Anthropological Research on the Contemporary is devoted to collaborative inquiry into contemporary forms of life, labor and language.

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Anthropologist Does Web 2.0 on YouTube

Anthropologist Michael Wesch and his Digital Ethnography lab have made an interesting video on Web 2.0. I count it among the "avant gardist" commentary out there about information technology: everything is new. But watch it. It's worth the four minutes and 31 seconds, and has gotten a good bit of attention.