHarbin for this?

I have in mind at WUaS developing a #RealisticVirtualHarbin Hot Springs vis-a-vis a concurrent #RealisticVirtualEarth ... and such that scientists and researchers could develop brainwave headset technologies such that we could visit virtual Harbin eg in the back of our digital glasses or in multimedia rooms from our bathtubs (for the warm water 'relaxation response' meditation from home) and to study further such brain freedoms, I posit, academically and scientifically ... and regarding possibly #RockAndRollThusness brainwave freedoms too ...

Has #HarbinHotSprings @HarbinBook achieved a kind of '#RockAndRollThusness' post #2016ValleyFire that razed it; How to create this @ #RealisticVirtualHarbin in 1 develop #RealisticVirtualEarth & see #PeterNorvig's INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 for "#StudyOfBliss"?

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1914392614381740101

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/1914393340868710560

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/1914393219322011882

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/1914392269765140577

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/1914392790559285259

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/1914394193629470811

Retweeting -
1st lines of #NakedHarbinEthnography: "After you check in at the gate at #HarbinHotSprings, a #Harbinresident who has worked there for years often says "#GoPlay"
http://scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ... How to explore in #RealisticVirtualHarbin
@HarbinBook
for #EthnoWikiVirtualWorldGraphy ?

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/1729933002858242211

On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 11:18 AM William Kelly via Medianthro <medianthro-easaonline.org@lists.easaonline.org> wrote:

Dear All,

I have been asked to circulate information about the following, which may be of interest to doctoral and/or advanced research students:

The Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford, is offering a summer short course, Digital Ethnography, which will run between 16th July and 5th September. The main aims of the course, which is targeted to doctoral and/or advanced research students in the social sciences, is to equip students with skills in digital research methods for purposes of advancing their own research objectives and to familiarise them with key research themes and issues, as well as related academic literature. Students also conceive, develop and undertake (with guidance) a small-scale, independent, hands-on digital research project over the duration of the course, the results of which are discussed in the final session.

The course is offered free to students enrolled in an Oxford award-bearing DPhil programme when the course starts and at a reduced fee for students enrolled in an award-bearing postgraduate programme at Oxford (or any other higher educational institution) when the course begins. For further details and/or to enrol, please visit the course website at the above link.

All best regards,

Bill Kelly

William H. Kelly
Stipendiary Lecturer, St. Hugh's College
Research Affiliate, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography (SAME)
University of Oxford
Email: william.kelly@anthro.ox.ac.uk

Co-founder & co-convenor, Oxford Digital Ethnography Group (OxDEG)
TDEP Award Holder (2020-21), Development of Digital Methods training, Social Sciences Division
Teaching Excellence Award 2022, Social Sciences Division

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