Cybersociobiology

Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson sounding a bit like cyber-utopian Clay Shirky: “groups of cooperators can out-compete groups of non-cooperators, thereby ensuring that their genes — including the ones that predispose them to cooperation — are handed down to future generations.” Its not kin but community that drives altruism–online and on the savannah.

Or so they say…

Adam Fish researches the intersections of culture, power, and technology. He focuses on how media corporations and political movements imagine themselves and the social and political relevancies of the internet and television. Adam investigates America-based cable television networks attempting to balance neoliberalism, federal policy, and social media in their pursuit of profit, social justice, and improvements of the public sphere. This focus on applied anthropology was developed in over ten years as an indigenous and federal archaeologist. Fish also works for public anthropology through television and film production. You can see his television documentaries at mediacultures.org and follow him on Twitter @mediacultures.