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Reportage in the Chinese-Speaking World
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2026), xiii, 292 pp.
"Reportage in the Chinese-Speaking World examines reportage as an important aesthetic form of cultural production in the Sinophone world. Originating as a proletarian nonfiction form in interwar Europe, reportage spread around the world, coming into its own in the Sinophone world from the 1930s to t
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Decolonising Approaches to Users and Audiences in the Global South: Context, Theory and Method
London: Routledge (2026), xvii, 334 pp.
"Including original essays and contemporary case studies spanning Africa, Middle East, Latin America, and Asia, this book provides a nuanced double critique of both local and West‑centric approaches, pushing back against historically extractive audience research logics that have marginalised globa
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Foundations in Cyber-Ethnography: A Cross-Cultural Approach
New York: Bloomsbury Academic (2026), x, 253 pp.
"Contributors to this volume contend that in the realm of research on human society, online and digital communication can no longer be relegated to a separate cyber space and should instead be considered in equal part by integrating cyber-ethnographic methods. Coming at a critical time where student
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Voice and Publics in West African Radio: »Grogneurs« as Media Activists in Bénin
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2026), 182 pp.
"This book examines the role of new media actors in the West African Republic of Bénin, commonly referred to as grogneurs or faiseurs d’opinion. These are frequent callers to interactive radio shows that openly discuss politics and society in contemporary Bénin. I argue that it is too simplistic
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Freedoms of Speech: Anthropological Perspectives on Language, Ethics, and Power
Deep Insights
Toronto: University of Toronto Press (2025), 479 pp.
"Bringing together leading anthropologists, this collection sheds light on the vast topic of freedoms of speech from a comparatively human perspective. Freedoms of Speech provides a sustained, empirical exploration of the variety of ways freedom of speech is lived, valued, and contested in practice;
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Satirical Tibet: The Politics of Humor in Contemporary Amdo
Seattle: University of Washington Press (2025), 238 pp.
"What does comedy look like when the wrong punchline can land you in jail? Humor has long been a vital, if underrecognized, component of Tibetan life. In recent years, alongside well-publicized struggles for religious freedom and cultural preservation, comedians, hip-hop artists, and other creatives
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The Information Animal
La Vergne: C. Hurst and Company (2025), 314 pp.
"Depending on the news you read, new tools like AI will either save or destroy us. But our response to emerging technology’s ‘unprecedented’ threats actually follows a pattern as old as civilisation. From ancient Athens to COVID-19, social media to spam, Alicia Wanless shows how humans have al
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Media Travels: Toward an Atlas of Global Media
Amherst College Press (2025), viii, 200 pp.
"Through careful and informed analysis, these eleven accessibly written chapters illustrate the particularities of different media practices and situate them within social, historical, and geographical contexts. Examples range from South African video games to Korean TV series popular in Latin Ameri
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Appropriating History: The Soviet Past in Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian Popular Culture
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2024), 316 pp.
"Popular media play an important role in reconstructing collective imaginations of history. Dramatic events and ruptures of the 20th century provide the material for playful as well as neo-imperialist and nationalist appropriations of the past. The contributors to the volume investigate this phenome
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Parler de la société à la société avec les proverbes, les contes, les chansons et les tambours: Une approche socio-anthropologique de la communication sociale en Afrique traditionnelle
Paris: L'Harmattan (2024), 264 pp.
"Les proverbes, les contes, les chansons et les tambours-parleurs sont, dans les sociétés traditionnelles africaines, l’espace où se tient le discours sur la vie sociale, ou plus exactement, le discours de la vie sociale, c’est-à-dire le discours que produit la société elle-même à ses in
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Television Publics in South Asia: Mediated Politics and Culture
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xiii, 250 pp.
"Television has a prime role to play in the formation of discursive domains in the everyday life of South Asian publics. This book explores various television media practices, social processes, mediated political experiences and everyday cultural compositions from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan
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The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xxv, 617 pp.
"Comprising 41 chapters by a team of international contributors, the companion is divided into three parts: histories; approaches; thematic considerations. The chapters offer wide-ranging explorations of how forms of mediation influence communication, social relationships, cultural practices, partic
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Fotogeschichten und Geschichtsbilder: Aneignung und Umdeutung historischer Fotografien in Tansania
Frankfurt am Main; New York: Campus Verlag (2023), 393 pp.
"In Tansania etablierten sich seit der Unabhängigkeit des Landes neue und eigenständige Praktiken in der Verwendung kolonialer Hinterlassenschaften. Ausgehend von den aktuellen Gebrauchsweisen dreier Fotografien aus dem späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert zeigt Eliane Kurmann, wie Tansanierinn
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Kamera-Ethnographie: Ethnographische Forschung im Modus des Zeigens. Programmatik und Praxis
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2022), 278 pp.
"Die Methode der Kamera-Ethnographie ist ein zeigendes statt beschreibendes Verfahren und nutzt Kameraführung, Schnitt und Montage im Rahmen einer visuellen Analytik und performativen Wissensform. Bina Elisabeth Mohns Programmschrift zeigt, wie Kamera-Ethnographie auch nonverbale Praktiken in ihren
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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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Image-Making-India: Visual Culture, Technology, Politics
London; New York: Routledge (2021), x, 165 pp.
"Building upon long-term ethnographic research among image-makers in Delhi, Mumbai and other Indian cities, the author interrogates the dialogue between visual culture, technology and changing notions of political participation. The book explores selected artistic experiences in documentary and fict
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Audiovisionen des Alltags: Quellenwert und mediale Weiternutzung
Münster; New York: Waxmann (2020), 185 pp.
"Bewegte Bilder und medial vermittelte Töne prägen unsere modernen Alltagskulturen in nahezu unvorstellbarer Weise. War es früher die Angelegenheit von wenigen Fachleuten, solche Angebote zu produzieren und zu distribuieren, kann sie seit der digitalen Revolution praktisch jede/r selbst erstellen
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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 Routledge International Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2020), xx, 359 pp.
"Comprised of 31 chapters authored by some of the world's leading experts in their respective fields, the book's contributors synthesize existing literature, introduce the historical and conceptual dimensions of the field, illustrate innovative methodologies and techniques, survey traditional and ne
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Anthropological Approaches to Media in Africa
"Anthropologists began to study media relatively late in the history of the discipline. Research on media - in particular, mass media - tended to be associated with the societies most anthropologists came from, and thus with the self rather than the other, and except for a few rare exceptions, it wa
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