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Lively and wide-ranging, The Rise of Nerd Politics is a anthropological exploration of the role that freedom technologists play in sparking new processes of political change in the digital age. Drawing on John Postill’s anthropological fieldwork on social media and digital activism in Spain, Indonesia, and Malaysia, the book focuses on a new class of transnational political actors, arguing that freedom technologists have managed to shape the hybrid media worlds in which today’s political change unfolds. Comparing Spain’s ongoing techno-political transformation to that of Tunisia, Iceland, the United States, Malaysia, and Indonesia, Postill argues that in all five countries freedom technologists are playing significant roles in highly uneven ongoing political changes, with ramifications that will increasingly affect the future of politics in the digital age.

#SBIB:309H103 --- #SBIB:309H1015 --- #SBIB:324H60 --- #SBIB:39A8 --- Mediatechnologie / ICT / digitale media: sociale en culturele aspecten --- Media: politieke, juridische, ethische, ideologische aspecten (incl. privacy) --- Politieke socialisatie --- Antropologie: linguïstiek, audiovisuele cultuur, antropologie van media en representatie --- Political participation --- Technological innovations. --- Technological innovations --- Political participation - Technological innovations

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With the end of the Cold War and the proliferation of civil wars and ""regime changes,"" the question of nation building has acquired great practical and theoretical urgency. From Eastern Europe to East Timor, Afghanistan and recently Iraq, the United States and its allies have often been accused of shirking their nation-building responsibilities as their attention - and that of the media -- turned to yet another regional crisis. While much has been written about the growing influence of television and the Internet on modern warfare, little is known about the relationship between media and

Iban (Bornean people) --- Mass media policy --- Nationalism --- Politics and government.

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The Anthropology of Digital Practices connects for the first time three distinct research areas – digital ethnography, causal ethnography and media practice theory – to explore how we might track the effects of new media practices in a digital world. It invites media and communication students and scholars to overcome the field’s old aversion to ‘media effects’ and explore the messy, complex, open-ended effects of new media practices in a digital age.Based on long-term ethnographic research and drawing from recent advances in the study of causality and ethnography, the book tells the ‘formation story’ of the anti-woke movement through a series of critical media events. It argues that media practices (e.g. podcasting, YouTubing, tweeting, commenting, broadcasting) will have ‘formative’ effects on an emerging social world at different points in time. One important task of the digital ethnographer is precisely to distinguish between the formative and non-formative effects of specific media practices. This book makes three contributions to our understanding of media practices in the digital era, namely a theoretical, methodological and empirical contribution. Theoretically, it furthers the ‘practice turn’ in media and communication studies by engaging with the latest thinking on causality and ethnography. Methodologically, it serves as a compelling, up-to-date guide to doing digital ethnography, with special reference to the study of digitally mediated practices. Empirically, it is the first book-length study of the anti-woke movement, a major actor in the ‘culture wars’ currently being fought across the Western world.With its accessible language and rich case studies, The Anthropology of Digital Practices will make an ideal supplementary textbook for a range of undergraduate and graduate courses in research methods, digital ethnography/anthropology, and digital activism.

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Introduction : theorising media and practice / John Postill ## Media as practice. Theorising media as practice / Nick Couldry ## What do we mean by 'media practices'? / Mark Hobart ## Media as practice: a brief exchange / Nick Couldry and Mark Hobart ## Media, culture and practice. From fan practice to mediated moments: the value of practice theory in the understanding of media audiences / S. Elizabeth Bird ## Thick context, deep epistemology: a meditation on wide-angle lenses on media, knowledge production and the concept of culture / Debra Spitulnik ## "But it is my Hhbit to read the Times": metaculture and practice in the reading of Indian newspapers / Mark A. Peterson ## Embedded/embedding media practices and cultural production / Ursula Rao ## Media practices in context. Communication, cognition and usage: epistemological considerations of media practices and processes / Guido Ipsen ## Language-games, in/dividuals and media uses: what a practice perspective should imply for media studies / Jo Helle-Valle ## A barthian approach to practice and media: Internet engagements among teleworkers in rural Denmark / Jens Kjaerulff ## Can practice theory inspire studies of ICTs in everyday life? / Toke H. Christensen and Inge Ripke ## New media production practices. Playful pactices: theorising 'new media' cultural production / Elisenda Ardèvol ... [et al.] ## Theorising the practices of free software: the movement / Christopher M. Kelty ## Cinematography and camera crew: practice, process and procedure / Cathy Greenhalgh.

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This sharp, innovative book champions the rising significance of ethnographic research on the use of digital resources around the world. It contextualises digital and pre-digital ethnographic research and demonstrates how the methodological, practical and theoretical dimensions are increasingly intertwined.Digital ethnography is central to our understanding of the social world; it can shape methodology and methods, and provides the technological tools needed to research society. The authoritative team of authors clearly set out how to research localities, objects and events as well as providing insights into exploring individuals’ or communities’ lived experiences, practices and relationships.The book:Defines a series of central concepts in this new branch of social and cultural researchChallenges existing conceptual and analytical categoriesShowcases new and innovative methodsTheorises the digital world in new waysEncourages us to rethink pre-digital practices, media and environments

Digital media --- Digital communications --- Ethnology --- Study and teaching --- Digital media. --- Digital communications. --- IT-samhället --- Etnografi. --- Study and teaching. --- sociala aspekter. --- Ethnic studies --- Communications, Digital --- Digital transmission --- Pulse communication --- Digital electronics --- Pulse techniques (Electronics) --- Telecommunication --- Signal processing --- Electronic media --- New media (Digital media) --- Mass media --- Online journalism --- Digital techniques --- Ethnology - Study and teaching --- Médias numériques. --- Transmission numérique. --- Ethnologie --- IT-samhället --- Étude et enseignement. --- Médias numériques. --- Transmission numérique. --- Étude et enseignement.