Scott
MacLeod's
Research,
Writings & Arts
Scott MacLeod's Research
Actual / virtual Harbin ethnography
Scott MacLeod's Research
~ I'm currently envisioning and developing World University & School,
a
global, wiki, virtual,
free, open university & school (with free,
Bachelors, Ph.D., Law & M.D. degrees planned, as well as an all instrument Music
School), and much more, potentially in all 3,000-8,000 languages and 200-ish countries. As
a wiki (editable, web pages) meta-directory, WUaS also focuses on online, open course ware at great universities (e.g. MIT, U.C. Berkeley, Yale, Stanford, 'Ivy League'
Schools, Oxford, T.U.M., Sorbonne, L.M.U.,
Juilliard, Cambridge, Cal Tech, etc.). WUaS is like Wikipedia
with MIT
Open Course Ware. Teach with your webcam, or
interactively in a virtual world like ScienceSim, Open Simulator or
Second Life, learn, or 'edit this page,' and create, at World
University
& School. You'll find WUaS's GROUP pages in the NAVIGATION section
of WUaS's SUBJECT pages - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects, and also in WUaS's SUBJECT TEMPLATE - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE,
a key to WUaS, in general. (Here are some main, current group
pages: Here are some main, current group pages: the WUaS Google + group - https://plus.google.com/u/0/115890623333932577910/posts which you can find via my name, Scott MacLeod, and WorldUniversityAndSchool@gmail.com, and the WUaS FB group - http://facebook.com/group.php?gid=48753608141. Here are my and WUaS's twitter links - http://twitter.com/scottmacleod and http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch.
Please join or add them, or create your own WUaS group in Google + !
Potentially in all languages, and with an universal translator
(building on Google Translate and Sugar Labs' Translate), World
University & School is for the emerging world (e.g. One Laptop per
Child countries), and everyone, with free degrees planned, and as wiki.
~ Please
donate to tax-exempt - 501 (c) (3) - World University & School
http://scottmacleod.com/worlduniversityandschool.htm
~ I'm also presently writing an ethnography of Harbin Hot Springs, with a virtual world aspect: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com - click on 'Harbin ethnography,' or other Harbin labels.
~ My research focuses on ethnography, the virtual and information technologies, that is on 'socioculture' vis-à-vis the web, with a particular focus on counterculture (scott-macleod.blogspot.com - blog added to daily), as well as on UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The detailed, explanatory potential of anthropology and sociology in relation to the study of the social life of information technology, and to ethnography vis-à-vis the internet, as well as to tourism studies, provides a fascinating intersection of approaches / disciplines / methodologies, and is my starting place. I'm interested, in addition, in questions of anthropology vis-à-vis science. And I'm interested in anthropological, linguistic and philosophical questions about discourse, modernities, representation and language.
~ I've taught
"Society and Information Technology" - socinfotech.pbworks.com
- on
Berkman Island in Second Life (not on Harvard University's faculty) - slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/113/47/25
(this requires at least one gigabyte of RAM), for about 7 semesters. In the autumn of 2008, I
taught "Society and Information Technology" on Penn State Isle II in
Second Life, as a Penn State University instructor. I've also taught this course on-the-ground at Chatham University and Penn State. I teach courses in
anthropology and sociology, both in real life and in 3-D virtual
worlds like Open Simulator and Second Life, which are 'placeless,' yet facilitate avatar-mediated conversation.
~ At the University of Edinburgh (D.R.), where I studied from
2003 - 2004, I conducted a virtual ethnographic study of the UNESCO
World Heritage Site, St. Kilda, the island archipelago 40 miles west of
the outer Hebrides on the west coast of Scotland, which was inhabited
for more than 2,000 years until 1930. In the 2000-2003 school years, I
studied, at the graduate level, at the University of California,
Berkeley, and the University of California, Santa Barbara (M.A.), and I
did graduate studies, again, at U.C. Berkeley in 2008-2009.
~ I also explore questions of how we can elicit the neurophysiology of loving bliss, naturally.
scottmacleod.com/daltonletter.htm
scottmacleod.com/LovingBlissPractices.htm
scottmacleod.com/LovingBlissFriends.htm
scottmacleod.com/EudaimoniaFlow.htm
scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingLovingBlissvavMusicalInstrument.htm
~ In addition, I'm interested in the concept of low-carbon, energy autonomy, and here is a page for this: scottmacleod.com/EnergyAutonomy.htm.
~ In the autumns of 1999 & 2005, I traveled on Semester at Sea, and here are some impressions from those voyages: Semester at Sea.
~ I enjoy writing poetry, and here are some haiku-ish. Click on the 'poetry' label on my blog {http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/poetry} to read or share more poetry.
~ Scott
copyright Scott
MacLeod's Arts 1998 - 2012