media anthropology

Interview at Media Anthro in Turkey blog (@mediaanthrointr)

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My colleagues and fellow anthropologists Suncem and Ozan started a site that will focus on media anthropology developments in Turkey. It is based on a workshop that took place a few years ago and they are planning to boost the site content soon. An interview with me and more about the site can be found … Read more

List of Media Anthropology people in Academia.edu

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http://www.academia.edu/People/Anthropology_of_Media   http://www.academia.edu/People/Media_Anthropology

John Postill on MEDIA AND SOCIAL CHANGING SINCE 1979

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Media and social changing since 1979: a diachronic ethnography of media and actual social changes

“Remembering Egypt’s Martyrs”. Roundup continues.

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Egypt: Remembering Egypt’s Martyrs from Global Voices Online by Amira Al Hussaini Written by Amira Al Hussaini This post is part of our special coverage of Egypt Protests 2011. Tribute is pouring from all around the world for those who have lost their lives in protests held across Egypt to call for an end of … Read more

E-workshop on digital and media anthropology starts at EASA Media Anthropology network.

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E-workshop on digital and media anthropology starts now!! from media/anthropology by John Postill ** via Media Anthropology Network mailing list ** Dear All Welcome to our e-workshop on digital and media anthropology! As I said in a previous announcement, we thought it would be interesting to continue on this mailing list the face-to-face conversations we … Read more

New book: News As Culture: Journalistic Practices and the Remaking of Indian Leadership Tradition

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News As Culture: Journalistic Practices and the Remaking of Indian Leadership Tradition (Anthropology of the Media) is a new book from Prof. Ursual Rao whom I met through EASA Media Anthropology Network. I haven’t read the book but it is definitely in my list. All reviews point to sound ethnography and I already know she … Read more

Media Anthropology Network re-launched

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New e-seminar at the Media Antropology Network continues…

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Media #anthro e-seminar starting now: ?Migrant workers? use of ICTs for interpersonal communication?

from media/anthropology by John Postill

** via EASA Media Anthropology Network list **

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Dear All

Welcome to another EASA Media Anthropology Network e-seminar! Over the next two weeks we?ll be discussing through this mailing list a working paper by Minu Thomas and Sun Sun Lim entitled ?Migrant workers? use of ICTs for interpersonal communication ? The experience of female domestic workers in Singapore.? You will find the abstract below and can download the full paper here: http://www.media-anthropology.net/thomas_lim_migrant_workers_ICT.pdf

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A video: Human Terrain System & War in Iraq

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Human Terrain System & War in Iraq



Anthropologists Speak Out Against Human Terrain Systems & War on Terror

Made by Harjant Gill
Dept of Anthroppology
American University

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Anthro roundup- AAA Issues Report on Human Terrain Teams and more

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AAA meeting round-up: What did all those anthropologists talk about? from antropologi.info  by Lorenz Three weeks ago, anthropologists from all over the world met in Philadelphia at the annual meerting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). What did all those anthropologists talk about during the largest anthropology meeting in the world? This is no easy … Read more

New book: The Anthropology of News and Journalism: Global Perspectives

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Such a nice volume on the The Anthropology of News and Journalism has recently been released. Contributors are great scholars from the area of media anthropology. I could not get it yet, but it is in my immediate reading list ,of course…

"The geopolitical anthropology of media

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John Postill asks “What would a geopolitical anthropology of media entail? Lorenz interviews “anthropology song girl” and more from the world of anthropology…

The geopolitical anthropology of media

by John Postill

What would a geopolitical anthropology of media entail? In other words, how would one go about studying anthropologically (and not just ethnographically) the relationship between power, culture and geography in the emergence of contemporary media ecologies?

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