Ulla Berg on her new book, Mobile Selves
CaMP Anthropology https://nyupress.org/books/9781479803460/ Interview by Ilana Gershon If you were in a long customs line, like the one in the complex and evocative vignette with which you ope…
Author: John Postill
Activity theory
Extract from Ruijer, E., Grimmelikhuijsen, S., & Meijer, A. (2017). Open data for democracy: Developing a theoretical framework for open data use. Government Information Quarterly, 34(1), 45-52. A…
The media practices of social movements: a critical overview of the literature
Invited lecture to the Summer School on Media in Political Participation and Mobilization, Centre on Social Movement Studies, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore, Fl…
Tweeting religion in Indonesia: when political arenas go viral
Postill, J. and L.C. Epafras forthcoming 2017. Tweeting religion in Indonesia: when political arenas go viral. American Ethnologist (virtual issue) The popularity of social media in Indonesia, combi…
The diachronic ethnography of media: from social changing to actual social changes
Postill, J. 2017. The diachronic ethnography of media: from social changing to actual social changes. Moment, Journal of Cultural Studies 4(1): 19-43. PDF Abstract In this article I…
A necessary complication: towards a richer understanding of affordances
A comment on Elisabetta Costa “Social Media as Practices: an Ethnographic Critique of ‘Affordances’ and ‘Context Collapse’.” EASA Media Anthropology Network’s 60th e-Seminar, 9-23 May 2017 by Christi…
E-seminar: Social media as practices: an ethnographic critique of ‘affordances’ and ‘context collapse’
by Veronica Barassi via EASA Media Anthropology Network mailing list We will be launching our next e-seminar on Tuesday the 9th of May 2017 at 00:00 GMT. If…
Media practices and social movements reading list
A preliminary, abridged reading list on the topic of media practices and social movements in preparation for the Summer School on Media in Political Participation and Mobilization, Centre…
Resources on digital (visual) anthropology and ethnography
A helpful set of media and digital anthropology resources for teaching and learning. This is a selection of resourceson digital visual anthropology & digital ethnography, collected via the…
The hybrid media space of nerd politics
Invited paper to the ECPR joint sessions workshop on Digital Media and the Spatial Transformation of Public Contention, Nottingham, UK, 27-30 April 2017. Abstract The rise of WikiLeaks,…
Victims, volunteers and voices of the digital age
Figure 1. A widely shared campaign image calling for the release of Prita Mulyasari, one of Indonesia’s best known ‘ITE Law victims’ (korban UU ITE). Source: Hadin (2013).…
Public e-seminar on media practices and the radical imagination
By Veronica Barassi via EASA Media Anthropology Network mailing list We will be launching our next e-seminar on Tuesday 25 October 2016 at 00:00 GMT. If you are…
Political culture keywords: exploring social movements and media practices that are worlds apart
Proposal to the special issue of Media, Culture and Society on “Media, political cultures and social movements”, Veronica Barassi, Alice Mattoni and Anastasia Kavada (eds.). John Postill (RMIT)…
Notes on the 14th digital ethnography reading (Haynes 2016)
See other posts under Digital ethnography reading group Haynes, N. (2016). Social Media in Northern Chile. London: UCL Press. Summary of Chapter 3, “Virtual posting: the aesthetics of…
Spain’s current political impasse
Yesterday, 12 October 2016, I took part in a seminar titled “Resolving Spain’s political deadlock” held at my home institution, RMIT University, in Melbourne. I presented alongside Marta…
Creating and debating Harari identity over the internet
This is the tenth (10th) set of notes under the theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen (eds.)…
Notes on the 13th digital ethnography reading (Takhteyev 2012)
Takhteyev, Y. (2012). Coding Places: Software practice in a South American city. MIT Press. Notes by Tresa LeClerc Non/fiction Lab and Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC), RMIT University, Melb…
Islam, devotional genres and electronic mediation in Mauritius
Here comes the ninth (9th) set of notes under the theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen (eds.)…
Notes on the 12th digital ethnography reading (Lane 2016)
Lane, J. (2016). The Digital Street: An Ethnographic Study of Networked Street Life in Harlem. American Behavioral Scientist, 60(1), 43-58. doi: 10.1177/0002764215601711 Notes by Jolynna Sinanan Digit…
#Review: On the State. Lectures at the Collège de France, 1989-1992.
As stated on its back cover, in this book the influential French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) investigates the state’s ‘extraordinary power of producing a socially ordered world without…
A planet afflicted by a high fever
Essential reading on our current global predicament by the anthropologist Thomas H. Eriksen. The Pluto Press Blog – Independent, radical publishing The world is ‘overheated’. Too full and…
Benjamin Peters’ (2016) fascinating essay on the keyword ‘digital’
A physical copy of the brand new book Digital Keywords (2016) has just arrived through the post. On first inspection, it looks fantastic, and I’ve got the feeling…
Review of Bourdieu’s (2014) On the State
Review of Bourdieu, P. (2014). On the State: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1989-1992. P. Champagne, R. Lenoir, F. Poupeau, & M. C. Rivière (Eds.). London: Polity.…
On book reviews and back covers
I spend ages reading and summarising Bourdieu’s mammoth On the State (2014 [2012]) for a journal review – I was even congratulated by a stranger on a Melbourne…