Let's say you go to western China to study how minorities use the internet. And then you find that they don't. In the nearest town, Gyalthang town (Shangri La), which is half an hour away on a bicycle, there are a few Internet cafés. Sometimes Lhamo would go with me to the Internet café and one day I had an email account set up for her. Ahh, now we have a subject for our study. How nice! Smells like good ol'-fashioned last-century anthropology. (I'm just sayin' that's the impression that I get. I don't really have a clue what's going on there. Obviously they have Tibetan language capabilities on the computer and stuff. This entry just means I'm really curious about the study, in a good way. Honest.)