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Book review by J. Postill of Eickelman and Anderson, eds., New Media and the...

      Postill, J. (forthcoming) Review of Dale F. Eickelman and Jon W. Anderson, eds., New Media and the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere, 2nd ed. (Indiana University Press, 2003).   This...

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Notes from ICA conference 25 May

By Terry Flew Reassessing NAFTA and the Cultural Industries Sunday 25 May 2008 [...]     Annabelle Sreberny • Danger of repetition of 1970s debates which were focused on film and television, but now...

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Grassroots leadership and media technologies: bibliographic references

I put this query to the Media Anthropology Network mailing list a few days ago: I’m writing about local leadership and digital technologies in a suburb of Kuala Lumpur. Can anyone suggest existing...

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Domestic media practices and immigrants in Sweden

Last night I posted the following to the EASA Media Anthropology Network e-seminar on a working paper by Ulrika Sjöberg and Ingegerd Rydin (Halmstad University, Sweden) entitled “Discourses on media...

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New book: Virtualpolitik

An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes Elizabeth Losh May 2009, MIT 7 x 9, 416 pp., 71 illus. $29.95/£19.95 (CLOTH) Today...

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Towards a diachronic ethnography of media and actual social changes

View this document on Scribd Update 21 Sep 2013 http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n18/david-runciman/counter-counter-revolution [I]t was the dénouement of the First World War that changed everything: a messy,...

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(Non)violence and the anti-corporate globalisation movements

Brief notes on Juris, J.S. 2008. Networking Futures: the Movements against Corporate Globalization. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. p. 91 ‘Militant anticapitalists… [adopt] more aggressive...

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The diffusion of protests (1)

Excerpts from Koopmans, Ruud (2004) ‘Protest in time and space: the evolution of waves of contention’, in David A. Snow, Sarah A. Soule and Hanspeter Kriesi (eds), The Blackwell Companion to Social...

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The diffusion of protests (2)

Excerpts from the paper “Diffusion Models of Cycles of Protest as a Theory of Social Movements” n.d. by Pamela E. Oliver (University of Wisconsin) and Daniel J. Myers (University of Notre Dame),...

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Mobile phones and actual changes in the global South

Presentation notes from Postill, J. 2013. Mobile phones and actual changes (big and small) in the global South: a preliminary exploration. Keynote address to the Mobile Telephony in the Developing...

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What does anthropology have to say about social media and activism?

This is an early draft of a short invited piece for Anthropology Unbound: A Field Guide to the 21st Century, 3rd ed. E. Paul Durrenberger and Suzan Erem. Oxford University Press. The remit was to write...

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CFA: Theorising Media and Conflict workshop, Vienna, 23-24 Oct 2015

A Media Anthropology Network event European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology University of Vienna, Austria 23-24 October 2015 ** Financial...

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Notes on the workshop “Theorising Media and Conflict”

Figure 1. Thinking aloud about the volume Theorising Media and Conflict. Photo courtesy of Philipp Budka. Media Anthropology Network European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Department of...

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The mediated modernities of Tuareg smith women

Occasionally I will be posting on this blog some notes under the broad theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen (eds.) forthcoming, Theorising...

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Women on the market: Internet romance in Cameroon

I am currently posting on this blog some notes under the broad theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen (eds.) forthcoming, Theorising Media and...

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CFA: Theorising Media and Conflict

Call for chapter abstracts Theorising Media and Conflict John Postill (RMIT) Philipp Budka (Vienna) Birgit Bräuchler (Monash), eds. In a recent survey of the interdisciplinary literature on media and...

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33. Iñigo Errejón: Podemos as an emergent cultural practice

Photo credit: ca.wikipedia.org This is the thirty-third post in the freedom technologists series I have pasted below some highlights (in Spanish) of an excellent interview with Podemos’ ‘no. 2’, Iñigo...

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Rumours and the reinvention of the Internet in Ghana

See below a fifth (5th) set of notes under the broad theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen (eds.) forthcoming, Digital Media and Cultural...

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Power, culture and the state press in Ghana

Here is a sixth (6th) set of notes under the broad theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen (eds.) forthcoming, Digital Media and Cultural Change....

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Islam, broadcast media, and the remaking of religious experience in Mali

The Malian preacher Cherif Haidara. Photo credit: haraniani dembele See below a seventh (7th) set of notes under the theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and...

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