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• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Media Anthropologies
• Histories
• Approaches
• Media as Infrastructure
• Media as Practice
• Media as Materiality
• Media as Representation
• Thematic Considerations
• Relationships
• Social Inequality and Marginalization
• Identities and Social Change
• Political Conservatism
• Surveillance
• Emerging Technologies
• References
• Part I Histories
• 1 Media Anthropology and the Digital Challenge
• Functionalist Foundations
• National Culture
• Development Communications
• Media as Symbolic Systems
• The Emergence of Media Anthropology
• The Anthropology of News and Journalism
• Indigenous and Activist Media
• Digital Challenges
• Challenge #1: What’s New About Digital Media?
• Challenge #2: Digital Divisions
• Challenge #3: Post-Radial Semiotics
• Challenge #4: Imagining Communities
• Challenge #5: Play, Game and Design
• Conclusion
• References
• 2 Indigenous Media: Anthropological Perspectives and Historical Notes
• Introduction
• Indigenous Media in an Anthropology of Media
• Media as Cultural Activism?
• Media Anthropologists as Activists
• Indigeneity and the Indigenizing of Media Technologies
• Sociopolitical Change
• Internet for Remote First Nation Communities in Canada
• Conclusion
• References
• 3 A Longitudinal Study of Media in Brazil
• Prime-Time Society (PTS)
• The Stage Model
• Liberal Attitudes
• TV’s Contraceptive Effect
• The Research Continues: Amazon Town TV (ATTV)
• Mẽbêngôkre-Kayapó TV
• The Next Round
• Final Remarks
• Notes
• References
• Part II Approaches
• A Media as Infrastructure
• 4 “Here, Listen to My CD-R”: Music Transactions and Infrastructures in Underground Hip-Hop Touring
• Infrastructures of Industry, Touring, and Merchandise Sales
• Ethnographies of Underground Hip Hop
• Unpacking the CD-R
• CD-R Exchanges in Underground Hip Hop
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• 5 “Technology is Wonderful Until It Isn’t”: Community-Based Research and the Precarity of Digital Infrastructure
• Background
• “Not Quite Plumb”: Squaring Fundamental Infrastructures and Foundational Knowledge
• Imaging Discussion: Exploring Possibilities and the Promise of Technology
• Zoom Matters: Technology Literacy and Community Dialogues During a Pandemic
• Lessons Learned
• References
• 6 Media Migration
• Ethnographic Context
• Media Migration Histories
• Media Migration Dynamics and Migration Theory
• Motivations for Leaving
• Migrating to Self-Actualize
• Relation to Diaspora
• Migratory Return
• A Collective Conversation About Media Migration
• Types of Media Migration
• Departures and Arrivals
• Conclusion
• References
• 7 The Digitally Natural: Hypomediacy and the “Really Real” in Game Design
• Games and Remediation
• Ritual and the Real
• From Explicit to Implicit Participation
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• References
• B Media as Practice
• 8 Media Practices and Their Social Effects
• Practices, Worlds, Effects
• Mediatising Effects
• Worlding Effects
• Who Needs Effects?
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• 9 Television is Not a Democracy: The Limits of Interactive Broadcast in Japan
• The Twenty-First Century Audience
• Television is Not a Democracy
• Is Nico Nico Douga the Enemy?
• The Future of Television, the Status of Images
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• 10 Producing Place through Play: An Ethnography of Location-based Gaming
• Play as a Media Practice
• Playable Locative Media
• Play as a Practice of Place-making
• Social Place-making with Locative Media
• Towards Locative Gaming Platforms: Pokémon Go
• Conclusion: Play as a Place-making Practice
• References
• 11 PhotoMedia as Anthropology: Towards a Speculative Research Method
• Introduction
• Visual Anthropology as a Practice
• Photography as an Object: Observing
• Photograph(ing) as a Method: Thinking
• Photography as an Intervention: Imagining
• Towards a Future-oriented Media Anthropology
• Imaginative Speculation
• Techno-reflexivity
• Conclusion
• Note
• References
• 12 Content-as-Practice: Studying Digital Content with a Media Practice Approach
• Introduction
• Understanding Digital Content-as-Practice
• Human Actors, Practical Sense, and Technological Affordances
• From Social Media Algorithms to Routinised Practices
• Content-as-Practice and the Holocaust Memorial
• Methodological Consequences
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• C Media as Materiality
• 13 The Materiality of the Virtual in Urban Space
• Media Materiality and Urban Placemaking
• Mobile Media in Café Culture
• Public Media Mutuality
• Digital Materiality and Organizing in Pandemic Brooklyn
• The Virtual Matter of Urban Space
• References
• 14 Anthropology and Digital Media: Multivocal Materialities of Video Meetings and Deafness
• Digital Media Anthropology
• A Video Meeting at SVT Teckenspråk
• Being d/Deaf at SVT Teckenspråk
• “Artifacts”
• Experiences
• Practices
• Processes
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• 15 Cloudwork: Data Centre Labour and the Maintenance of Media Infrastructure
• The Transcendental Media Imaginary
• The People in the Cloud
• Cloud Pressure
• Caring for Data
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• 16 Media Anthropology and Emerging Technologies: Re-working Media Presence
• Shifting Modes of Media and Technological Presence
• Interventional Ethnography
• Content, Communication, and Presence
• Bringing the Experience of Smart Home Technologies to Life
• Towards an Applied Media Anthropology
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgements
• References
• D Media as Representation
• 17 #Everest: Visual Economies of Leisure and Labour in the Tourist Encounter
• Visibility and Everest in Global Visual Cultures
• Digital Communication as Building and Disrupting Relationships in the Everest Tourism Industry
• Conclusion: the Aesthetics of Everest for Mediating Aspirations
• References
• 18 Postcolonial Digital Collections: Instruments, Mirrors, Agents
• Situating the Postcolonial in Museums
• Into the Digital
• Three Postcolonial Theories of (Digital) Representation
• The Digital as Instrument
• The Digital as Mirror or Mimesis
• The Digital as Agent
• Postcolonial Digital Projects in Theory and Practice
• New Forms of Digital Collecting
• Instrumentalizing the Database
• Digital Objects and Mimetic Returns
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• References
• 19 Ethnographies of the Digitally Dispossessed
• Media Anthropology and the Sources of Power/Knowledge
• Entering via Flagged Erasures
• Following Sources and Their Characterisation
• Analysing the Networks That Traverse Articles
• New Centres of Power/Knowledge
• Notes
• References
• Part III Thematic Considerations
• A Relationships
• 20 “Friends from WeChat groups”: The Practice of Friendship via Social Media among Older People in China
• Introduction
• Mediated Friendship in the Chinese Context
• Daily Use of WeChat and WeChat Groups among Older People in Shanghai
• Different Types of WeChat Groups
• Friend-making and Guanxi Practice in WeChat Groups
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgement
• Notes
• References
• 21 Mediated Money and Social Relationships among Hong Kong Cross-Boundary Students
• Money as Media
• Methods and Social Context
• Digital Money Differentials: Payment and Place
• Mediating Family Relations: Parental Nurturance and Control of Offspring
• Consumptive Relations: “Simple” and “Complex” Payment Repertoires
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgements
• Notes
• References
• 22 Narratives of Digital Intimacy: Romanian Migration and Mediated Transnational Life
• Introduction
• Digital Intimacies as Discursive Formations
• Case Background and Research Methodology: Studying Romanian Transnational Cultural Formations
• Mothers’ Diasporic Efforts Toward Cultural Reproduction
• How Cultures of Migration Shape Mediated Transnational Relationships
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• B Social Inequality and Marginalisation
• 23 Mediating Hopes: Social Media and Crisis in Northern Italy
• Introduction
• Crisis in Northern Italy
• Online branding and local forms of socialities
• Giulia: Social Media and the Practice of Hoping
• Laura and Luca: Self-Branding and the Crafting of Meaningful Relationships
• Social Media and the Mediation of Hope
• References
• 24 Digital Inequality and Relatedness in India after Access
• Inequalities after Access
• Understanding Gradations of Use
• The Diversity of Digital Practices after Access
• Refashioning of Social Hierarchies
• Digital Recreation as Social Change
• Conclusions
• Notes
• References
• 25 In This Together: Black Women, Collective Screening Experiences, and Space-Making as Meaning-Making
• Introduction
• Distance and Distancing in Black Women’s U.S. Media Histories
• A Night Out: Alternatives of Black Media Screening and Engagement
• Co-Production of Meaning: Why Screening Events are Important Sites of Inquiry
• Visceral Validation: Reclaiming Space, Body, and Affect
• Conclusion: Black Un/Imagining in Collective Screening Spaces
• References
• 26 Black Gamer’s Refuge: Finding Community within the Magic Circle of Whiteness
• Introduction
• The Dissolution of Black People Discord
• Black Girl Gamers, the Black Spoil Sport, and Possibilities within the Magic Circle of Whiteness
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• C Identities and Social Change
• 27 Inking Identity: Indigenous Nationalism in Bolivian Tattoo Art
• Introduction
• Tattoo, Identity, and Place
• The Politics of Indigeneity
• Tattoos with Indigenous Symbolism
• From Abstraction to Appropriation?
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• 28 Being Known and Becoming Famous in Kampala, Uganda
• Introduction
• From Taboo to Tabloid: Sex and Development in Uganda’s Public Sphere
• The Producers
• The Sensitization Model
• Modernity claims, morality claims
• Cross-Generational Sex Starts with You!
• Notes
• References
• 29 The Hall of Mirrors: Negotiating Gender on Chilean Social Media
• Identity Construction on Social Media
• Alexa
• Normative Gender, Radical Potential
• Damned if you do …
• Damned if you don’t …
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• D Political Conservatism
• 30 Media Anthropology and the Crisis of Facts
• Introduction
• “One to Eight”: The Dominance of Media-Driven Political Right
• A Concern with Civility and Incivility
• Talk About Racism As Lack of Civility
• Ali Does Know How to Use the Toilet
• Incivility of Toilet Habits
• Freedom to Eroticize Torture
• The “Nation in Danger” and the Indifference to Facts
• Conclusion
• Note
• References
• 31 Conspiracy Media Ecologies and the Case for Guerilla Anthropology
• America’s Stonehenge Vandalized
• Mediated conspirituality
• The Case for Guerrilla Archaeology
• Aftermath
• Notes
• References
• 32 Researching Political Trolls as Instruments of Political Conservatism in Turkey: A Historical Framework and Methodological Reflections on a Discourse Community
• Introduction
• Why Study Political Trolls?
• In the Field: Different Historical Moments, Multiple Methods
• Trolling as a Discourse Community in the Service of Political Conservatism
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• 33 Performing Conservativism: A Study of Emerging Political Mobilisations in Latin America using “Social Media Drama” Analysis
• Introduction
• Morally Centred Social Movements: The State of Affairs
• A “Social Media Drama” Analysis for Conservative Mobilisation
• Performing Conservatism in Latin America
• Performing Conservatism and Co-Creation in Lima
• Performing Conservatism in Bogota’s Autonomous Media
• Concluding Remarks
• References
• E Surveillance
• 34 Algorithmic violence in everyday life and the role of media anthropology
• Introduction
• Tech-Surveillance and the Question about Profiling
• ‘There is so much more to me as a person’: Everyday Negotiations with Algorithmic Profiling, Human Reductionism, and Inequality
• Algorithmic Violence, Bureaucracy, and the Role of Anthropology
• Conclusion
• References
• 35 Queer and Muslim?: Social Surveillance and Islamic Sexual Ethics on Twitter
• Enjoining the Right and Forbidding the Wrong as Social Surveillance
• “LGBT is Disgusting”/“You Are Married to Your Cousin”: Islamic Sexual Ethics on Twitter
• Conclusions: Toward a Theory of Contingent Privacy Online
• References
• 36 Queer Sousveillance: Publics, Politics, and Social Media in South Korea
• Surveillance Studies and Social Media
• Enumeration and Practices of Queer Sousveillance
• Conclusion
• References
• F Emerging Technologies and Contemporary Challenges: Data, AI and VR
• 37 The algorithmic silhouette: New Technologies and the Fashionable Body
• Closet Ethnography: Dress, Clothing, and Identity in the Caribbean
• Fashioning Silhouettes
• Visibility and Misrecognition
• Algorithmic Silhouettes in Context
• Conclusion
• References
• 38 Unlocking heritage in situ: Tourist Places and Augmented Reality in Estonia
• Making Apps for Tourist Sites
• From touristic flânerie to augmented heritage
• Embodying Imaginings in Tourist Places
• Conclusion
• References
• 39 Precarity, discrimination and (in)visibility: An Ethnography of “The Algorithm” in the YouTube Influencer Industry
• Context: The Influencer Industry and Rise of Professional Content Creators
• Critical/Ethnographic Approaches to Algorithms in Cultural Work
• Algorithmic Hearsay and Folk Theories
• Pleasing The Algorithm Gods
• Algorithmic Detectives and Conspiracy Theorists
• Influencer Practices: Gaming The Algorithm
• Feeding the Hungry Algorithm
• Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Algorithmic Optimisation Versus Authenticity
• Influencer Experiences: Feeling the Algorithm
• The Fear of Algorithmically Induced Invisibility
• Algorithmic Discrimination: The Marginalisation of Creators on YouTube
• Conclusions
• References
• 40 AI Design and Everyday Logics in the Kalahari
• Ethnographies of AI
• Explainable Algorithms
• Data and the Global Souths
• Ethnography, HCI and Africa
• Localising Technology Production
• Translating Inhabitant Knowledge
• Explainable AI in the Kalahari
• Engaging with Ju|’hoansi People
• At the Intersection of AI, Programming Languages, Probability Theory and Local Predictive Practices
• Predictive Logics: Stories and Spinner Games
• Conditional Probability: Trees with Holes, Water and Snakes
• Numbers are Stories
• Temporal Registers
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgements
• Notes
• References
• 41 Ethnography of/and Virtual Reality
• Defining Immersion
• Producing and Consuming Immersion
• Critiquing Immersion
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• Afterword
• Achievements
• Comparisons
• Future Dialogues
• Conclusion
• References
• Appendix
• Index