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Virtual Reality
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Music
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Muslim Digital Media & Online Communities
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Rural Communication, Media in Rural Areas
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Mobile Phones in Rural Areas
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Economic, Political and Social Effects
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Nomades
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Rohingya
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Alternative Technologies
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Mobile Phone Use for Social Purposes, Mobiles for Development
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Mobile Assemblages and Maendeleo in Rural Kenya
Bamenda: Langaa (2021), 208 pp.
"In this book, Leah Komen explores the impact of mobile telephony on the lives of people in rural Kenya. The book analyses the outcomes of complex intersections and interactions between mobile phones, individuals, and the broader society as distinct from the traditional cause-effect relationships in
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Digitale Bildkulturen: Bildproteste, Screenshots, Hassbilder, Netzfeminismus und Selfies
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2021), 397 pp.
"Als Selfie oder im politischen Prozess, als gleichermaßen fluide wie langlebige Postings, in verstörenden Hassbildern oder als Labor des Feminismus wirken digitale Bilder in je eigenen Kontexten: Menschen inszenieren sich und werden inszeniert, vernetzen und bekämpfen sich, posieren und protesti
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Digital Anthropology
London; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2021), xii, 336 pp.
"Digital Anthropology 2nd Edition explores how human and digital can be defined in relation to one another within issues as diverse as social media use, virtual worlds, hacking, quantified self, blockchain, digital environmentalism and digital representation. The book challenges the moral universal
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Netnography Unlimited: Understanding Technoculture Using Qualitative Social Media Research
New York; London: Routledge (2021), xv, 325 pp.
"Shaped by academic fields, industries, national contexts, technologies and platforms, and languages and cultures, for over two decades netnography has impacted the research practices of scholars around the world. In this volume, thirty-two researchers present nineteen chapters that examine how they
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Wanghong as Social Media Entertainment in China
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), ix, 197 pp.
"In Chinese, the term wanghong refers to creators, social media entrepreneurs alternatively known as KOLs (key opinion leaders) and zhubo (showroom hosts), influencers and micro-celebrities. Wanghong also refers to an emerging media ecology in which these creators cultivate online communities for cu
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Digital Media Practices in Households: Kinship Through Data
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2020), 205 pp.
"In this book, we have investigated the evolving intergenerational media practices over three years to reflect on the quotidian (and often invisible) forms of care at a distance enacted as part of contemporary Digital Kinship. As we have explored, within different cultural contexts we are seeing div
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The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West
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Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press (2019), 269 pp.
"The Next Billion Users reveals that many assumptions about internet use in developing countries are wrong. After immersing herself in factory towns, slums, townships, and favelas, Payal Arora assesses real patterns of internet usage in India, China, South Africa, Brazil, and the Middle East. She fi
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Social Media Literacy, Ethnicity and Peacebuilding in Kenya
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2019), 14 pp.
"Kenya has experienced a cycle of political violence following a series of controversial elections that have centred on ethnic competition, leading to human rights abuses, deaths, destruction of property and a downward economic spiral. At the core of election violence, witnessed in 2007/8 and in 201
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Internet in Nairobi, Kenia: Medienaneignung als Konstruktion
Bielefeld: transcript (2019), 314 pp.
"Johanna Rieß untersucht, wie sich Nutzer_innen aus drei verschiedenen Internetcafés in Nairobi/Kenia das Internet aneignen und welche Einsichten sich über dieses Medium ergeben. Erzählt wird außerdem eine ausführliche Digitalisierungsgeschichte Kenias. Dabei zeigt sich, dass gängige Annahmen
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Thanks for Watching: An Anthropological Study of Video Sharing on YouTube
Louisville: University Press of Colorado (2019), 352 pp.
"The author demonstrates how core concepts from anthropology—participant-observation, reciprocity, and community—apply to sociality on YouTube. Lange’s book reconceptualizes and updates these concepts for video-sharing cultures. Lange draws on 152 interviews with YouTube participants at gather
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The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media
New York; London: Routledge, paperback ed. (2017), xxiii, 558 pp.
"The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media seeks to be the definitive publication for scholars and students interested in comprehending all the various aspects of mobile media. This collection, which gathers together original articles by a global roster of contributors from a variety of disciplines, s
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Social Media in Emergent Brazil: How the Internet Affects Social Change
London: UCL Press;University College London (2017), xviii, 240 pp.
"Based on 15 months of ethnographic research, this book aims to understand why low-income Brazilians have invested so much of their time and money in learning about social media. Juliano Spyer explores this question from a number of perspectives, including education, relationships, work and politics
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Social Media in South India
London: UCL Press;University College London (2017), xi, 240 pp.
"One of the first ethnographic studies to explore the use of social media in the everyday lives of people in Tamil Nadu, 'Social Media in South India' provides an understanding of this subject in a region experiencing rapid transformation. The influx of IT companies over the past decade into what wa
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Social Media in Trinidad: Values and Visibility
London: UCL Press (2017), xiv, 236 pp.
"Drawing on 15 months of ethnographic research in one of the most under-developed regions in the Caribbean island of Trinidad, this book describes the uses and consequences of social media for its residents. Jolynna Sinanan argues that this semi-urban town is a place in-between: somewhere city dwell
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Visualising Facebook: A Comparative Perspective
London: UCL Press (2017), ix, 224 pp.
"Why do women respond so differently to becoming a mother in England from the way they do in Trinidad? How are values such as carnival and suburbia expressed visually? Based on an examination of over 20,000 images, the authors argue that phenomena such as selfies and memes must be analysed in their
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Digital Environments: Ethnographic Perspectives Across Global Online and Offline Spaces
Bielefeld: transcript (2017), 267 pp.
Redes sociales, virtualidad y subjetividades
México, DF: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (2017), 314 pp.
Asian Video Cultures: In the Penumbra of the Global
Durham; London: Duke University Press (2017), viii, 360 pp.
The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography
New York; London: Routledge (2017), xxiv, 494 pp.
"With the increase of digital and networked media in everyday life, researchers have increasingly turned their gaze to the symbolic and cultural elements of technologies. From studying online game communities, locative and social media to YouTube and mobile media, ethnographic approaches to digital
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Nach der Revolution: Ein Brevier digitaler Kulturen
Berlin; Duisburg: Tempus Corporate;Haniel Stiftung (2017), 204 pp.
"Der Sammelband enthält 15 Beiträge von Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern unterschiedlicher Disziplinen (Medien- und Kulturwissenschaft, Soziologie, Organisations- und Managementforschung, Ethnologie, Sozialpsychologie, Kulturgeschichte). In kurzen Essays werden pointiert Aspekte des kultu
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