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E-seminar: Media and social changing since 1979

John Postill wrote 3 weeks ago: This e-seminar took place some time ago (in December 2012) but I thought I’d repost the releva … more →

Tags: change, Epistemology, Ethnography, media anthropology, John Postill, media practices, Media Studies, Media Theory, social change

Field Site found!

anjaventer wrote 1 month ago: Today I met up with Colin Stevens, the head of the Ibhabhatane Project at the Frank Joubert Art Cent … more →

Tags: my notes, Frank Joubert Art Centre, art and culture focus schools, participation, Art & School, Western Cape, cape town, Newlands, Anja Venter

Final Virtual Class Discussion142 comments

dleopard wrote 5 months ago: For the final virtual class discussion, watch the clips, then post a short critical reading as a com … more →

Tags: old bones, Popular Culture, technology, Rolling Stones

Book review (1) of Localizing the Internet, by John Postill

John Postill wrote 5 months ago: Localizing the Internet: An Anthropological Account. John Postill. Oxford: Berghahn, 2011. xxv + 150 … more →

Tags: activism, Digital Anthropology, Digital Media, Field theory, Fieldwork, internet studies, localising the internet, Malaysia, Manchester School

Follow their interests: the theory and ethnography of microblogging as a protest practice1 comment

John Postill wrote 7 months ago: Paper to the #IR13 Conference, Salford University, UK Session 050: Ethnographies of Online and Mobil … more →

Tags: Anthropology, internet studies, localising the internet, Manchester School, media anthropology, microblogging, Political Anthropology, Social Media, Social Movements

New paper: Webcam and the theory of attainment

John Postill wrote 7 months ago: WEBCAM AND THE THEORY OF ATTAINMENT Daniel Miller and Jolynna Sinanan (UCL) Working Paper for the EA … more →

Tags: Anthropology, Digital Anthropology, Media Theory, technology, Visual Anthropology, Daniel Miller, danny miller, digital ethnography, Ethnography

Free e-seminar on webcam ethnography, 9-23 October 2012

John Postill wrote 8 months ago: By Steve Lyon (Durham University) via Media Anthropology Network mailing list Dear List The next Med … more →

Tags: Anthropology, Digital Anthropology, Digital Media, internet studies, Material Culture, sociality, Visual Anthropology, Web 2.0, danny miller

New ethnography of Pentecostal TV drama in Kinshasa

John Postill wrote 9 months ago: via Berghahn Books THE MAKING OF THE PENTECOSTAL MELODRAMA Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa Ka … more →

Tags: media anthropology, Anthropology, Ethnography, Religion, Africa, Media Production, Youth, .:*Conflict*:., development

Media and social changing since 1979

John Postill wrote 10 months ago: View this document on Scribd Sadly I had to cancel my trip to the EASA conference in Nanterre, Paris … more →

Tags: media anthropology, media change, social change, Europe, internet studies, Digital Anthropology, social theory, South East Asia, Anthropology

Media and social changing

John Postill wrote 11 months ago: Over at the EASA Media Anthropology Network mailing list we’re holding our 40th e-seminar. The … more →

Tags: media anthropology, History, Cultural Change, change, Easa, media anthropology network, social change, E-seminar, Shaun Moores

Researching digital media and social change: A theory of practice approach13 comments

John Postill wrote 1 year ago: Milan presentation notes, IULM University, 26 January 2012 Introduction Many thanks to Alessandra Mi … more →

Tags: Anthropology, change, Media Production, Media Studies, Methodology, microblogging, mobile technologies, practice theory, social theory

Best of media/anthropology 20112 comments

John Postill wrote 1 year ago: As readers of this blog will know, I use this site as a notebook where I occasionally gather thought … more →

Tags: Academia, activism, Anthropology, media and conflict, media anthropology, Media Ecology, 2011, Blogging, John Postill

Beautiful balloon: The digital divide and the charisma of new media in India

John Postill wrote 1 year ago: By William Mazzarella via Academia.edu It was a truly millennial idea. Around 1999–2000, the shiny a … more →

Tags: media anthropology, media change, social change, internet studies, Digital Anthropology, social theory, South Asia, Anthropology, India

Not Just for Suckers

trojantopher wrote 1 year ago: Queen Mab, faerie queen from Season 4 of True Blood As I’ve grown older, I have to increasingly come … more →

Tags: Horror, media, pop culture, Television, Youth, Authenticity. Stereotypes, Camilla, Grimm, HBO

Democracy in the age of viral reality (4)

John Postill wrote 1 year ago: Continued from Democracy in the age of viral reality (3) Distributed democracy What are the implicat … more →

Tags: activism, Digital Anthropology, digital epidemiology, Ethnography, Europe, media anthropology, Media Ecology, Politics, Power

Democracy in the age of viral reality (3)

John Postill wrote 1 year ago: Continued from Democracy in the age of viral reality (2) Media epidemiography In the introduction I … more →

Tags: activism, Digital Anthropology, digital epidemiology, Digital Media, Ethnography, Europe, internet studies, media anthropology, Media Ecology

Digital change in emerging economies: no global convergence (1)2 comments

John Postill wrote 1 year ago: The growing strength and influence of the world’s ‘emerging economies’ is one of the more significan … more →

Tags: media anthropology, media change, social change, Digital Anthropology, media sociology, Media Studies, Media Theory, internet studies, digital studies

Social media, activism and the #SpanishRevolution

John Postill wrote 1 year ago: Invited paper by John Postill to the first Ørecomm Festival, Agency in the Mediatized World, 9–13 Se … more →

Tags: media anthropology, Anthropology, Ethnography, Political Anthropology, Web 2.0, Europe, activism, Digital Anthropology, Social Media

The unevenness of social change 3 comments

John Postill wrote 1 year ago: By John Postill* In his 1958 monograph Politics in an Urban African Community, the Manchester School … more →

Tags: media anthropology, media change, social change, internet studies, Digital Anthropology, activism, South East Asia, John Postill, Field theory


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