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Taylor and Francis Ltd The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology 1st Edition 2022 Hardbound by Costa, Elisabetta
* Provides a wide-ranging contemporary overview of an evolving subfield of anthropology * Features cutting-edge research and explores the production and uses of new technologies * Draws on ethnographic studies carried out in six continents and covers an array of social, ethnic, and generational groups * Explores past and present collaborations between anthropology, media and cultural studies, STS, and sociology. 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