Some links to ressources of anthropology and internet, found at University of Regina:

• The Internet and Usenet Global Computer Networks: An investigation of their culture and its effects on new users. A Masters thesis by Tim North. (c) 1994. The thesis is an anthropological look at the culture of the Internet and Usenet.
• Anthropology Nine Hundred Years After the Invention of Hypertext. David Zeitlyn.
• The Future of the Past: Archaeology and Anthropology on the World Wide Web. John W. Hoopes.
• Applied Anthropology on the Internet

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By accident I just found a really weird paper from 1997. It's only purpose is to educate anthropologists in the use of animated images (Anim-GIFs) for presentation of research. It was published in CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY METHODS.

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An article of June 20 in the NY Sun about a congress hearing on anti-american biases in US universities. quotes: " A House subcommittee yesterday held a public hearing to investigate whether anti-American views pervade federally funded international-studies programs on college campuses — including Columbia and New York University — and to get ideas for what, if anything, should be done about it.

"The chief critic of the programs at the hearing, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanley Kurtz, singled out two New York institutions that he said fostered anti-American sentiment: Columbia University, the employer of Professor Edward Said, whom Mr.Kurtz said was the founding father of anti-Americanism in international studies programs, and the Hagop Kevorkian Center of the New York University,for its Web site, which features essays critical of American foreign policy after September 11, 2001.

"making ideological diversity a component of federal funding on par with gender diversity.

read the article

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