Samuel Collins

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Title
Professor
Department
Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminal Justice
Institution
Towson University

Education

  • Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology, American University, 1998
  • M.A., Anthropology, American University, 1995
  • B.A., Anthropology & English Lit, Rice University, 1990

Research Interests

Information Society   Korean Society   Cultural Studies  

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Biography

I'm a cultural anthropologist interested in information society and globalization, primarily in the United States and Korea. My M.A. and Ph.D. are from American University in Washington, D.C. Before I became a professor at Towson University, I taught at Dongseo University in Pusan, South Korea. During 2006-2007, I spent a Fulbright year at Kookmin University in Seoul, and, during a Fulbright in 2014-2015, at Hanyang University in Gyeonggi-do. My online CV. You can also see my profile on the academic social networking site, academic.edu. ​​Finally, I blog frequently on anthropology, science fiction and the future at All Tomorrow’s Cultures.

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  410-704-3199

Research
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List of Publications (150)
In 2024
150

Samuel Collins and Matthew Durington (2024). Multimodal Methods in

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In 2023
149

Collins, Samuel (2023). "A World Made Safe for (Future) Differences: anthropology and utopian possibility." In What Could Go Right: Anthropological Engagements with Optimism," ed. by Anna Willow. NY: Routledge.

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148

Collins, Samuel (2023). "Science Fiction's Emergent Anthropologies: SF beyond anthropological science fiction." Rivista di Antropologia Contemporanea.

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147

Elkins, Kelly, Samuel Collins, Teresa Valais and Patrician Westerman (2023). "Unblocking Barriers to Learning." Journal of Faculty Development 37(2): 90-94.

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In 2022
146

Harper, Krista, Samuel Collins, Joseph Dumit, Matthew Durington, Edward Gonzalez-Tennat, Marc Lorenc, Nicholas Mizer and Anastasia Salter (2022). "Games and Public Anthropology." In "The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology."

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145

Collins, Samuel (2022). "The Secret Lives of ePortfolios: Text Network Analysis and the Future of Algorithmic Hiring." In "Applying Data Science and Learning Analytics Throughout a Learner's Lifespan," pp. edited by Goran Trajkovski Marylee Demeter and Heather Hayes. IGI Publishing.

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144

Collins, Samuel (2022). "Ghost Hunting on Google: Spirit Photography, Reverse Image Search and Urban Critique in Baltimore." Semiotic Review 3. [semioticreview.com]

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143

Collins, Samuel, Matthew Durington, Edward Gonzalez-Tennant, Krista Harper, Marc Lorenc, Nicholas Mizer and Anastasia Salter (2022). "Ten Things About Anthropology Games." Anthropology News 63(5): 27-29.

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142

Potter, Jennifer E., Samuel Collins and Patricia L. Westerman (2022). "Reinventing the Wheel: Basing a Mentoring Framework on Pieces of the Past and Hopes for the Future." Academic Leader. [http://www.academic-leader.com]

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141

Collins, Samuel (2022). "Margaret Mead Imagined Different Futures." Sapiens. https://www.sapiens.org/culture/margaret-mead-different-futures/

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In 2021
140

Collins, Samuel (2021). All Tomorrow's Cultures, second edition. NY:

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139

Collins, Samuel, Matthew Durington and Harjant Gill (2021). "The Uncertain Present and the Multimodal Future." American Anthropologist 123(1).

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In 2020
138

Durington, Matthew and Samuel Collins (2020). "Visual Ethnography: From Visual to Networked to Multimodal Practice. Handbook of Visual Communication, ed. By Sheree Josephson, Jim Kelley and Ken Smith. NY: Routledge.

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137

Collins, Samuel (2020). "Apps and Games." Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology. New York: Oxford University Press.

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136

Collins, Samuel and Matthew Durington (2020). "From Ethnographic Media to Multimodality." In Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video, ed. By Philip Vannini. NY: Routledge.

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135

Samuel Collins (2020). "Living in the Post-Plantation: Hampton Historical

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134

Anderson, Kirtsen Foseca, Jakayla Holmes and Ca'Syah Watkins (2020).

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133

Collins, Samuel and Matthew Durington (2020). "The case for letting anthropology be quarantined: COVID and the end of ethnographic presence." entanglements, 3(2): 92-96.

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In 2019
132

Collins, Samuel (2019). "Social Media." International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. NY: Wiley.

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131

Durington, Matthew and Samuel Collins (2019). "Rethinking Gentrification in Baltimore." In Baltimore Revisited, ed. By Nicole King.

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In 2018
130

Collins, Samuel [REPRINT] (2018). "City Full of Dreams: Freewalking Baltimore's Phantasmagoria." In En Plein Air: Ethnographies of the Digital, ed. By Pujan Karambeigi, Anneliese Ostertag, Tabea Rossol, Pierre Schwarzer and Lukas Stolz. Spectormag GbR.

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129

Collins, Samuel Gerald and Matthew Durington (2018). "Multi-modal

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128

(2018). Anthropology of Work Review 39(1): 5-9.

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127

Collins, Samuel Gerald (2018). "Anthropology's Latent Futures." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, December 18. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/anthropologys-latent-futures

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In 2017
126

Durington, Matthew and Samuel Collins (2017). "First State National

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125

Durington, Matthew and Samuel Collins (2017). "Rapid Ethnographic

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124

Social Media Activism" (2017). Digital Culture and Society 3(2).

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123

Matthew Durington, Samuel Collins, Niajea Randolph and Logan Young (2017). "Push It Along: On Not Making an Ethnographic Film in Baltimore." Transforming Anthropology 25(1): 25-34.

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122

Collins, Samuel Gerald, Matthew Durington and Nicole Fabricant (2017).

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121

Collins, Samuel Gerald (2017). "City Full of Dreams: Freewalking Baltimore's Phantasmagoria." Warehouse.industries

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120

Collins, Samuel Gerald (2017). "Things Which Have Been Once Conjoined: Science Fiction, Contagion and Magic in the Age of Social Media."

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119

Collins, Samuel, Matthew Durington and Harjant Gill (2017).

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118

and Casey O'Donnell (2017). "Ethnographic Apps/ Apps as

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In 2015
117

Durington, Matthew and Samuel Collins (2015). "Games

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116

Durington, Matthew and Samuel Collins (2015). "Anthropology By

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115

Durington, Matthew, Samuel Collins and Cameron Rines (2015).

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114

Collins, Samuel (2015). "Networked Spirits and Smart Se ances: Aura

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113

Collins, Samuel (2015). "Twitter on the Plaza." Anthropology

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In 2014
112

Collins, Samuel (2014). "Ghost Anthropologies." Monthly column in Anthropology News online (www.anthropology-news.org).

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111

Collins, Samuel and Matthew Durington (2014).

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110

Collins, Samuel (2014). "Poor Data, Rich Data, Big Data, Chief."

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109

Collins, Samuel (2014). "Ghost Anthropologies and Other Spectral

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In 2013
108

Collins, Samuel, Matthew Durington, Glenn Daniels, Natalie Demyan, David Rico, Julian Beckles and Cara Heasley (2013). "Tagging Culture: Building a

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107

Collins, Samuel (2013). "Parasite Anthropologies and the

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106

Collins, Samuel (2013). "Train to Pyongyang: imagination, utopia

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In 2012
105

Collins, Samuel Gerald (2012). "Activism in the Academy: Lessons from Baltimore and Beyond." Anthropology News 53(8).

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104

Wolf-Meyer, Matthew and Samuel Collins (2012). "Parasitic and

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103

Collins, Samuel and Matthew Durington (2012).

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In 2011
102

Collins, Samuel (2011). "Subways and Cell Phones: Seoul as a

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101

Collins, Samuel (2011). "Utopia and SF." Sense of Wonder, ed.

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100

Collins, Vladimir Eidelman and Chris Harman (2011)

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In 2010
99

Collins, Samuel (2010). "Sticky Cultures: Thinking Like an

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98

Collins, Samuel (2010). "Encouraging the Secret Vice in

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Collins, Samuel (2010) "'An Electronic Buzzer is Always

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96

Collins, Samuel (2010). "Old Anthropology in New Orleans."

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In 2009
95

Collins, Samuel and Luis Flores (2009). "The Game."

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94

Collins, Samuel and Goran Trajkovski (2009). "Mapping

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93

Collins, Samuel (2009) Library of Walls: the Library of

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Trajkovski, Goran and Samuel Collins (2009) Agent-Based Societies: Social

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Collins, Samuel (2009) "Circulating Nationalism in the Age of the Korean

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Collins, Vladimir Eidelman and Chris Harman (2009). "Cognitive

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In 2008
89

Trajkovski, Goran and Samuel Collins (2008). "Emergent Agents and

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88

Collins, Samuel (2008) "'Han Minjok' and Boundary Maintenance in

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87

Collins, Samuel and Goran Trajkovski (2008) [reprint].

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Collins, Samuel (2008) All Tomorrow's Cultures:

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In 2007
85

Collins, Samuel (2007) "Anthropology, Emergence and the

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In 2006
84

Trajkovski, Goran and Samuel Collins (2006). "Interaction and

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Collins, Samuel (2006) "If I'm Not in Control, Then Who Is?:

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Collins, Samuel and Goran Trajkovski (2006) "Attack of the Rainbow

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Trajkovski, Goran and Samuel Collins (2006) "Autochthony through

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Collins, Samuel (2006) "Imagined Cities, Real Futures:

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In 2005
79

Collins, Samuel (2005) "Temporalizing Post-Fordism in Alabama."

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Collins, Samuel (2005) "Culture on the Front Lines: National

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Collins, Samuel (2005) "Who's This Tong-il?": English, Culture and Ambivalence in South Korea. Changing English. 12(3): 417-429.

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Collins, Samuel (2005) "Colonies on the Moon/Cyborgs on the Earth: Evolution and Emergence in Anthropological Futures."

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Collins, Samuel (2005) "No Anthropologist Aboard the Enterprise:

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In 2004
74

Collins, Samuel (2004) "Su e Giu Per Le Citta Invisibli: SimCity e

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Collins, Samuel (2004) "'Scientifically Valid and Artistically True': Chad

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Collins, Samuel (2004) "Reading over the Shoulder of the Future at the Library of

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In 2003
71

Collins, Samuel (2003) "Sail On! Sail On!: Anthropology, Science

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In 1998
70

Collins, Samuel (1998) "Corporeal Labor at the Virtual Library:

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Unspecified
69

Emergent Phenomena in Societies of Agents." AI

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Song, Liyan, Qijie Cai, Suzhen Duan, Samuel Collins, Lin Deng, Yifan Guo, William Sadera (accepted). "The Integration of Learner Experience and Instructional Design in Design Thinking Instruction Across Three Disciplines: Education, Anthropology, and Computer Science."

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Collins, Samuel (submitted). "The Futures Anthropologists Don't See: intersections of anthropology and science fiction." In Imaginaries of the Present Future, edited by Bruce Kapferer and Rolph Erik Scott.

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Collins, Samuel (submitted). "Time, Text, Tweet, Travel: self, space, time and quantum potential in Seoul's subway." In Ethnographies of Mass Transportation, ed. by Stephane Tonnelat and Rashmi Sadana.

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Anthropology." International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. NY: Wiley.

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Without Frontiers." In Engaging Participatory Visual and Digital

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Research, edited by Aline Gubrium, Krista Harper, and Marty

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the Wire." Media, Engagement and Anthropological

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Practice, ed. by Simone Abram and Sarah Pink. NY: Berghahn Books.

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Network City." Trains, Modernity and Cultural Production,

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ed. by Ben Fraser and Steve Spalding. Lexington Books.

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by Leigh Grossman. Pomfret, CT: Swordsmith Productions.

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[reprint]. "Cognitive Robotics and Multiagency in a Fuzzy

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Modeling Framework." Developments in Intelligent Agent

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Technologies and Multiagent Systems, ed. by Goran

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Hybrid Agencies Through Multiagent Systems." Agent-

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Based Societies, ed. by Trajkovski and Collins, pp.

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"Attack of the Rainbow Robots: Generating Diversity

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Technologies, ed. by Vijayan Sugumaran, pp. 8-43. IGI

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the Politics of Emergence in Multiagent Systems."

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An Imitation-Based Approach to Modeling Homogenous

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Agents Societies, ed. by Goran Trajkovski. IDEA

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Character, Evolution and Emergence." Democracy and

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Homeland Security, ed. by Nawal Ammar. Kent, OH: Kent

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Systems." Diversity in IT Education: Issues and

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Challenges, ed. by Goran Trajkovski. IDEA Publishing.

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la co-produzione della distopia urbana." In SimCity:

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Mappando Le citta virtuali, ed. by Matteo Bittanti.

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In Beyond the Lavender Lexicon ed. by William Leap, pp. 155-172.

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10th Annual Multicultural Conference, pp. 16-19.

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Mansion in the Context of Baltimore County Development." In Tracing Lives in

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Slavery: Reclaiming Families in Freedom, ed. by Cheryl Janifer LaRoche. National Park Service.

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Historical Park Rapid Assessment Ethnography." Van Alen Institute.

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Assessment and Networked Anthropology for Potomac

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Networked Anthropology: A Primer for Ethnographers.

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34

Congress and the Contradictions of Information

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Samuel Collins and Matthew Durington (under review). Bridges, Not Fences:

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Identifying New Connections for Community-Based Organizations

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and Cultural Interactions. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

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Samuel Gerald Collins, Matthew Durington, Candace Everette, Jamya

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"Collaborative App-Making as a Research Method." Engage! 1(3):

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"Working for the Robocracy: critical ethnography of robot futures"

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"Twitter in Place: Examining Seoul's Gwanghwamun Plaza Through

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"Teaching Baltimore Together: building thematic cooperation between classes." Metropolitan Universities 28(2).

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"Baltimore Steel Stories." Anthropology of Work Review 36(2): 97-101.

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and the Anthropological Gaze in the Era of the Internet of Things." History

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Public Anthropology Through Social Media." Human Organization

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Persistence of Cultural Survivals." Semiotic Review 1.1.

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and Korean unification." Utopian Studies 24.1.

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20

Laughing': the Josiah Macy, Jr. Conferences on

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Cybernetics and the Anthropologist's Joke." Cybernetics

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18

Wave: Re-inventing the Nation for Study Abroad". Asian Anthropology

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Trajkovski, Goran, Georgi Stojanov, Giovanni Vincenti, Samuel

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Robotics and Multiagency in a Fuzzy Modeling

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Shock of the Foregone." After Culture 1(1).

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Self-organization: Interactivism and emergence in a

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Virtual environment." New Ideas in Psychology 24(2):

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SimCity and the Co-Production of Urban Dystopias."

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International Journal of the Humanities 2(1): 649-657.

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Science Fiction and the Future in the Anthropology

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Classroom." Anthropology & Education Quarterly 36(2):

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Oliver, Anthropology and Anthropological Science Fiction." Science Fiction

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Fiction and the Enticing Future." Science Fiction Studies 30(2): 180-198.

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Information, Transparency and Inequality at the Library of Congress." Journal of

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Collins, Samuel (submitted). "Communication without Control: Anthropology and Alternative Models of Information at the Josiah Macy, Jr. Conferences in Cybernetics." History of Anthropology Review.

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"Multimodality: An Invitation." American Anthropologist 119(1):

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Collins, Samuel, Matthew Durington, Paolo Favero, Krista Harper, Ali Kenner

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Symbiotic: the Ambivalence of Necessity." Semiotic

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"Coming to Terms with Networked Anthropology." Anthropology News 4(5).

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