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Understanding China through Digital Anthropology
New
London: UCL Press (2026), xviii, 305 pp.
"Understanding China through Digital Anthropology questions our understanding of digital technologies by demonstrating fundamental differences in the meaning of both technology and the digital between China and the West. This follows from a longstanding historical divergence in the meaning of and at
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The Sage Handbook of Chinese Digital Media and Communication
Deep Insights
London; Thousan Oaks (Cailf.) et al.: Sage (2026), 800 pp.
"Spanning activism, governance, labor, industry, everyday life, and research methods, the handbook offers a critical and interdisciplinary survey of the field. It explores how the internet and digital media have reshaped political participation, civil society, and national identity; how state regula
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Digital Indigenous Cultural Heritage
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xxiii, 373 pp.
"The digitising of Indigenous cultural heritage (CH) is not often debated in international research. A topical gap in research-based knowledge on the legal and ethical practices of various fields of Indigenous CH exists, for example, regarding digitisation, education, law, social processes, and crea
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Social Media and Ordinary Life: Affect, Ethics, and Aspiration in Contemporary China
New York: New York University Press (2025), viii, 285 pp.
"Focusing on domestic workers, rural microentrepreneurs, disadvantaged young creatives, and young feminists, Social Media and Ordinary Life is a deeply moving ethnography of how digital media infrastructures and platforms are woven into the rhythms of ordinary, everyday life. In choosing to foregrou
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Digital China: Creativity and Community in the Sinocybersphere
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2024), 312 pp.
"Over the past decade, digital technologies have profoundly reshaped the Chinese cultural landscape. With a focus on the creative agency of new media and online communities, this volume examines this development through the notion of the Sinocybersphere - the networked spaces across the globe that n
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Full Night: The Best Romanian Internet Cafe
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2024), 28 pp.
In/Visibility in the Digital Age: A Literature Review From a Communication Studies Perspective
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 5471-5493
"Visibility and its counterpart, invisibility, are critical concepts in digital communication, although research on these concepts in communication studies has rarely been reflected on in an integrative way. This article aims to map key discussions in current research on in/visibility from a communi
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Performing Technocapitalism
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag; Hans Böckler Stiftung (2024), 298 pp.
"In Kenya, technology entrepreneurs and makers have to employ their work and emotions in order to re-script their peripheral positionalities within technocapitalism and make Kenya a place for technology development. Based on ethnographic research in makerspaces and co-working spaces in Nairobi, Alev
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(Mis-)Connected: Web Series, Digital Culture, and Everyday Life in Lockdown
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), 2902-2918
"Web series are, in some ways, tailored for capturing everyday life in a pandemic. As shortform episodic content distributed via online platforms, the creators of Web series commonly work with tight budgets, recruiting crew and cast from their own networks, and making use of the home as an inexpensi
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Cryptopolitics: Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media
New York: Berghahn (2023), vii, 245 pp.
"Hidden information, double meanings, double-crossing, and the constant processes of encoding and decoding messages have always been important techniques in negotiating social and political power dynamics. Yet these tools, "cryptopolitics," are transformed when used within digital media. Focusing on
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Failurists: When things go awry
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2023), 204 pp.
New Horizons in Digital Anthropology: Innovation for Understanding Humanity
Paris: UNESCO; LiiV Center (2023), 59 pp.
"This publication, developed in partnership between UNESCO and the LiiV Center, maps the landscape of innovation in digital anthropology as an approach to ensure a better understanding of how human communities and societies interact and are shaped by technologies and, knowing this, how policies can
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Social media images and conflicts
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xii, 137 pp.
"This collection considers how digital images and social media reconfigure the way conflicts are played out, represented and perceived around the globe. Devoted to developing original theoretical frameworks and empirical insights, the volume addresses the role of user images and social media in rela
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El sueño de lo real: Nuevos realismos y tecnología digital
Buenos Aires: Teseo (2023), 221 pp.
"Son tres las preguntas importantes que articulan este libro. En primer lugar, si el auge de un nuevo pensamiento realista, que reflexiona sobre nuestra relación con los objetos materiales, con la naturaleza y con las ideas, es un pensamiento político. Con ese interrogante queremos examinar el mod
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Mixed Methods Perspectives on Communication and Social Media Research
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xxviii, 280 pp.
"Mixed Methods Perspectives on Communication and Social Media Research addresses the need for a discipline-cum-methodology-tailored book that navigates the current research spectrum of communication and social media ("CommSocMed"). It examines contemporary and relevant issues that intertwine the exp
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Music and Digital Media: A Planetary Anthropology
London: UCL Press (2022), xvi, 526 pp.
"Music and Digital Media is the first comparative ethnographic study of the impact of digital media on music worldwide. It offers a radical and lucid new theoretical framework for understanding digital media through music, showing that music is today where the promises and problems of the digital as
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Memes: Formen und Folgen eines Internetphänomens
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2022), 258 pp.
"Memes dienen nicht nur der popkulturellen Unterhaltung oder der Kunst, sie werden auch in der Politik, in lokalen und internationalen Wahlkämpfen oder auf Demonstrationen verwendet. In ihrer typischsten Form sind sie Text-Bild-Gefüge, die sich digital mit viraler Geschwindigkeit verbreiten und tr
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"Wie sozial sind Soziale Medien? Es gibt mindestens zwei asoziale Dimensionen im jetzigen Regime der Sozialen Medien: Sie sind sozial vor allem für die Betreiber und ihre Eigentümer. Der in Deutschland geltende Verfassungsgrundsatz der "informationellen Selbstbestimmung" wird für Nutzer und Nutze
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Spuren digitaler Artikulationen: Interdisziplinäre Annäherungen an soziale Medien als kultureller Bildungsraum
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2022), 226 pp.
"Beinahe täglich posten oder liken wir etwas auf Twitter, Facebook oder Instagram. Als Orte direkter Kommunikation und Interaktion sind die Sozialen Medien längst zu Plattformen für die Verhandlung und Verbreitung kultureller Ausdrucksformen unseres Alltags geworden. Doch bei näherer Betrachtung
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