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Don Slater keynote: New media, development and globalization
EASA Media Anthropology Network 2nd Workshop, “Media Practices and Cultural Producers”. Barcelona, 6-7 November 2008 via Mediacciones website Through terms like new economy, information society and...
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What is Frontline SMS?
from FrontlineSMS site A lack of communication can be a major barrier for grassroots non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working in developing countries. Frontline SMS is the first text...
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Media, practice and social change
A few thoughts: 1. Existing anthropological studies of media-related practices around the globe can shed light on processes of social change so long as we are quite precise about not only local context...
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Media and modernisation (Peterson 2003)
Peterson, M.A. 2003. Anthropology and mass communication. Media and myth in the new millennium. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. Singer 35 By mid-1960s critiques of community studies commonplace...
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Law, social change and semi-autonomous social fields
Falk Moore, Sally (1978) Law and social change: the semi-autonomous social field as an appropriate subject of study. In Law as Process: An Anthropological Approach. London: Routledge. Social fields...
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New media and social change
How do different global fields of practice (e.g. journalism, development, activism) appropriate and transform new media? How do internet and mobile media help to transform these fields? What kind of...
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New ethnography of Pentecostal TV drama in Kinshasa
via Berghahn Books THE MAKING OF THE PENTECOSTAL MELODRAMA Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa Katrien Pype 348 pages, 28 ills, bibliog., index ISBN 978-0-85745-494-2 Hb $95.00/£60.00 Published...
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The challenge of the present continuous
By Oscar Hemer, Glocal Times No 17/18 (2012) When, in the spring of 2010, we started the planning of the present special issue, in collaboration with the academic journal Nordicom Review, we did not...
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Book review: Drama for development: cultural translation and social change
Skuse, Andrew, Marie Gillespie & Gerry Power (eds). Drama for development: cultural translation and social change. xxiii, 324 pp., tables, bibliogrs. New Delhi: Sage Publications India, 2011....
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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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17. Digital rights in Southeast Asia and beyond: a review of RightsCon 2015
Update 1 April 2015: See also PDF version. Last week I was in Manila to attend the 4th meeting of the RightsCon series, held on 24-25 March 2015. This series of conferences seeks ‘to advance solutions...
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