Podcasts by Strange Communities
This is a class weblog on Strange Communities
Further podcasts by Phil Frana UCA Honors College
Podcast on the topic Tagebücher
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Are We Strange? from 2008-12-11T13:01:05
In this final podcast of the Strange Communities class John Zagurski, Robbie Toombs, and Katie Matthew talk about what characteristics the three communities we studied (composed of gang members, mo...
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Strange Projects from 2008-12-08T20:07:37
In this podcast Marybeth Allinson, Geoffrey Wright, and Carlos Merino recap the strange communities class projects unveiled this week. The groups adopted creative, historical, or ethnographic proje...
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Wikis, Worlds, and Trust from 2008-12-05T12:57:32
In this episode Patricia O'Neal, Caitlin Porter, and Sarah Fodge talk about the history of information storage and retrieval, discuss two examples of wiki communities (Wikipedia: Arkansas Project; ...
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World of Warcraft Communities and Virtual Religion from 2008-11-20T12:19:12
In this episode Austin Keaster, Mark Senia, and Michael J. Hinds interview a monk from the Order of the Lamp. Brother (Tele)Porter talks about the connections that can be made between his duties at...
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Second Life and Facebook as RPGs from 2008-11-13T14:47:03
In this episode of the Strange Communities podcast Saroj Adhikari, Desiree Paulhamus, and Genevieve Kimbrough talk about the various motives of Second Life and Facebook users. Do both groups have ...
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Wikinomics from 2008-10-28T16:17:25
Mitchell Adams, Matthew Hill, and Caroline Borden discuss wiki community, distributed collaboration, and folksonomy. Why would people want to share? Do social media contributors do it because it is...
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Testing the Righteous and the Wicked from 2008-10-21T13:37:06
In this episode Tim Peterson, Brandon King, and David Wilkins discuss the relative merits of strict churches, and the reasons why they are gaining popularity in both America and Japan. What should ...
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Modern Monasticism? from 2008-10-09T12:58:20
In this fifth episode of the Strange Communities podcast Hayley Sebourn, Katelyn Johnson, and Brannen Payne discuss the life of sixteenth-century mystic Saint Teresa of Avila. Saint Teresa establis...
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Monasticism: A Separate Holiness or Selfish Ambition? from 2008-10-02T11:40:04
This week Natalie Bergstrom, Tyler Floyd, and Stephanie Sun talk about the rise of monasticism in the ancient world and the importance of ascetic practice to individuals and in the wider community....
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Can you dig it? from 2008-09-25T11:22:05
Bekah Baugh, Rebecca Harvey, and F. John Rickert talk about the counterculture Digger community in the Haight-Ashbury District of San Francisco. The Diggers developed a powerful critique of society...
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Gang Leader for a Day from 2008-09-18T13:08:18
Cody Wilson and Lauren Knetzer discuss Sudhir Venkatesh's Gang Leader for a Day. Is Venkatesh propagating a falsely romantic view of gang life? Are gang members potential dons in a vast hierarchy o...
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Strange Communities course introduction from 2008-09-02T06:50:13
We tend to think of community as the fuzzy, friendly altruism of neighbors – or perhaps as the dead weight of traditions and folkways. But all around us people engage in weird roleplay that determi...
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