Tag Archive: Technology
March 30th, 2010 by Rachel | Tags: Anthropology, Corporation, Environment, Healthcare, Material Culture, Technology | 1 Comment »
I have a love-hate relationship with corporations. Some of them out there, such as Wal-Mart, ExxonMobile, and United Healthcare are just evil and have really done some great harm to their workers and customers and to the world; however, there are corporations that have done phenomenal things for the world. Here are a few that […]
March 25th, 2010 by Rachel | Tags: Anthropology, Facebook, Internet, Technology | No Comments »
Yesterday morning, when I woke up, I logged onto Facebook. As I was reading the news feed filled with updates from my friends, acquaintances, and family members, I came across one status update by a friend of mine that struck me the most: You have to love an era where you can wake up needing […]
March 15th, 2010 by Rachel | Tags: Anthropology, Healthcare, Material Culture, News Media, Technology | 1 Comment »
CNN posted an article the other day on how three particular objects changed our lives. Those three objects are television, interstates, and internet. It was very interesting to see that interstates were one of the items on the list. Interstates certainly did help improve a network of shipments of goods and provide families and friends […]
February 21st, 2010 by Rachel | Tags: Anthropology, Magazine, Material Culture, News Media, Newspaper, Technology | No Comments »
Since the the iPad has been in the spotlight, there has been a big buzz about how it is going to change the landscape of the news media. Of course papers are dying, and I will admit that it can be a good thing as we’ll be able to help reduce the demolition of the […]
February 18th, 2010 by Rachel | Tags: Anthropology, Classroom, Material Culture, School, Technology | No Comments »
At the Material World blog, I read a blog entry about technologies emerging in classroom and it presented an article about the latest technologies created for the classrooms – click here to view the article. The writer brought up a very good set of questions that made me want to think: “As the school classroom […]