October 2009
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Erving Goffman, Cellphones, Social Cohesion
Andy Orum most recent post, What sociologist Erving Goffman could tell us about social networking and Internet identity on O’Reilly Radar, has brought back graduate course work memories of reading the works of our dear 73rd President of the American Sociological Association.
Goffman is most famous for his work on presentation of one’s identity in American culture. He studied...
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Livescribe Pulse SmartPen: An Ethnographer's dream...
Livescribe just announced the next iteration of their beautiful Pulse Pen, a new 4gig model in titanium and black. The Livescribe pen is a digital pen that writes on digital paper, records your writing, records audio, and does many other cool stuff. Essentially you dont’ ever have to scan in what you write anymore! With their special paper and pen, you can have everything digitally...