socialscience@web2.0

Through a series of blogs, and videos like the one by Mike Wesch which I introduced elsewhere, anthropology appears to be setting the pace in terms of social science engagement with the internet and the possibilities for collaboration and group work.

As well as the excellent Savage Minds blog, the new ‘Remixing anthropology‘ blog, linked to a 2008 AAA session, provides space to discuss a ‘new form of heteroglossic anthropology’ which examines the possibilities and challenges of new ways of ’sharing, organizing, discussing, critiquing, creating and remixing information’. In turn, this is an excellent example of how social science can use the relational and social nature of the net to generate ‘new forms’ of research, and could be productively drawn on in science studies. Hopefully we can achieve a move towards something like that with the forthcoming ‘Locating Technoscience’ reader, (draft here - may move), and stimulate some productive critique and discussion.