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Media Anthropology: Meaning, Embodiment, Infrastructure, and Activism
In: Perspectives: An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology
Arlington, Va.: American Anthropological Association (2017), pp. 1-17
"This chapter introduces some of the theories, insights, and methodologies of media anthropology. At the heart of media anthropology is the assertion that media practices are not universal. Whether we are discussing how television is viewed, how public relations coordinators negotiate corporate hier
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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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Photography in Latin America: Images and Identities Across Time and Space
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2016), 242 pp.
"Historical photographs taken in Latin America have now become key sites for memory politics, ethnographic imagination, and the negotiation of identity. This volume opens up a set of questions relating to the contemporaneous agency of images as well as their current appropriation via new technologie
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Media, Anthropology and Public Engagement
New York: Berghahn (2015), vi, 228 pp.
"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
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Handbuch der Medienethnographie
Berlin: Reimer (2015), lii, 442 pp.
"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
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Meanings of Audiences: Comparative Discourses
London; New York: Routledge (2014), xi, 206 pp.
"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
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"Cry Your Own Cry": On Popular Visual Media of Life Experiences in Ghanaian Mottonyms
EASA Media Anthropology Network (2013), 23 pp.
"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
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Participatory Visual and Digital Methods
London, New York: Routledge (2013), 227 pp.
"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
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Digital Ethnography: Anthropology, Narrative, and New Media
Austin: University of Texas Press (2013), x, 117 pp.
"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
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Amazon Town TV: An Audience Ethnography in Gurupá, Brazil
Austin: University of Texas Press (2013), xi, 210 pp.
"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)
Muslims and New Media in West Africa: Pathways to God
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2012), xviii, 306 pp.
"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
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Kritische Anmerkungen zum vorherrschenden Themenspektrum ethnographischer Filme
Mainz: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien (2011), 13 pp.
"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
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Ritual, Media, and Conflict
Oxford et al.: Oxford University Press (2011), xvi, 299 pp.
"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
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Media Parenting and the Construction of Media Identities in Northern Nigerian Muslim Hausa Video Films
In Need of Connection: Reflections on Youth and the Translation of Film in Tanzania
Stichproben: Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien, issue 18 (2010), pp. 137-159
"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
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The Anthropology of News & Journalism: Global Perspectives
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2010), viii, 328 pp.
"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
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Theorising Media and Practice
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2010), xii, 351 pp.
"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
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Alarming Reports: Communicating Conflict in the Daily News
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2009), vii, 208 pp.
"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
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Mobile Phones: The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa
Bamenda (CM); Leiden: Langaa; African Studies Centre (2009), vii, 173 pp.
"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
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Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria
Durham: Duke University Press (2008), xi, 314 pp.
"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
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