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Anthropology of Media & Communication
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Media Ethnography
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Visual Anthropology
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Ethnographic Films
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Audiences & Users
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Television Consumption, Televison Use, Television Audiences
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Digital & Social Media Use, Internet Use
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Participatory Videos & Community Filmmaking
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Traditional Communication
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Digital Anthropology, Cyberanthropology
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Indigenous Communication
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Mobile Phone Use
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Ritual Communication & Media Rituals
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Social Media
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ICTs and Poverty Reduction
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Soap Operas & Telenovelas
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Photography
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Islam and Communication
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Ethnographic Research
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Visual Communication
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Media Use: Lower Classes & Poor Population
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Cinema
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Documentaries, Television Documentaries, Web Documentaries
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History of Film & Cinema
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Telecentres, Community Telecentres, Internet Cafés
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Oral Cultures & Traditions, Oral History, Oral Testimonies
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Traditional Music
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Mythology & Communication, Media Myths
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Cultural Identity
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History of Media: Colonial Period
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History of Photography
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Ethnographic Photography
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Politics and Media
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National Identity & Media, Nationalism & Communication
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Everyday Life
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Participatory Research Methods
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Qualitative Research Methods
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Social Anthropology
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Mobile Phones, Smartphones
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Urban Communication, Urban Media
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User-Generated Contents
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Advertising
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Forestry, Deforestation, Forest Protection
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Digital & Social Media Use: Children
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Digital & Social Media Use: Youth
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Elderly People: Media Use
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Film Audiences, Film Consumption
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Mobile Phone Use: Children
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Media Use: Families
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Media Use: Migrants & Diasporas
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Media Use: Minorities & Disadvantaged Groups
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Television Use: Women
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Television Use: Youth
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News Consumption & Information Sources of Media Users
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Religious Media Use, Religious Media Audiences
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Catholic Church: Media Representation & Reporting
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Child Migrants, Child Refugees, Child Diasporas
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Aesthetics in Film & Visual Communication
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Film Actors, Directors & Producers, Filmmakers
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Religious Films
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Film Trade, Film Export & Import
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Bollywood
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Films
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Plagiarism
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Surveillance, Surveillance Technologies, Spyware
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Media Freedom, Press Freedom
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Storytelling
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Conflicts and Media
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Conflict Reporting, Armed Conflict Reporting
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War Reporting
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Aesthetics in Media & Communication
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Discourse & Discourse Analysis
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Religious Functions & Messages of the Media
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Theatre
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Digital Cultures
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Influence of Media on Traditional Cultures
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Tales, Legends, Traditional Literary Lore
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Mass Cultures
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Clothing & Fashion
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Social Change & Media / Communication
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Digital Healthcare & Information, Mobile Health, E-Health, Telemedicine
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Internet / ICTs and Social Change
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Digital Political Communication
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Facebook
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YouTube
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Gender and ICTs / Internet
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ICTs and Development
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Digitalisation, Online Communication & Democracy / Democratization
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Ethnic Media, Minority Media
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LGBT & Communication / Media
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Disinformation, Misinformation, Fake News
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Conspiracy Narratives, Conspiracy Theories
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Audio Archives, Visual Archives, Media Archives
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Traffic & Transport Infrastructure
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Literacy, Literacy Campaigns, Postliteracy, Alphabetisation Policies
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Gaming, Video Games
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Television Entertainment: Audiences
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Television Serials
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Ethics & Data Protection in Research
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Gender and Media, Gender and Communication
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Gender Relations
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Decolonial & Non-Western Approaches
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History of Media & Communication
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Colonial Legacies
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History of Radio
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Local History & Memory
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Indigenous Languages
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Adaptation of Media Products to Other Countries / Cultural Contexts
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Globalisation of Media
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Transnational & Comparative Communication Research
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Journalism
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Journalism Concepts & Cultures
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News
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Local News
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Reporting & Media Representation: Specific Issues
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Religion: Media Representation
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Translations & Translating
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Buzzwords, Mottos, Slogans
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Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Relations
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Proverbs
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Media & Communication Policies
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Press Landscapes
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Digital Media Use: Migrants & Diasporas
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Migration & Refugees Reporting & (Social) Media Representation
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Music
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Deaf & Hard of Hearing People
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Colonial Photography
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Photographers
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Selfies, Self-Portrait Photographs
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Hindu Nationalism
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Public Spheres
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Public & State Radios
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Radio
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Cyberpsychology
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Media Reception
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Hinduism
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Muslim Media
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Applied Communication Research
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Comparative Approaches & Methods in Communication Research
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Society & Media, Media Sociology
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Traditional Society
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Theories of Communication & Media
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Non-Western Communication Approaches
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Audiovisual Communication
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Visual Cultures
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Visualization
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"Ethnographische Methoden haben heute in alle kultur- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen Eingang gefunden. Auch in der Medienforschung spielen sie eine zentrale Rolle. Dieses Handbuch trägt die Methodendiskussion in der Medienethnologie zusammen und entwickelt sie am Beispiel konkreter Feldfo ... more
"Contemporary anthropology is done in a world where social and digital media are playing an increasingly significant role, where anthropological and arts practices are often intertwined in museum and public intervention contexts, and where anthropologists are encouraged to engage with mass media. Be ... more
"With essays on audiences in ancient Greece, early modern Germany, Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, Zimbabwe, contemporary Egypt, Bengali India, China, Taiwan, and immigrant diaspora in Belgium, each chapter examines the ways in which audiences are embedded in discourses of power, representation, and ... more
"This pioneering study examines television’s impact on an Amazonian river town from the first broadcasts in Gurupá, in 1983, to the present." (Publisher website)
"Mottonyms are both inscriptions, based on people’s experiences, on Ghanaian commercial vehicles and ‘names’ by which drivers of such vehicles are called. Prior research on mottonyms implicitly affirms how these inscriptions are embedded in human interpersonal relationships and on careful refl ... more
"Integrating insights from cultural anthropology, folklore, digital humanities, and digital heritage studies, this work brims with case studies that provide in-depth discussions of applied projects. Web links to multimedia examples are included as well, including projects, design documents, and othe ... more
"Gubrium and Harper describe how visual and digital methodologies can contribute to a participatory, public-engaged ethnography. These methods can change the traditional relationship between academic researchers and the community, building one that is more accessible, inclusive, and visually appeali ... more
"Although Islam is not new to West Africa, new patterns of domestic economies, the promise of political liberalization, and the proliferation of new media have led to increased scrutiny of Islam in the public sphere. Dorothea E. Schulz shows how new media have created religious communities that are ... more
"Although conflict is a normal aspect of human life, mass media technologies are changing the dynamics of conflict and shaping strategies for deploying rituals. Rituals can provoke or escalate conflict; they can also mediate it. Media representations have long been instrumental in establishing, main ... more
"In ihrem Beitrag analysiert Barbara Keifenheim das Themenspektrum rezenter ethnographischer Filmfestivals und skizziert rückläufige und zunehmende Tendenzen bei der Wahl von Filmthemen. Gleichzeitig kommt sie zu dem Schluss, dass der Ethnofilm immer noch von wissenschaftstheoretischen Konzepten g ... more
"The translation of films from languages such as English, Hindi/Urdu or Chinese into Swahili is a phenomenon that has quickly grown into a successful business in Tanzania in the last couple of years. The films are mainly products of the USA, of India and China, but also of countries such as Thailand ... more
"Although practice theory has been a mainstay of social theory for nearly three decades, so far it has had very limited impact on media studies. This book draws on the work of practice theorists such as Wittgenstein, Foucault, Bourdieu, Barth and Schatzki and rethinks the study of media from the per ... more
"The Anthropology of News and Journalism is the first book to explore the role of news and journalism in contemporary culture from an anthropological perspective—as a form of cultural meaning-making in its creation, content, and dissemination. Anthropology's global, comparative perspective and eth ... more
"This book is about the many ways in which mobile phones are being appropriated by Africans and how they are transforming and are being transformed by society in Africa. A case study from Karthoum (Sudan) shows, how mobile phones are reshaping relationships in a Muslim society, where they enable wom ... more
"News stories provide an essential confirmation of our ideas about who we are, what we have to fear, and what to do about it: a marketplace of ideas, shopped by rational citizen decision makers but also a shared resource for grounding our contested narratives of identity in objective reality. News a ... more

Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies

Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2008), ix, 472 pp.
"This book offers a view of the cultural, family, and interpersonal consequences of mobile communication across the globe. Scholars analyze the effect of mobile communication on all parts of life, from the relationship between literacy and the textual features of mobile phones to the use of ringtone ... more
"This is the first book to offer a systematic overview of the themes, topics and methodologies in the emerging dialogue between anthropologists studying mass communication and media analysts turning to ethnography and cultural analysis. Drawing on dozens of semiotic, ethnographic and cross-cultural ... more
"In this groundbreaking work, Brian Larkin provides a history and ethnography of media in Nigeria, asking what media theory looks like when Nigeria rather than a European nation or the United States is taken as the starting point. Concentrating on the Muslim city of Kano in the north of Nigeria, Lar ... more
"Ängste und Hoffnungen verbinden sich mit den jungen Menschen, die in der arabischen Welt zwei Drittel der Bevölkerung ausmachen. Wie reagieren die Jugendlichen auf die Herausforderungen einer globalisierten Welt? Anhand der Internetnutzung marokkanischer Jugendlicher und den damit verbundenen Ane ... more