Everyone, here are the links for up-date-information on student protests and actions taken by the Fachschaften as well as and most important the AstA. Please check also once in a while Ethnologik for action taken by the students of the Institute of Ethnologie und Afrikanistik.

Cheers, see you all on Thursday, 13.11., 11:00 for the first great student protest at the Geschwister-Scholl-Platz/headquarter of Munich University/LMU.

kerleone, please move this later to the new category. thanxxx!

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Well, this is not really a new thing for our debate about the cortechs, but a nice example that also other companies give their fictional companies a place in the cyberspace, or let's say, they will. Take a look at the Union Aerospace Corporation. I guess it wouldn't be to hard to find out where it's from... or better, what potentially will be there in the future.

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Jim Milne, Student at the Department of Anthropology from University of South Florida, last month wrote an paper about the The Technology Adoption Cycle in Weblogs [Word Doc]. He also made some kind of self-experience for his work by having his own weblog. Well, we may call that fieldwork.

What he want's to proove is the following: "The outcome of this study is a redefinition of technological innovation. The study shows that the tools and techniques that come to be known as a technology follow the creation and adoption of the practices they contain. If technology is not just artifacts and production processes, but also the contexts of the use of that object, and the practices engaged in by people using it, then the complex of emergent meanings that describe and explain it precede the technology itself. Paradoxically, the practices come to exist, and then the tools are developed to accomplish them. This redefinition of technological innovation is meant to refute the notion that technology ?causes? social change. More correctly, social practices change, and technology shifts accordingly."

For more information and a list of literature you may take a look at his First Draft Dissertation.

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Selamat siang! Apa Kabar? Bagai belajar Bahasa Indonesia? Denang buku? Kenapa mencobalah ini?

For everybody learning Bahasa Indonesia, i found this neat little online vocabulary. Enjoy @ Kamus Jot (sorry, if there are mistakes in my bahasa indonesia, im still a beginner ;-) )

Update: a few more links for mahasiswi dan mahasiswa belajar BI:

Auswärtiges Amt: Indonesien better read this before hunting iguanas on Komodo ;-)

Bahasa Indonesia für Anfänger language guide in german.

Wörtersammlung als pdf collection of indonesian words with german translation. found on a subsite of nepalresearch.org, which provides dictionaries for sherpa to german, french and english, and nepali to german and english.

Kleiner Sprachführer "Bahasa Indonesia" another lanuage guide in german.

Bahasa Indonesia in german and english provides a lot of very usefull links. My favorite is the Language Guide for Butterflies Flirting in Indonesian.

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