The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Costa, Elisabetta; Sinanan, Jolynna; Haynes, Nell; Lange, Patricia G.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology provides a broad overview of the widening and flourishing area of media anthropology, and outlines key themes, debates, and emerging directions.

The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology draws together the work of scholars from across the globe, with rich ethnographic studies that address a wide range of media practices and forms. 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, participation, and social change, as well as production and access to information and knowledge. This volume considers new developments, and highlights the ways in which anthropology can contribute to the study of the human condition and the social processes in which media are entangled.

This is an indispensable teaching resource for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students and an essential text for scholars working across the areas that media anthropology engages with, including anthropology, sociology, media and cultural studies, internet and communication studies, and science and technology studies.

Chapters 7, 12 and 15 (CC-BY-NC-ND) and Chapter 6 (CC-BY-ND) of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 644
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000643152
• Artikelnr.: 65739560

Autorenporträt

Elisabetta Costa is Assistant Professor in Media Studies at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Patricia G. Lange is Associate Professor and Chair of Critical Studies at California College of the Arts, USA. Nell Haynes is a faculty member in the Department of Global Studies at Saint Mary's College, USA. Jolynna Sinanan is a Lecturer in Social and Digital Anthropology at the University of Manchester, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
PART I: Histories
1. Media Anthropology and the Digital Challenge
2. Indigenous Media: Anthropological Perspectives and Historical Notes
3. A Longitudinal Study of Media in Brazil
PART II: Approaches
A. Media as Infrastructure
4. "Here, Listen to My CD-R": Music Transactions and Infrastructures in Underground Hip-Hop Touring
5. "Technology is Wonderful Until It Isn't": Community-Based Research and the Precarity of Digital Infrastructure
6. Media Migration
7. The Digitally Natural: Hypomediacy and the "Really Real" in Game Design
B. Media as Practice
8. Media Practices and Their Social Effects
9. Television is Not a Democracy: The Limits of Interactive Broadcast in Japan
10. Producing Place through Play: An Ethnography of Location-based Gaming
11. PhotoMedia as Anthropology: Towards a Speculative Research Method
12. Content-as-Practice: Studying Digital Content with a Media Practice Approach
C. Media as Materiality
13. The Materiality of the Virtual in Urban Space
14. Anthropology and Digital Media: Multivocal Materialities of Video Meetings and Deafness
15. Cloudwork: Data Centre Labour and the Maintenance of Media Infrastructure
16. Media Anthropology and Emerging Technologies: Re-working Media Presence
D. Media as Representation
17. #Everest: Visual Economies of Leisure and Labour in the Tourist Encounter
18. Postcolonial Digital Collections: Instruments, Mirrors, Agents
19. Ethnographies of the Digitally Dispossessed
PART III: Thematic Considerations
A. Relationships
20. "Friends from WeChat Groups": The Practice of Friendship via Social Media among Older People in China
21. Mediated Money and Social Relationships among Hong Kong Cross-boundary Students
22. Narratives of Digital Intimacy: Romanian Migration and Mediated Transnational Life
B. Social Inequality and Marginalisation
23. Mediating Hopes: Social Media and Crisis in Northern Italy
24. Digital Inequality and Relatedness in India after Access
25. In This Together: Black Women, Collective Screening Experiences, and Space-Making as Meaning-Making
26. Black Gamer's Refuge: Finding Community within the Magic Circle of Whiteness
C. Identities and Social Change
27. Inking Identity: Indigenous Nationalism in Bolivian Tattoo Art
28. Being Known and Becoming Famous in Kampala, Uganda
29. The Hall of Mirrors: Negotiating Gender on Chilean Social Media
D. Political Conservatism
30. Media Anthropology and the Crisis of Facts
31. Conspiracy Media Ecologies and the Case for Guerilla Anthropology
32. Researching Political Trolls as Instruments of Political Conservatism in Turkey: A Historical Framework and Methodological Reflections on a Discourse Community
33. Performing Conservatism: A Study of Emerging Political Mobilisations in Latin America using "Social Media Drama" Analysis
E. Surveillance
34. Algorithmic Violence in Everyday Life and the Role of Media Anthropology
35. Queer and Muslim? Social Surveillance and Islamic Sexual Ethics on Twitter
36. Queer Sousveillance: Publics, Politics, and Social Media in South Korea
F. Emerging Technologies and Contemporary Challenges: Data, AI and VR
37. The Algorithmic Silhouette: New Technologies and the Fashionable Body
38. Unlocking Heritage In Situ: Tourist Places and Augmented Reality in Estonia
39. Precarity, Discrimination and (In)Visibility: An Ethnography of "The Algorithm" in the YouTube Influencer Industry
40. AI Design and Everyday Logics in the Kalahari
41. Ethnography of/and Virtual Reality
Afterword
Appendix
Index