The Last Moon Village: A Proposal for a Multimodal Anthropology
You’ll see them in film, k-dramas, music videos, webtoons and video games: narrow Seoul alleys (골목길), old restaurants with peeling wallpaper, protagonists drown…
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Elliot Montpellier takes the page 99 test
Page 99 of my dissertation offers only a half-page of writing. The top half contains a screenshot from YouTube of the original soundtrack (OST) for the Hum TV…
From a Hashtag to the Right for Indoor Air Quality: A Short Story of the #covidisairborne Movement
Isolated during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, I started to follow on Twitter (the social media platform now called X) a few scientists who were dedicating…
Digital Contention in a Divided Society – review
In Digital Contention in a Divided Society, Paul Reilly examines how social media influences political engagement in Northern Ireland, analysing digital interactions during the Union Flag Protest (201…
Religion auf Instagram — Interview mit Prof. Dr. Viera Pirker und Paula Paschke
Prof. Dr. Viera Pirker, Professorin für Religionspädagogik und Mediendidaktik an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main sowie seit 2024 Vizepräsidentin der Goethe-Universität für Studium und Lehre,…
Anagha Anil: Portrait Populism: On the Communist Iconography of Kerala
Communism continues to thrive both as a ubiquitous presence and a powerful electoral force in the south Indian state of Kerala. Established in 1940, the Communist Party of…
Networking for Introverts
I realized that I miss connecting – and being connected – with other people. Last week I read Taking the Work out of Networking by Karen Wickre, and…
Multimodal Methods in Anthropology
Today (April 26, 2024), our book, “Multimodal Methods in Anthropology” is released into the world. Here’s a song I’ve created for the moment using Udio, a text-to-song Generative…
The Revolution Will Be Hilarious: Comedy for Social Change and Civic Power – review
Caty Borum‘s The Revolution Will Be Hilarious: Comedy for Social Change and Civic Power considers how comedy intersects with activism and drives social change. Borum’s accessible text draw…
Platypod, Episode Eight: CASPR 2023
Download the full transcript of this episode. CASTAC in the Spring 2023 The 2023 edition of CASPR: CASTAC in the Spring discussed digital ethnography and its multiple facets.…
Júlia Fernandez: Outside of Humanity: Palestinian Children and the Value of Life
The algorithm swiftly gets it –yes, I am sucked in by news about Gaza- and collapses my social media platforms’ feeds into a monothematic thread that mirrors my…
Sahana Udupa and Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan on their book, Digital Unsettling
Interview by James Slotta https://nyupress.org/9781479819157/digital-unsettling/ James Slotta: A couple of decades ago, paeans to the liberatory potential of the internet were common. Since then, t…
April Reber take the page 99 test
Page 99 falls in chapter two of my dissertation. This chapter, “Moments of Disruption,” describes how members of the radical right group, Alternative for Germany (AfD), message a…
Atheistische Online-Community – Untersuchungen zu sozialen Interaktionsformen von Atheist*innen auf Reddit
Im Juni 2021 habe ich mich erfolgreich auf ein Abschlussstipendium von REMID e. v. beworben und konnte mit dieser Förderung meine Masterarbeit mit dem Titel „Atheistische Online-Community –…
Female Truck Drivers in China Navigate Gender Norms on Douyin
It’s dark outside: 4:34 AM. I am peering through a truck’s windshield, gazing at a seemingly endless stretch of highway. “Female truck driver Li Ping is live streaming,”…
Seriensommer, Folge 4: Paranoia, Killer-Apps und der Sadismus der Erwachsenen
Das Coming-of-Age und die Mischung von Realität und Fiktion sind an sich klassische Stoffe des literarischen und filmischen Erzählens. Die aktuellen TV-Serien über das Erwachsenwerden fügen diesen Sto…
Salvaging what is good
Photomicrograph of various seeds. By Alexander Klepnev: Own work, CC BY 4.0.* This post is more practical than nostalgic. Yes, sometimes I like to look back and think…
Becoming a Socialite: How Virtual “Fakeness” Produces Material Realities among Urban Chinese Gay Men
Real, Unreal, and Whatever Else In-between On Chinese gay dating apps, “fake profiles” are a constant concern: photos might have been altered or biometrics might have been fabricated.…
Digital Multiples and Social Media
In this post, we unpack the meaning and many works of creating and maintaining digital multiples, a term we coined in our recent ethnography, A Filtered Life, to…
Beauty Filters: New Tech, Old Problems
Retaining a youthful appearance is a laborious and painful exercise, often rife with invisible labor. Digital beauty tech has made it much easier. Rather than altering our own…
Follow us on Mastodon
Since Elon Musk bought Twitter, there has been an exodus of “Twitter executives on the front lines of protecting safety, security, speech, and accessibility. Some were fired, others…
Platypod, Episode Four: Connections and Disconnections on Social Media
Platypod In this episode, Platypod presents a conversation between Baird Campbell (Rice University) and Ilana Gershon (Indiana University Bloomington). They discuss the politics of connection and disc…
Photoshopping Desire: Gender, Caste, and the “Authentic” Self
Screenshot of the comments for the post by @photo_paparazzo, being discussed in the blogpost In an Instagram post by a photographer @photo_paparazzo, we see what the labor of…
Workshop: Social Media für Autor*innen
Workshop: Social Media für Autor*innen Wann? Dienstag, 27.9.2022, 16:30-18 Uhr Format? Online per zoom, Begleitmaterial nachträglich per E-Mail Wer? Vanessa Schmidt, Element Studios | Med…