Contents
Introduction: Human No More
Neil L. Whitehead and Michael Wesch
1. The Mutual Co-Construction of Online and Onground in Cyborganic: Making an Ethnography of Networked Social Media Speak to Challenges of the Posthuman
Jennifer Cool
2. We Were Always Human
Zeynep Tufekci
3. Manufacturing and Encountering “Human” in the Age of Digital Reproduction
Matthew Bernius
4. The Digital Graveyard: Online Social Networking Sites as Vehicles of Remembrance
Jenny Ryan
5. Anonymous, Anonymity, and the End(s) of Identity and Groups Online: Lessons from the “First Internet-Based Superconsciousness”
Michael Wesch and the Digital Ethnography Class of Spring 2009
6. Splitting and Layering at the Interface: Mediating Indian Diasporas across Generations
Radhika Gajjala and Sue Ellen McComas
7. Avatar: A Posthuman Perspective on Virtual Worlds
Gray Graffam
8. Technology, Representation, and the “E-thropologist”: The Shape- Shifting Field among Native Amazonians
Stephanie W. Alemán
9. The Adventures of Mark and Olly: The Pleasures and Horrors of Anthropology on TV
James Hoesterey
10. Invisible Caboclos and Vagabond Ethnographers: A Look at Ethnographic Engagement in Twenty-First-Century Amazonia
Kent Wisniewski
11. Marginal Bodies, Altered States, and Subhumans: (Dis)Articulations between Physical and Virtual Realities in Centro, São Paulo
Michael Heckenberger
12. Are We There Yet? The End of Anthropology Is Beyond the Human
Neil L. Whitehead
Afterword
Anne Allison
List of Contributors
Index