An Anthropologist, a Political Scientist, and 3 Sociologists Walk Into a Bar

[1]Jon, Arturo, and Chris are joined by Jose Marichal [2] (of ThickCulture [3]) and Alexandre Enkerli [4]. A wide-ranging discussion ensues, and we tackle questions such as:

Why haven't we had any women on this podcast?

Is there anything wrong with Berkeley taking DNA samples [5] from incoming undergraduates?

And when Eric Schmidt makes the distinction between privacy and anonymity [6], is he making any sense?

We also manage to start a discussion about pornography on the internet and end up talking about the failure of consensus in the Senate [7]. Try to guess how we get from point A to point B on that one.

Various links referenced in the episode:

Paula Priesse on Facebook [8] ("Conservative comedy spoofing a well-meaning, young, progressive, and utterly hapless American woman")

Is Facebook bigger than porn? [9]

Facebook Privacy Settings: Who Cares? [10]

WEIRD biased Psychology studies [11]

Where People Position the Parties [12]

Class and location-based web services [13]

Improv Number Ten! [14]

[1] https://thesocietypages.org/improv/files/2010/08/album-art-ep10.png

[2] http://www.callutheran.edu/schools/cas/faculty_profile.php?major_id=97&profile_id=163

[3] https://thesocietypages.org/thickculture/

[4] http://enkerli.com/

[5] https://thesocietypages.org/thickculture/2010/08/10/from-the-very-cool-slightly-creepy-future-files/

[6] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/10/eric-schmidt-privacy-stan_n_677224.html

[7] http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/09/100809fa_fact_packer?currentPage=all

[8] http://www.facebook.com/pages/Paula-Priesse/256566055895

[9] http://www.examiner.com/x-14552-Social-Media-Examiner~y2010m1d1-Social-media-bigger-than-porn-Is-this-a-surprising-revalation

[10] http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3086/2589

[11] http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=psychology-studies-biased-toward-we-10-08-07

[12] http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/2010/08/self-identified-democrats-are-largely-happy-with-the-ideological-position-of-elected-democrats/

[13] http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/will_facebooks_new_location_feature_make_poor_peop.php

[14] http://mediamill.cla.umn.edu/mediamill/download.php.mp3?orig=60423.mp3