Timothy Webmoor
Biographic Data
| ID | 189104 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy Webmoor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Webmoor |
| SIGNATURE | WEBMOOR T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 468 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Timely Things: From Argos to Mycenae and Beyond
Coisas são nós! Um comentário sobre as relações humano/coisas sob a bandeira da Arqueologia Social
Qual papel desempenha o adjetivo “social” em Arqueologia Social? Qual o caráter das relações humano/coisas sob a rubrica da arqueologia social? Levantamos essas questões em relação ao recente “A Companion to Social Archaeology” de Meskell e Preucel. Enquanto o corretivo “social” tem sido extremamente produtivo, com o levantamento destas questões entramos em águas muito turvas. Nossa tarefaneste artigo é mostrar onde os sentidos do “social” falira…
Archaeology: Philosophy and Science
Visualization in the Age of Computerization
Digitalization and computerization are now pervasive in science. This has deep consequences for our understanding of scientific knowledge and of the scientific process, and challenges longstanding assumptions and traditional frameworks of thinking of scientific knowledge. Digital media and computational processes challenge our conception of the way in which perception and cognition work in science, of the objectivity of science, and the nature of…
Archaeology: The Discipline of Things
The “science of old things,” archaeology is marked by its care, obligation, and loyalty to things, from ancient cities in the Mexican heartland and megalithic monuments in Britain to the perfume jars of the ancient Greek city-state and Leica cameras. This book seeks to understand the diverse practices that arise through this disciplinary commitment to things.
Agile Ethics for Massified Research and Visualization
In this paper, the authors examine some of the implications of born-digital research environments by discussing the emergence of data mining and the analysis of social media platforms. With the rise of individual online activity in chat rooms, social networking sites and micro-blogging services, new repositories for social science research have become available in large quantities. Given the changes of scale that accompany such research, both in …
Archaeology: The Discipline of Things
Archaeology has always been marked by its particular care, obligation, and loyalty to things. While archaeologists may not share similar perspectives or practices, they find common ground in their concern for objects monumental and mundane. This book considers the myriad ways that archaeologists engage with things in order to craft stories, both big and small, concerning our relations with materials and the nature of the past. Literally the "scie…
From Silicon Valley to the Valley of Teotihuacan: The “Yahoo!s” of New Media and Digital Heritage
This article examines the convergence of new media and archaeology, specifically cultural heritage management. I examine the events involving Yahoo!'s creation of a global, “electric anthropology archive.” This archive was part of the company's “mixed reality” time capsule project to transmit user‐generated digital contributions from the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Teotihuacan, Mexico. Working through the specifics of how this new media mogul o…
Things Are Us! A Commentary on Human/Things Relations under the Banner of a ‘Social’ Archaeology
What work does the adjective ‘social’ in social archaeology do? What is the character of human/things relations under the rubric of social archaeology? We raise these questions in relation to the recent Companion to Social Archaeology by Meskell and Preucel. While the corrective of the ‘social’ has been extremely productive, in broaching these questions we enter very murky waters. Our task in this article is to show where meanings of the ‘social’…
What about 'one more turn after the social' in archaeological reasoning? Taking things seriously
This paper discusses the principle of symmetry for archaeology in light of the discipline's theoretical legacy. At the core, this principle involves a reconfiguration of how the relationship between humans and things is characterized. Advocating the recognition of mixtures of what are routinely parsed into categories of nature and society, a symmetrical archaeology centres itself upon the equitable study of the discipline's defining ingredients. …
Mediational techniques and conceptual frameworks in archaeology: A model in ‘mapwork’ at Teotihuacán, Mexico
A recent trend in archaeology has been to turn reflexive attention upon the methods employed by archaeologists in field practice. In this article, I take a step back to consider the map as a fundamental conceptual framework that archaeologists utilize in directing their methods and formulating interpretations. I explore what a map 'does' for the consideration of a site. I work around this question with the 'Millon map' of Teotihuacán, Mexico as a…
Archaeology: The Discipline of Things
Archaeology has always been marked by its particular care, obligation, and loyalty to things. While archaeologists may not share similar perspectives or practices, they find common ground in their concern for objects monumental and mundane. This book considers the myriad ways that archaeologists engage with things in order to craft stories, both big and small, concerning our relations with materials and the nature of the past. Literally the "scie…
Things Are Us! A Commentary on Human/Things Relations under the Banner of a ‘Social’ Archaeology
What work does the adjective ‘social’ in social archaeology do? What is the character of human/things relations under the rubric of social archaeology? We raise these questions in relation to the recent Companion to Social Archaeology by Meskell and Preucel. While the corrective of the ‘social’ has been extremely productive, in broaching these questions we enter very murky waters. Our task in this article is to show where meanings of the ‘social’…
What about 'one more turn after the social' in archaeological reasoning? Taking things seriously
This paper discusses the principle of symmetry for archaeology in light of the discipline's theoretical legacy. At the core, this principle involves a reconfiguration of how the relationship between humans and things is characterized. Advocating the recognition of mixtures of what are routinely parsed into categories of nature and society, a symmetrical archaeology centres itself upon the equitable study of the discipline's defining ingredients. …
Mediational techniques and conceptual frameworks in archaeology: A model in ‘mapwork’ at Teotihuacán, Mexico
A recent trend in archaeology has been to turn reflexive attention upon the methods employed by archaeologists in field practice. In this article, I take a step back to consider the map as a fundamental conceptual framework that archaeologists utilize in directing their methods and formulating interpretations. I explore what a map 'does' for the consideration of a site. I work around this question with the 'Millon map' of Teotihuacán, Mexico as a…
From Silicon Valley to the Valley of Teotihuacan: The “Yahoo!s” of New Media and Digital Heritage
This article examines the convergence of new media and archaeology, specifically cultural heritage management. I examine the events involving Yahoo!'s creation of a global, “electric anthropology archive.” This archive was part of the company's “mixed reality” time capsule project to transmit user‐generated digital contributions from the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Teotihuacan, Mexico. Working through the specifics of how this new media mogul o…
Mediational techniques and conceptual frameworks in archaeology: A model in ‘mapwork’ at Teotihuacán, Mexico
A recent trend in archaeology has been to turn reflexive attention upon the methods employed by archaeologists in field practice. In this article, I take a step back to consider the map as a fundamental conceptual framework that archaeologists utilize in directing their methods and formulating interpretations. I explore what a map 'does' for the consideration of a site. I work around this question with the 'Millon map' of Teotihuacán, Mexico as a…
What about 'one more turn after the social' in archaeological reasoning? Taking things seriously
This paper discusses the principle of symmetry for archaeology in light of the discipline's theoretical legacy. At the core, this principle involves a reconfiguration of how the relationship between humans and things is characterized. Advocating the recognition of mixtures of what are routinely parsed into categories of nature and society, a symmetrical archaeology centres itself upon the equitable study of the discipline's defining ingredients. …
From Silicon Valley to the Valley of Teotihuacan: The “Yahoo!s” of New Media and Digital Heritage
This article examines the convergence of new media and archaeology, specifically cultural heritage management. I examine the events involving Yahoo!'s creation of a global, “electric anthropology archive.” This archive was part of the company's “mixed reality” time capsule project to transmit user‐generated digital contributions from the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Teotihuacan, Mexico. Working through the specifics of how this new media mogul o…
Things Are Us! A Commentary on Human/Things Relations under the Banner of a ‘Social’ Archaeology
What work does the adjective ‘social’ in social archaeology do? What is the character of human/things relations under the rubric of social archaeology? We raise these questions in relation to the recent Companion to Social Archaeology by Meskell and Preucel. While the corrective of the ‘social’ has been extremely productive, in broaching these questions we enter very murky waters. Our task in this article is to show where meanings of the ‘social’…
Archaeology: The Discipline of Things
The “science of old things,” archaeology is marked by its care, obligation, and loyalty to things, from ancient cities in the Mexican heartland and megalithic monuments in Britain to the perfume jars of the ancient Greek city-state and Leica cameras. This book seeks to understand the diverse practices that arise through this disciplinary commitment to things.
Agile Ethics for Massified Research and Visualization
In this paper, the authors examine some of the implications of born-digital research environments by discussing the emergence of data mining and the analysis of social media platforms. With the rise of individual online activity in chat rooms, social networking sites and micro-blogging services, new repositories for social science research have become available in large quantities. Given the changes of scale that accompany such research, both in …
Archaeology: The Discipline of Things
Archaeology has always been marked by its particular care, obligation, and loyalty to things. While archaeologists may not share similar perspectives or practices, they find common ground in their concern for objects monumental and mundane. This book considers the myriad ways that archaeologists engage with things in order to craft stories, both big and small, concerning our relations with materials and the nature of the past. Literally the "scie…
Visualization in the Age of Computerization
Digitalization and computerization are now pervasive in science. This has deep consequences for our understanding of scientific knowledge and of the scientific process, and challenges longstanding assumptions and traditional frameworks of thinking of scientific knowledge. Digital media and computational processes challenge our conception of the way in which perception and cognition work in science, of the objectivity of science, and the nature of…
Archaeology: Philosophy and Science
Coisas são nós! Um comentário sobre as relações humano/coisas sob a bandeira da Arqueologia Social
Qual papel desempenha o adjetivo “social” em Arqueologia Social? Qual o caráter das relações humano/coisas sob a rubrica da arqueologia social? Levantamos essas questões em relação ao recente “A Companion to Social Archaeology” de Meskell e Preucel. Enquanto o corretivo “social” tem sido extremamente produtivo, com o levantamento destas questões entramos em águas muito turvas. Nossa tarefaneste artigo é mostrar onde os sentidos do “social” falira…
Timely Things: From Argos to Mycenae and Beyond
History (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · History (5 works) · Archaeological Research and Protection (4 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Art (3 works)