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The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology
Top 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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Kamera-Ethnographie: Ethnographische Forschung im Modus des Zeigens. Programmatik und Praxis
Bielefeld: transcript (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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Children and Screen Media in Changing Arab Contexts: An Ethnographic Perspective
Cham: Palgrave Pivot (2019), xi, 147 pp.
"Using a phenomenological and multi-sited ethnographic approach, this book focuses on children's uses of digital media in three sites - London, Casablanca and Beirut - and situates the study of Arab children and screen media within a wider frame, making connections between local, regional and global
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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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Photography in Latin America: Images and Identities Across Time and Space
Bielefeld: transcript (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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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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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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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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Media Parenting and the Construction of Media Identities in Northern Nigerian Muslim Hausa Video Films
In: Media and Identity in Africa
Kimani Njogu; John Middleton (eds.)
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2010), pp. 171-184
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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Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2009), xiv, 278 pp.
"This book examines the incorporation of newly accessible mass media into practices of religious mediation in a variety of settings including the Pentecostal Church and Islamic movements, as well as the use of religious forms and image in the sphere of radio and cinema." (Publisher description)
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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Women and Media: Changing Roles, Struggle and Impact
New Delhi: Regal Publications (2007), xi, 289 pp.
Globalisierung der Medienkommunikation: Eine Einführung in Medien im globalen Kontext
Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (2005), 350 pp.
"Globalisierung ist in aller Munde. Zunehmend wird dabei deutlich, dass Globalisierung in weiten Teilen auch eine Globalisierung der Medien und durch die Medien bedeutet. Das wirft viele Fragen auf: Welche Herausforderung stellt die Globalisierung für Medienpolitik, Medienökonomie und Medienwirtsc
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‘Arajo Efemu’ Local FM Radio and the Socio-Technical System of Communications in Koutiala, Mali
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 3, issue 1 (2005), pp. 7-20
"Only a handful of the estimated 150 FM radio stations in Mali could properly be called ‘community’ stations, with administrative structures to ensure representative listener participation in decision-making. However, due to regulations and scarce funding sources, virtually all stations depend o
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Researching Audiences
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London: Hodder Arnold (2003), x, 422 pp.
"How do young audiences play with the cultural spectacle offered by reality shows like Big Brother? How does interactive media influence learning the process in educational and everyday settings? How can corporate communicators address their ethical commitment more effectively to the general public?
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Global Media Studies: Ethnographic Perspectives
New York: Routledge (2003), xiii, 313 pp.
"Global Media Studies explores the theoretical and methodological threats that are defining global media studies as a discipline. Emphasizing the connection of globalization to local culture, this collection considers the diversity of modes of reception, reception contexts, uses of media content, an
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Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain
Berkeley: University of California Press (2002), xvi, 413 pp.
