Notes on the 10th digital ethnography reading (Wacquant 2004)
Wacquant, L. J. D. (2004). Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Notes by Edgar Gomez Digital Ethnography Research Centre…
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Review of The Manchester School: Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology (Evens & Handelman 2006)
The Manchester School: Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology. T.M.S. Evens & Don Handelman (eds). 2006. Oxford/New York: Berghahn. x + 334 pp. JOHN POSTILL Ethnos: Journal of…
Abyssinian fundamentalism and cyberwar in Eritrea
Here is the eighth (8th) set of notes under the theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen (eds.)…
Islam, broadcast media, and the remaking of religious experience in Mali
See below a seventh (7th) set of notes under the theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen (eds.)…
Power, culture and the state press in Ghana
Here is a sixth (6th) set of notes under the broad theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen…
Rumours and the reinvention of the Internet in Ghana
See below a fifth (5th) set of notes under the broad theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen…
Moral crises: magical and secular solutions (Gluckman 1964)
via HAU journal This work is licensed under the Creative Commons | © Max Gluckman. ISSN 2049-1115 (Online). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14318/hau4.2.025 REPRINT Moral crises Magical and secular solution…
The reception and consumption of telenovelas in Senegal
This is a fourth set of notes under the broad theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen (eds.)…
Writing from research online
Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) RMIT University, Melbourne PhD Community Writing Group 2 25 May 2016 Convener: Jolynna Sinanan This month, John Postill will lead the writing group…
35. Los tecnólogos de la libertad y el futuro de la justicia global
Dr John Postill Estado del poder 2016 ver PDF Original English version: Postill, J. 2016. Freedom technologists and the future of global justice. In State of Power 2016.…
Notes on the 9th digital ethnography reading (Boellstorff et al 2012)
By Allister Hill PhD student Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) RMIT University, Melbourne See other posts under Digital ethnography reading group On Wednesday 13 April 2016, we spent…
Notes on the 8th digital ethnography reading (O’Dell & Willim 2013)
By Nicholas Hansen MA student Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) RMIT University, Melbourne See other posts under Digital ethnography reading group Wednesday 09 March (12-1:30 @ B009-04-032)…
En las plazas se sueña en pie
Semi-automatic translation from the original Spanish: Dreaming while standing in the squares. In France today it is not 12 April but 43 March. And in March they will…
34. In search of psychedelia: for a technopolitics beyond institutions
This is the thirty-fourth post in the freedom technologists series This past March 2016 I spent three weeks in Lima (Peru), as well as a few days in…
33. Iñigo Errejón: Podemos as an emergent cultural practice
Photo credit: ca.wikipedia.org This is the thirty-third post in the freedom technologists series I have pasted below some highlights (in Spanish) of an excellent interview with Podemos’ ‘…
32. Review of Firebrand Waves of Digital Activism 1994–2014 (Karatzogianni 2015)
This is the thirty-second post in the freedom technologists series Postill, J. in press 2016. Review of Karatzogianni, A. (2015) Firebrand Waves of Digital Activism 1994–2014. Palgrave Macmillan…
31. Hacktivism and open data in Latin America
This is the thirty-first post in the freedom technologists series I am spending three busy weeks in Lima (Peru) as well as a few days in Quito (Ecuador)…
30. Review of From Counterculture to Cyberculture (Turner 2006)
Book review by Paul Duguid, Jan 3, 2007 From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism by Fred Turner Chicago: University…
Free e-seminar: ‘It’s like a family!’ The unity and community of journalists
‘It’s like a family!’ The unity and community of journalists: On connections between newsrooms and how journalists share a community of practice Working Paper to the EASA Media…
Notes on the 7th digital ethnography reading (Garcia et al 2009)
By Tresa Le Clerc PhD candidate Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) RMIT University, Melbourne See other posts under digital ethnography reading group The first Digital Ethnography Reading Sess…
29. Freedom technologists bibliography, M-Z
Freedom Technologists: Digital Activism and Political Change in the 21st Century (working title), Chapter 2, Freedom Technologists ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, PART 2 This is the twenty-ninth post in th…
Why is this reading so hard?
by Pat Thomson via The Impact Blog patter It’s a fact of scholarly life that some of the reading we do is just plain difficult. Sometimes this is…
28. Trans-Pacific Partnership a threat to internet freedom
via Liberationtech @Liberationtech 31m31 minutes ago #TPP Deal Signed in #NewZealand is a Threat to Your Internet Freedom The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal was signed by New Zealand…
CFA: Theorising Media and Conflict
John Postill (RMIT) Philipp Budka (Vienna) Birgit Bräuchler (Monash), eds. In a recent survey of the interdisciplinary literature on media and conflict, Schoemaker and Stremlau (2014) found that…