. @DannyAnth speaking at our #EASA2016 #SocialMedia and #kinship panel right now! @EASAinfo @UCLWhyWePost pic.twitter.com/CIpLWzSXrw — Tom McDonald (@AnthroTom) July 22, 2016 The recent meeting of t…
Credit: Andrea Comas/ Reuters By Marta LobatoThe results of the Spanish general election on 26 June betrayed the expectations of many on the left. Pre-election polls predicted that…
Credit: Andrea Comas/ Reuters By Marta LobatoThe results of the Spanish general election on 26 June betrayed the expectations of many on the left. Pre-election polls predicted that…
Credit: Andrea Comas/ Reuters By Marta LobatoThe results of the Spanish general election on 26 June betrayed the expectations of many on the left. Pre-election polls predicted that…
Credit: Andrea Comas/ Reuters By Marta LobatoThe results of the Spanish general election on 26 June betrayed the expectations of many on the left. Pre-election polls predicted that…
One of the common claims made about social media is that it has facilitated a new form of political intervention aligned with the practices and inclinations of the…
Editor’s Note: The fourth contributor to the Co-designing with machines edition is Molly Templeton (@mollymeme), digital and social media expert, Director of Social Media at Everybody …
With this series, the TGA team had several objectives. One was to share some of our own wisdom and knowledge with those of you who are considering starting to blog.…
By Nell Haynes Social media is no longer the geek domain it once was, with the Americas and Europe approaching a fifty percent penetration rate, and an overall…
The EASA Media Anthropology Network’s panel “Media anthropology’s legacies and concerns” at the 14th European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) conference in Milan (20-23 July, 2016) …
In this post for ‘The Person in the (Big) Data‘ edition of EM, Helen Thornham @Thornhambot talks about how her research into data and the everyday has made her think critically…
Since our launch on the 29th February, the first three open access books in the Why We Post series have been downloaded over 6,000 times! 6,000 downloads in just…
New Facebook reactions, the expansion of “like” options to include “love,” “sad” and “angry” emoticons (among others), is just one way affect has collid…
Image: UCL Press By Jordi Bok As anthropologist Daniel Miller takes place behind the microphone to start his lecture, a whistle blows through the lecture room. It is…
Everyday salutations such as ‘Good Morning’, ‘Good Afternoon’, ‘Good Evening’ etc. are common social media interactions of the people of Panchagrami, used to keep …
#SupportYemen March 2011 By Marina de Regt “Aunt, if you know any way to migrate to Europe plz just tell me, I wanna run away from this…
‘Good morning’ message received on WhatsApp [double-click on the image to see the video]. So, what does the ethnography of social media use in southeast Italy tells us? In my…
Tom McDonald and Xinyuan Wang introduce China’s social media platforms Chinese social media is remarkable because despite extensive media coverage and academic research, these platforms remain s…
The last four months of 2015 were tough. I was locking myself in a claustrophobic student carrel every day, spending 9 hours staring at a computer screen but…
Here is a list of panels at the 14th European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Biennial Conference entitled “Anthropological legacies and human futures” (Milan, 20-23 July 2016, #EASA2016)…
All anthropologists would agree that stereotypes cause harm and should be avoided. Yet anthropology mainly consists of generalisations about groups of people: the Nuer do this, the Trobriand…
Banner of JA History Not for Sale Facebook page. On March 5, 2015, Eve M. Kahn’s “Newsworthy Notes” in the Antiques section of the New York Times included…
Image courtesy of shanzmataz. It’s the first time I’ve been away from Christmas in Trinidad since I started fieldwork there in 2011 (oh wait, I was home briefly…
The text above the image reads: ‘me without WhatsApp’. In this post Juliano Spyer suggests that the vocal backlash against the recent blocking of WhatsApp in…