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Netnography Unlimited: Understanding Technoculture Using Qualitative Social Media Research
New York; London: Routledge (2021), xv, 325 pp.
"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
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Digitale Bildkulturen: Bildproteste, Screenshots, Hassbilder, Netzfeminismus und Selfies
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2021), 397 pp.
"Als Selfie oder im politischen Prozess, als gleichermaßen fluide wie langlebige Postings, in verstörenden Hassbildern oder als Labor des Feminismus wirken digitale Bilder in je eigenen Kontexten: Menschen inszenieren sich und werden inszeniert, vernetzen und bekämpfen sich, posieren und protesti
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Social Media Literacy, Ethnicity and Peacebuilding in Kenya
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2019), 14 pp.
"Kenya has experienced a cycle of political violence following a series of controversial elections that have centred on ethnic competition, leading to human rights abuses, deaths, destruction of property and a downward economic spiral. At the core of election violence, witnessed in 2007/8 and in 201
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The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West
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Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press (2019), 269 pp.
"The Next Billion Users reveals that many assumptions about internet use in developing countries are wrong. After immersing herself in factory towns, slums, townships, and favelas, Payal Arora assesses real patterns of internet usage in India, China, South Africa, Brazil, and the Middle East. She fi
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Social Media in South India
London: UCL Press; University College London (2017), xi, 240 pp.
"One of the first ethnographic studies to explore the use of social media in the everyday lives of people in Tamil Nadu, 'Social Media in South India' provides an understanding of this subject in a region experiencing rapid transformation. The influx of IT companies over the past decade into what wa
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Asian Video Cultures: In the Penumbra of the Global
Durham; London: Duke University Press (2017), viii, 360 pp.
Social Media in Trinidad: Values and Visibility
London: UCL Press (2017), xiv, 236 pp.
"Drawing on 15 months of ethnographic research in one of the most under-developed regions in the Caribbean island of Trinidad, this book describes the uses and consequences of social media for its residents. Jolynna Sinanan argues that this semi-urban town is a place in-between: somewhere city dwell
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Nach der Revolution: Ein Brevier digitaler Kulturen
Berlin; Duisburg: Tempus Corporate; Haniel Stiftung (2017), 204 pp.
"Der Sammelband enthält 15 Beiträge von Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern unterschiedlicher Disziplinen (Medien- und Kulturwissenschaft, Soziologie, Organisations- und Managementforschung, Ethnologie, Sozialpsychologie, Kulturgeschichte). In kurzen Essays werden pointiert Aspekte des kultu
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Visualising Facebook: A Comparative Perspective
London: UCL Press (2017), ix, 224 pp.
"Why do women respond so differently to becoming a mother in England from the way they do in Trinidad? How are values such as carnival and suburbia expressed visually? Based on an examination of over 20,000 images, the authors argue that phenomena such as selfies and memes must be analysed in their
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The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media
New York; London: Routledge, paperback ed. (2017), xxiii, 558 pp.
"The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media seeks to be the definitive publication for scholars and students interested in comprehending all the various aspects of mobile media. This collection, which gathers together original articles by a global roster of contributors from a variety of disciplines, s
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Social Media in Emergent Brazil: How the Internet Affects Social Change
London: UCL Press; University College London (2017), xviii, 240 pp.
"Based on 15 months of ethnographic research, this book aims to understand why low-income Brazilians have invested so much of their time and money in learning about social media. Juliano Spyer explores this question from a number of perspectives, including education, relationships, work and politics
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How the World Changed Social Media
London: UCL Press; University College London (2016), xxiv, 262 pp.
"The first book in Why We Post, a book series that investigates the findings of nine anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in communities across the world, including Brazil, Chile, China, England, India, Italy, Trinidad and Turkey. This book offers a comparative analysis summarising the re
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Tendências em comunicação digital
São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA-USP) (2016), 140 pp.
Digital Humanities and Digital Media: Conversations on Politics, Culture, Aesthetics and Literacy
London: Open Humanities Press (2016), 304 pp.
"The observations shared in this book take the form of conversations about digital media and culture centered around four distinct thematic fields: politics and government, algorithm and censorship, art and aesthetics, as well as media literacy and education. Among the keywords discussed are: data m
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Routledge Handbook of New Media in Asia
London; New York: Routledge (2016), xii, 475 pp.
"While a decade ago much of the discussion of new media in Asia was couched in Occidental notions of Asia as a "default setting" for technology in the future, today we are seeing a much more complex picture of contesting new media practices and production. As "new media" becomes increasingly an ever
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Social Media in Southeast Turkey: Love, Kinship and Politics
London: UCL Press; University College London (2016), xi, 194 pp.
"This book presents an ethnographic study of social media in Mardin, a medium-sized town located in the Kurdish region of Turkey. The town is inhabited mainly by Sunni Muslim Arabs and Kurds, and has been transformed in recent years by urbanisation, neoliberalism and political events. Elisabetta Cos
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Digital Keywords: A Vocabulary of Information Society and Culture
Princeton, NJ; Oxford: Princeton University Press (2016), xlv, 303 pp.
"Inspired by Raymond Williams's 1976 classic 'Keywords', the timely collection Digital Keywords gathers pointed, provocative short essays on more than two dozen keywords by leading and rising digital media scholars from the areas of anthropology, digital humanities, history, political science, philo
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Comunicação digital na era da participação
Porto Alegre: Editora Fi (2016), 210 pp.
Analog ist das neue Bio: Ein Plädoyer für eine menschliche digitale Welt
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2015), 224 pp.
"Kaum ein Ort der Erde, der nicht digital vermessen oder erfasst ist, kaum ein Lebensbereich ohne digitale Steuerung, Erleichterung und Optimierung. Die Schattenseite der Digitalisierung bestehe, so Andre Wilkens, in ihrem Potenzial zur Erfassung, Kontrolle und Manipulation. Er stellt in diesem Buch
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Depletion Design: A Glossary of Network Ecologies
Amsterdam: Insittute of Network Cultures (2012), 192 pp.
"Eager to assist, organize, and structure our lifestream logistics, new corporate actors offer communicative freedoms based on commercial user-as-product philosophies of expression. But we now design our own interfaces to face our others, our algorithmic others. Our collective reflection on nature a
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