Can you win a war on Facebook? By Simon Turner
Recently, I have been trying to keep up with the situation in Bujumbura, the capital city of Burundi in light of the protests and the violence. And while…
Tag: media
Hactivists aren’t terrorists – but US prosecutors make little distinction
[written with Luca Follis, Lancaster University] Activists who use technology to conduct political dissent – hacktivists – are increasingly threatened with investigation, prosecution and often disprop…
Thinking about and with “Selfies” in the Classroom
I often long for a classroom in which students eschew electronics in favour of pen and paper, a classroom that favours slow reading and reflection, rather than one…
Seminar: Indigenous Media
Seminar “Indigenous Media” by Philipp Budka MA Program in Visual & Media Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin Course Description In this course students get an introduction to indigenous media…
Is Weibo on the way out? For some in China, it was never in.
Weibo: share your thoughts with the world (assuming, of course, you actually want to). Photo: bfishadow (CC BY 2.0) I read with interest Celia Hatton’s BBC News article published…
Sebastian Junger’s The Last Patrol, A Dialogue
End of the freight tracks, Connellsville, PA. From left to right: Brendan O’Byrne, Guillermo Cervera, Sebastian Junger and Rudy Valdez. Photo by Mariah Rehmet, courtesy of HBO. War…
Ethnographic films by anthropology students from Heidelberg
Ethnographic film has since long its place in the field of Anthropology. Heidelberg is no exception to this, where every list for a course on ethnographic filmmaking is…
“Something like history?… Or about volcanos?”
How often are you asked “Do you study about volcanos?”, when you talk about your profession as a (soon-to-be) anthropologist? While we anthropologists tend to self-reflect a lot…
Salon: "Why we’re obsessed with glamorizing archaeologists"
There's an interesting article on Salon right now on archaeologists and their profession, tied in with a new book, Lives in Ruins, by Marilyn Johnson, about the same…
BBC: "Cave paintings change ideas about the origin of art"
Indonesian archaeology briefly made the news this week with a story about rock art from Sulawesi. The art, which includes the oldest known figurative drawing in the world…
Inorganic life and ayahuasca plant spirits
As icons of the difference between nature and culture, there is arguably nothing more opposite than plant life and computers. Such is common sense and is based upon key…
Fantasies that matter: Images of sex work in media and art
I am looking forward to being in Hamburg, Germany, in August, for this unusually interesting event. My own talk is called Disqualified: Why sex workers suffer social death…
Do Not Keep Quiet: Subverting the Rules of Cinema Viewing in Sunnyside, Pretoria
By Dennis Webster Near to where I live in Sunnyside in Pretoria is a shopping centre called Sterland. The Ster-Kinekor there seems to be the exception to all…
Normalising Fat Discrimination – The Role of New Zealand News Media
New Zealand’s concern over an ‘obesity epidemic’ has resulted in overweight bodies being linked to a biomedical model of disease. This post discusses some of the issues from…
Normalising Fat Discrimination – The Role of New Zealand News Media
New Zealand’s concern over an ‘obesity epidemic’ has resulted in overweight bodies being linked to a biomedical model of disease. This post discusses some of the issues from…
Normalising Fat Discrimination – The Role of New Zealand News Media
New Zealand’s concern over an ‘obesity epidemic’ has resulted in overweight bodies being linked to a biomedical model of disease. This post discusses some of the issues from…
Normalising Fat Discrimination – The Role of New Zealand News Media
New Zealand’s concern over an ‘obesity epidemic’ has resulted in overweight bodies being linked to a biomedical model of disease. This post discusses some of the issues from…
"Religion in Digital Games": Relaunch of Open Access journal "Online"
“Second Life is their only chance to participate in religious rituals”: This seven year old post about the research by anthropologist Tom Boellstorff on the virtual world Second…
Carpe Diem/”YOLO”
I hang my head in shame over the fact that it has been months since I last posted anything/went back into the world of teenthropology. To be honest…
Reflections on Hurricane Sandy, media and disconnection
Last week, Hurricane Sandy pummeled the east coast of the US. Power outages due to extreme coastal flooding, high winds and fallen trees have caused food and gas…
22/7, språkbruk og “ulmende islamofobi” i Aftenposten
Masterstudent i sosialantropologi Marit Eline Christensen sparer ikke på kruttet når hun kritiserer enda et tvilsomt oppslag i Aftenposten (ikke på nett). “Tre uker etter at Aftenposten forsø…
22/7, språkbruk og “ulmende islamofobi” i Aftenposten
Masterstudent i sosialantropologi Marit Eline Christensen sparer ikke på kruttet når hun kritiserer enda et tvilsomt oppslag i Aftenposten (ikke på nett). “Tre uker etter at Aftenposten forsø…