EASA Media Anthropology Network E-Seminar “The Digital Turn”

The European Association of Social Anthropologists’ Media Anthropology Network is organizing an E-Seminar on “The Digital Turn: New Directions in Media Anthropology” as an online follow-up event to the Network’s panel at the 15th EASA Biennial Conference in Stockholm, Aug. 2018. To participate to this e-seminar, which runs from 16-30 October 2018, navigate to http://www.media-anthropology.net/index.php/e-seminars […]

#AAA2016 Session ​DIGITAL MEDIA AND POP-CULTURE

​DIGITAL MEDIA AND POP-CULTURE: THE CONSTRUCTION OF SOCIO-CULTURAL EVIDENCE ON THE GLOBAL NEOLIBERAL STAGE Wednesday, November 16, 2016 4:00 PM – 5:45 PM Room: 103C Chair & Organizer: Salvatore Giusto – University of Toronto Chair & Organizer: Sunyoung Yang – University of Arizona Discussant: Gabriela Vargas-Cetina – Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan

ANTHROPOLOGY OF ICT: CELLULAR INTERNET, SOCIAL MEDIA, MOBILE MONEY, DECENTRALIZED ARCHITECTURE, BIG DATA

Thursday, November 19, 2015: 4:00 PM-5:45 PM 102 (Colorado Convention Center) This panel contextualizes contemporary Information and Communications Technology (ICT) within complex power topographies and explores how people creatively invent, adopt, adapt and resist ICT in various contexts. Academics are increasingly fascinated by the rapid global proliferation of ICT, even within impoverished and marginalized communities. […]