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"Anthropology has two main tasks: to understand what it is to be human and to examine how humanity is manifested differently in the diversity of culture. These tasks have gained new impetus from the extraordinary rise of the digital. This book brings together several key anthropologists working with digital culture to demonstrate just how productive an anthropological approach to the digital has already become. Through a range of case studies from Facebook to Second Life to Google Earth, Digital Anthropology explores how human and digital can be defined in relation to one another, from avatars and disability; cultural differences in how we use social networking sites or practise religion; the practical consequences of the digital for politics, museums, design, space and development to new online world and gaming communities. The book also explores the moral universe of the digital, from new anxieties to open-source ideals. Digital Anthropology reveals how only the intense scrutiny of ethnography can overturn assumptions about the impact of digital culture and reveal its profound consequences for everyday life. Combining the clarity of a textbook with an engaging style which conveys a passion for these new frontiers of enquiry, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of anthropology, media studies, communication studies, cultural studies and sociology."--Publisher's website.

Mass media and anthropology. --- Digital media --- Digital communications --- Communication in anthropology. --- Mass media and culture. --- #SBIB:39A8 --- #SBIB:309H504 --- Culture and mass media --- Communications, Digital --- Digital transmission --- Pulse communication --- Anthropology and mass media --- Social aspects. --- Antropologie: linguïstiek, audiovisuele cultuur, antropologie van media en representatie --- Code en boodschap: sociologische, antropologische benadering --- Communication in anthropology --- Mass media and anthropology --- Mass media and culture --- Culture --- Anthropology --- Digital electronics --- Pulse techniques (Electronics) --- Telecommunication --- Signal processing --- Social aspects --- Digital techniques --- Computer. Automation --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Antropologie: linguïstiek, audiovisuele cultuur, antropologie van media en representatie --- Digital media - Social aspects --- Digital communications - Social aspects

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The moral economy of mobile phones implies a field of shifting relations among consumers, companies and state actors, all of whom have their own ideas about what is good, fair and just. These ideas inform the ways in which, for example, consumers acquire and use mobile phones; companies promote and sell voice, SMS and data subscriptions; and state actors regulate both everyday use of mobile phones and market activity around mobile phones. Ambivalence and disagreement about who owes what to whom is thus an integral feature of the moral economy of mobile phones. This volume identifies and evaluates the stakes at play in the moral economy of mobile phones. The six main chapters consider ethnographic cases from Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Vanuatu. The volume also includes a brief introduction with background information on the recent 'digital revolution' in these countries and two closing commentaries that reflect on the significance of the chapters for our understanding of global capitalism and the contemporary Pacific.

Telecommunication --- Information technology --- Consumption (Economics) --- Consumer demand --- Consumer spending --- Consumerism --- Spending, Consumer --- Demand (Economic theory) --- IT (Information technology) --- Technology --- Telematics --- Information superhighway --- Knowledge management --- Electric communication --- Mass communication --- Telecom --- Telecommunication industry --- Telecommunications --- Communication --- Information theory --- Telecommuting --- mobile phones --- pacific --- digital technology --- anthropology --- Digicel --- Fiji --- Papua New Guinea --- Vodafone

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Location Technologies in International Context offers the first international account of location technologies (in an expanded sense) and brings together a range of contributions on these technologies and their various cultures of use within the Global South. This collection asks: How, within the Global South, do location technologies differ across national markets, geo-linguistic communities and cultural contexts? What are the contrasting or shared meanings and practices associated with location technologies? And what innovative practices and new (or reinvigorated) theory may emerge from attention to the Global South? In exploring these questions, the collection contributes to our understanding of social, cultural, gendered and political relations on a global and local scale. Location Technologies in International Context is ideal for a range of disciplines, including cultural, communication and media studies; anthropology, sociology and geography; new media, Internet and mobile studies; and informatics and development studies.

Mobile computing --- Mobile geographic information systems --- Mobile communication systems --- Location-based services --- Social aspects.

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