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Daily Journal Entry #11863 06/22/08 Sun

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Jason C. Romero
on September 24, 2008
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More Digital Youth in East Asia

There was less on this day that caught my interest.

Roland Nozomu Kelts made an interesting point about the way in which certain technologies allow for you to feel things that you did not and wouldn’t have felt before. For example, after you get an answering machine you experience lament when you return home and discover that no one has called, but this is a new feeling that you didn’t experience before you got the answering machine. Unfortunately, Kelts appears to be a little anti-tech in an unnuanced way, ending with, “Let’s not be cut off by the machine,” and, in the question and answer session, exclaiming, “I think [Twitter] reduces you to like 90 characters. It’s so childish. It robs us of our ability to participate in the public sphere.” This was ironic since I had updated Twitter the day before to say that I was at the Digital Youth in East Asia conference.

Anne Allison had a great presentation on Takimoto’s Welcome to the N.H.K.. She questioned the relationship between the appearance of the keitai and our seemingly increasing isolation from each other.

Ken Kissoker wrapped up the conference by saying, “On Facebook you can list your relationship status as ‘It’s complicated.” And I think that’s the answer to these questions about digital youth — it’s complicated.” Brilliant. ( ^ _ ^ )

Links

  • Seems a lot of people (who don’t have a direct interest in Japan) are sharing this Time article about “elder porn” in Japan.
  • Eat your heart out Merleau-Ponty — I’M IN LOVE WITH THIS CANE!

Daily Journal Entry #11854 06/13/08 Fri

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on August 18, 2008
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Ni-chome

I sat with someone I’d met the night before and was surprised to hear his friend say, “I want to be Hard Gay,” after he told me he liked my piercings and that he wanted to get a labret.

Earthquake

There was an earthquake around 9 a.m. and I immediately went onto Summize and searched for earthquake after it happened to see what people were saying about it on Twitter.

It was pretty fascinating to see a distributed community blossom around this interaction event, and it makes me wonder how anthropology is prepared to handle moments like this and what these moments mean.

Minutiae

  • Woke up around 8 p.m.
  • Saw some sex workers near Ueno station and ate at Yoshinoya.
  • Spent forever picking out groceries.