Cyber anthropology or anthropology in cyberspace.

Aunshul Rege - What’s Love Got to Do with It? Exploring Online Dating Scams and Identity Fraud

Cyberspace has become an alternative medium for experiencing new and creative romantic endeavors with few spatio-temporal limits. E-love networks have proliferated since the mid-1990s and are expected to generate $1.9 billion by 2012. However, this successful global industry is a frequent venue of cyber crime, which poses serious problems for matchmaking services and daters worldwide. This pape...

An Approach to the Concept of a Virtual Border: Identities and Communication Spaces

Abstract: This article presents an approach to the concept of border in cyberspace, analyzed as a place of communication and identity. Firstly, it explores the various dimensions of the border and specifies the role of geographical boundaries. The article later highlights the different aspects that define virtual borders, such as changes in the concept of borders provoked by the arrival of the ...

Cybercrime and cyber-security issues associated with China: some economic and institutional considerations

China is linked to cybercrimes of diverse types, scales, motivations and objectives. The Chinese cyberspace thus provides an interesting setting for the study of cybercrimes. In this paper, we first develop typology, classification and characterization of cybercrimes associated with China, which would help us understand modus operandi, structures, profiles and personal characteristics of cyberc...

Anthropology of Rural Tourism (Case of Study: Masoule Village)

From Cyber to Digital Anthropology to an Anthropology of the Contemporary?

This paper is first taking a brief look back on the “anthropology of cyberculture”, formulated as anthropological research area, concept and issue by Arturo Escobar in 1994. Inspired by science and technology studies, he painted a very vivid picture how anthropology and ethnography could contribute to the understanding of new bio and communication technologies as society's transforming driving ...