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Crime, Comedy, Creativity & Commercialism – Run and Tell That!

September 3, 2011

Even if you have heard this story, chances are you haven’t seen many of the related videos. I have included six of the best musical performances below. Antoine Dodson is known to millions, but there are still many that aren’t aware of this unusual YouTube star and the series of events that he inspired. (Be [...]

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Ferrets, cigarettes, and lasting friendships

March 8, 2009

If it wasn’t for ferrets and cigarettes, who knows if I would have even met one of my best friends, Cheryl Finfrock. In the late 80′s we were introduced to each other by mutual friends. They knew that we were both looking for a roommate and finding it increasingly challenging because of our individual vices. [...]

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Digital Ethnography, What The – ?

January 7, 2009

If you are a cultural anthropologist you’re probably quite familiar with the term ethnography, it’s a genre of writing that uses fieldwork to provide a descriptive study of human societies. Michael Wesch is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. He’s really a media ecologist, and perhaps the first cultural anthropologist to [...]

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