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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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Debating “Zimbabweanness” in Diasporic Internet Forums: Technologies of Freedom?
In: Zimbabwe’s New Diaspora: Displacement and the Cultural Politics of Survival
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2010), pp. 183-201
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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Media and Nation Building: How the Iban Became Malaysian
New York: Berghahn (2008), xiv, 231 pp.
"While much has been written about the growing influence of television and the Internet on modern warfare, little is known about the relationship between media and nation building. This book explores, for the first time, this relationship by means of a paradigmatic case of successful nation building
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Anthropology and Mass Communication: Media and Myth in the New Millennium
New York: Berghahn, reprint (2008), xii, 321 pp.
"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
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Visual Interventions: Applied Visual Anthropology
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2007), ix, 324 pp.
"Visual anthropology has proved to offer fruitful methods of research and representation to applied projects of social intervention. Through a series of case studies based on applied visual anthropological work in a range of contexts (health and medicine, tourism and heritage, social development, co
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More Than a Music Box: Radio Cultures and Communities in a Multi Media World
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2004), xiv, 315 pp.
"This collection of essays shows how in North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and the South Pacific, radio continues to provide distinctive forms of content for the individual listener, yet also enables ethnic and cultural groups to maintain their sense of identity. Ranging from radio
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"Child pornography and the sexual abuse of children through misuse of the media and the internet are complex yet closely related issues. Not only do they necessitate complex solutions, they also demand a social response from all sectors of society. This volume records the response of these various s
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