Media Anthropology for the Digital Age by Pertierra, Anna Cristina -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Table of Contents Title page Copyright page Acknowledgements Introduction

Four basic premises of anthropology Chapter outline Note

1: Worlds Collide

The Birth of Anthropology and the Search for the Exotic Early Voices: Ethnographies of Television in Indigenous Australia and Brazil The Absence of Mass Media from Anthropological Literature Anthropology's Turn to Postmodernity Notes

2: Anthropologists Embrace the Media in Earnest

3: The Alliance of Cultural and Media Studies with Ethnography

4: Ethnography in the Digital Age

The first generation of internet studies Studies of everyday life online: ethnographies of the internet Researching the Internet in Trinidad Communities and relationships More than digital: from anthropology of the internet to the study of a digitally enabled world The Politics of Coding and Hacking Doing ethnography online: challenges and opportunities Participant Observation in Second Life Notes

5: Digital Intimacies

Mobile phones: a truly global technology Social mobility or ongoing conformity: the old rules still apply Technologies in the Face of Disasters Working-Class Mobile Phone Cultures in China Everyday relations and local digital environments Breaking Up on Social Media Notes

6: Anthropologists Making Media

Ethnographic film and visual anthropology Anthropology on TV: ethnography or entertainment? Teaching anthropology in the digital age Note

7: Divided by a Common Language

Doing ethnography in a digital world The multiple meanings of ethnography Pushing back against the over-use of ethnography: a view from anthropology Note

Conclusion References Index End User License Agreement