June 2009
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Spending time with my dissertation chair in...
how many people get to see their dissertation advisor when they are in the field! Not many!
I arrived in Shanghai from Wuhan and spent the night at Judy and Richard Madsen’s place. Richard Madsen has been teaching a class on China and Religion for 1 year at Fudan University. They are moving in two days back to the states - so it worked out perfectly to see richard and give him an upate...
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I am now in Wuhan, China, setting up fieldwork site. I’ve been talking to Wuhan University and some local schools about my dissertation research on analyzing how migrants’ use of technology is reshaping the urban space and how internet policies affect migrants’ communication patterns. Before I head to Beijing on June 14th to work with the CNNIC (China Internet Network...
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Doggy Cellphones, Culturally Relevant...
Bio-Sense has created a collar to respond to a universal alarm bark that dogs make when they are in a threatening situation. So the way it works is that when the dog makes an alarm bark the collar sends a SMS to the owner! Welcome to the world of doggy cellphones!
Ok this news may not seem relevant to Cultural Bytes but there are two very important reasons why I am writing this post: REASON #1 -...