Digital Cultures, Digital Anthropology
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Digital & Social Media Use, Internet Use
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Digital Cultures
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Digital Communication, Digital Media
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Culture and Communication, Culture and Media
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Digital Anthropology, Cyberanthropology
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Internet
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Social Media
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Digitalization, Digital Transformation
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Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Relations
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Digital Activism, Cyber Advocacy
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Mobile Phone Use
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Cybercultures
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Memes
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Influencers (Social Media)
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Mobile Phones, Smartphones
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Prosumers & User Self-Marketing
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Telecentres, Community Telecentres, Internet Cafés
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Conflict-Sensitive Digital Technology Use & Social Media in Prevention & Transformation
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Media Ethnography
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Digital Art, Virtual Art
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Digital Humanities
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Clothing & Fashion
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Digital Criticism
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YouTube
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Digital Economies, Digital Societies
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Information Society
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Gender Relations
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Oral Communication
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Selfies, Self-Portrait Photographs
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Lower Classes
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Visual Communication
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Digital Divide, Digital Inequalities
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Advocacy & Empowerment: Disadvantaged & Vulnerable Groups
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Civic Engagement, Citizen Participation, Civil Society & Digital Communication
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Internet & Social Media Use: Women
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Digital & Social Media Use: Youth
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Media Use: Lower Classes & Poor Population
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Mobile Phone Use: Minorities
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Media Use: Urban Populations
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Film Series
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Videos
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Facial Recognition, Biometric Surveillance
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Social Media Marketing & Digital Public Relations
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Traditional Communication
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Oral Cultures & Traditions, Oral History, Oral Testimonies
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Islamic State (Political-Religious Extremist Organization)
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Hate Speech, Hate Speech in Social Media
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Internet / ICTs and Conflicts
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Content Analysis (Research Method)
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Visual Anthropology
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Literature
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Poetry
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ICT / Internet Projects (Development Aid)
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Digital Healthcare & Information, Mobile Health, E-Health, Telemedicine
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Digital Media Landscapes
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Digital Media Research, Digital Communication Research
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Digital Platforms & Intermediaries
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Digital Research Methods
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Digital & Social Media Effects
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Internet / ICTs and Social Change
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Digital Financial Services, Mobile Banking, Mobile Payphone Business
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Digital Journalism, Online Journalism
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Social Media in Political Communication
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Web Entertainment Series
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Democratization & Digital Media / Social Media
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Facebook
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Instagram
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Digital Philosophies
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ICTs and Poverty Reduction
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Mobile Phone Markets
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LGBT & Communication / Media
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Game Industries, Game Production
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Small Enterprises, Micro Businesses, Small & Medium Enterprises (SME)
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Neoliberalism
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Public Goods, Commons
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Entertainment and Media / Communication
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Humour, Parody, Satire
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Political Parody and Satire
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Environmental Communication
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Feminism & Communication
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Gender Norms & Roles
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Ethnicity in Communication
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Indigenous Languages
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Mobile Journalism, Video Journalism
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Protests, Protest Movements, Protest Reporting & Media Representation
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Linguistic Diversity: Internet & Digital Media
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Communication
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Failures, Mistakes, Shortcomings: Experiences & Learnings
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Digital Media Use: Migrants & Diasporas
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Music
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People with Disabilities: Tailored ICT & Media Products
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Photography
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Social Photography
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Election Campaigns: Social Media
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Emotions in the Media, Emotional Functions & Messages of Media
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Self-Representation
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Everyday Life
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Research Methods
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Qualitative Research Methods
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Quantitative Research Methods
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Rural Communication, Media in Rural Areas
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Economic, Political and Social Effects
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Nomades
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Rohingya
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Networks & Networking
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Reality & Communication, Truth & Media
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Alternative Technologies
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Open Source Software
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Mobile Phone Use for Social Purposes, Mobiles for Development
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User-Generated Contents
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Emblems, Pictograms, GIFs
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Visualization
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Youth Cultures, Youth Milieus, Youth Identities
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Youth & Digital Media
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Digital China: Creativity and Community in the Sinocybersphere

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2024), 312 pp.
"Over the past decade, digital technologies have profoundly reshaped the Chinese cultural landscape. With a focus on the creative agency of new media and online communities, this volume examines this development through the notion of the Sinocybersphere - the networked spaces across the globe that n ... more

Full Night: The Best Romanian Internet Cafe

Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2024), 28 pp.
"Web series are, in some ways, tailored for capturing everyday life in a pandemic. As shortform episodic content distributed via online platforms, the creators of Web series commonly work with tight budgets, recruiting crew and cast from their own networks, and making use of the home as an inexpensi ... more
"Visibility and its counterpart, invisibility, are critical concepts in digital communication, although research on these concepts in communication studies has rarely been reflected on in an integrative way. This article aims to map key discussions in current research on in/visibility from a communi ... more

Social media images and conflicts

London; New York: Routledge (2023), xii, 137 pp.
"This collection considers how digital images and social media reconfigure the way conflicts are played out, represented and perceived around the globe. Devoted to developing original theoretical frameworks and empirical insights, the volume addresses the role of user images and social media in rela ... more
"Son tres las preguntas importantes que articulan este libro. En primer lugar, si el auge de un nuevo pensamiento realista, que reflexiona sobre nuestra relación con los objetos materiales, con la naturaleza y con las ideas, es un pensamiento político. Con ese interrogante queremos examinar el mod ... more

Failurists: When things go awry

Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2023), 204 pp.
"This publication, developed in partnership between UNESCO and the LiiV Center, maps the landscape of innovation in digital anthropology as an approach to ensure a better understanding of how human communities and societies interact and are shaped by technologies and, knowing this, how policies can ... more
"Mixed Methods Perspectives on Communication and Social Media Research addresses the need for a discipline-cum-methodology-tailored book that navigates the current research spectrum of communication and social media ("CommSocMed"). It examines contemporary and relevant issues that intertwine the exp ... more

Digitale Bildkulturen

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2022), 397 pp.
"Annekathrin Kohout und Wolfgang Ullrich versammeln Beiträge, die sich verschiedenen Aspekten der zeitgenössischen visuellen Kultur widmen: Was zeichnet die Kommunikation über Memes aus, und warum sind sie so beliebt? Wie funktionieren GIFs, und wie haben sich das Dateiformat und seine Nutzung ü ... more

Lives of data: Essays on computational cultures from India

Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2022), 160 pp.
"Amid the proliferation of a range of new and ubiquitous online platforms, YouTube, a video-based platform, remains a key driver in the democratisation of creative, playful, vernacular, intimate, as well as political expressions. As a critical node of contemporary communication and digital cultures, ... more
"Memes dienen nicht nur der popkulturellen Unterhaltung oder der Kunst, sie werden auch in der Politik, in lokalen und internationalen Wahlkämpfen oder auf Demonstrationen verwendet. In ihrer typischsten Form sind sie Text-Bild-Gefüge, die sich digital mit viraler Geschwindigkeit verbreiten und tr ... more

Fluter. Soziale Medien

Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2022), 50 pp.
"Wie sozial sind Soziale Medien? Es gibt mindestens zwei asoziale Dimensionen im jetzigen Regime der Sozialen Medien: Sie sind sozial vor allem für die Betreiber und ihre Eigentümer. Der in Deutschland geltende Verfassungsgrundsatz der "informationellen Selbstbestimmung" wird für Nutzer und Nutze ... more
"Beinahe täglich posten oder liken wir etwas auf Twitter, Facebook oder Instagram. Als Orte direkter Kommunikation und Interaktion sind die Sozialen Medien längst zu Plattformen für die Verhandlung und Verbreitung kultureller Ausdrucksformen unseres Alltags geworden. Doch bei näherer Betrachtung ... more
"Digitale Technologien sind eine Zumutung! Um dies zu ändern, sollten wir uns nicht von ihnen abwenden, sondern uns eingehender mit ihrer transformatorischen Macht befassen. Shintaro Miyazaki ruft dazu auf, die alternativen Rhythmen des kooperativen, solidarischen Zusammenlebens (Commoning) operabe ... more
"Music and Digital Media is the first comparative ethnographic study of the impact of digital media on music worldwide. It offers a radical and lucid new theoretical framework for understanding digital media through music, showing that music is today where the promises and problems of the digital as ... more
"Shaped by academic fields, industries, national contexts, technologies and platforms, and languages and cultures, for over two decades netnography has impacted the research practices of scholars around the world. In this volume, thirty-two researchers present nineteen chapters that examine how they ... more

Media Culture in Nomadic Communities

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2021), 222 pp.
"Media Culture in Nomadic Communities examines the ways that new technologies and ICT infrastructures have changed the communicative norms and patterns that regulate mobile and nomadic communities' engagement in local and international deliberative decision making. Each chapter examines a unique com ... more