Interesting research on the dynamics of online and offline social networks. Seems like our close connections undergo some pruning as time passes.
You may have more Facebook friends as the years go by, but when it comes to your close friends, you lose about half and replace them with new ones after about seven years, new [...]
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Tagged: anthropology, context, social networking, sociology
After reading a post on Savage Minds about how HBO’s The Wire might be ‘our best ethnographic text on the U.S. today’ I decided to check it out. I don’t typically watch TV let alone TV series, with the exception of a few choice shows, but I must say: The Wire is a masterpiece. [...]
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Tagged: anthropology, review, sociology, structural power, television, The Wire
I’ve spent most of today hashing out a resume for a potential job offer. From a list of achievements and relevant experience I made a while back, I constructed a one page textual representation of all the recognized cultural capital I’ve acquired over the years. Resumes have always been funny to me; [...]
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Tagged: anthropology, cultural capital, interaction, job, sociology