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