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Unruly Speech: Displacement and the Politics of Transgression
Minneapolis: Stanford University Press (2023), 252 pp.
"Unruly Speech explores how Uyghurs in China and in the diaspora transgress sociopolitical limits with "unruly" communication practices in a quest for change. Drawing on research in China, the United States, and Germany, Saskia Witteborn situates her study against the backdrop of displacement and sh
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Kuratierte Öffentlichkeit: Eine postkoloniale Ethnografie journalistischer Praxis in Jordanien
Bielefeld: transcript (2023), 265 pp.
"Öffentlichkeit ist der zentrale Begriff in Diskussionen über Demokratie und politische Partizipation. Johanna Montanari erweitert den Öffentlichkeitsbegriff postkolonial, indem sie den globalen Süden nicht als defizitären Raum "nachholender Modernisierung" beschreibt, sondern die Anstrengungen
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Theorising Media and Conflict
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2020), x, 339 pp.
"Theorising Media and Conflict is the result of a joint and interdisciplinary effort to set the theoretical and empirical agenda in theorising upon the complex relationship between media and conflict. By considering the theorisation work accomplished by the ‘Anthropology of Media’ series forerun
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Anthropological Approaches to Media in Africa
In: A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa
Roy Richard Grinker; Stephen C. Lubkemann; Christopher B. Steiner; Euclides Gonçalves (eds.)
Wiley (2019), pp. 351-374
"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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Thanks for Watching: An Anthropological Study of Video Sharing on YouTube
Louisville: University Press of Colorado (2019), 352 pp.
"The author demonstrates how core concepts from anthropology—participant-observation, reciprocity, and community—apply to sociality on YouTube. Lange’s book reconceptualizes and updates these concepts for video-sharing cultures. Lange draws on 152 interviews with YouTube participants at gather
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Media Anthropology: Meaning, Embodiment, Infrastructure, and Activism
In: Perspectives: An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology
Nina Brown; Laura Tubelle de González; Thomas McIlwraith (eds.)
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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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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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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Digital Ethnography: Anthropology, Narrative, and New Media
Austin: University of Texas Press (2013), x, 117 pp.
Media and Social Changing Since 1979: Towards a Diachronic Ethnography of Media and Actual Social Changes
EASA Media Anthropology Network (2012), 20 pp.
"In this paper I address the question of how to study media and social change ethnographically. To do so I draw from the relevant media anthropology literature, including my own research in Malaysia and Spain. I first sketch a history of media anthropology, identifying a number of key works and them
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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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Human Rights and African Airwaves: Mediating Equality on the Chichewa Radio
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2011), x, 294 pp.
"Focuses on Nkhani Zam'maboma, a popular Chichewa news bulletin broadcast on Malawi’s public radio. The program often takes authorities to task and questions much of the human rights rhetoric that comes from international organizations. Highlighting obligation and mutual dependence, the program ex
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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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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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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
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Aneignungen des Globalen: Internet-Alltag in der arabischen Welt. Eine Fallstudie in Marokko
Bielefeld: transcript (2008), 259 pp.
"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
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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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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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