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...
View ArticleNotes 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...
View ArticleGrassroots 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...
View ArticleDomestic 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleTowards 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,...
View Article(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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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),...
View ArticleMobile 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleCFA: 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...
View ArticleNotes 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleWomen 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...
View ArticleCFA: 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...
View Article33. 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...
View ArticleRumours 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...
View ArticlePower, 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....
View ArticleIslam, 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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