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This page is devoted to announcing events of interest to anthropologists working on media issues. If you have any events of this nature that you wish to publicise, please send all relevant details to Philipp Budka.
A one-day workshop aimed at developing a research project on the theme of media and social change.
Date of Workshop: 27 May 2011
No. participants: 30
Venue: Room G3, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Time: 10:00 to 17:00
Convenors e-Workshop on Digital and Media Anthropology (28 September – 12 October 2010) following the digital and media anthropology workshops at the EASA Conference 2010.
Media Anthropology Network workshop: The Rewards of Media 11th EASA Biennial Conference: Crisis and Imagination
Maynooth (Ireland), 24-27 August 2010
Convenors: Philipp Budka (University of Vienna, Austria) John Postill (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) Discussant:
Mark A. Peterson (Miami University, Ohio, USA)
Short abstract: The workshop explores the rewards (social, economic, symbolic, sensory, etc.) derived from engaging in specific media practices in different sociocultural settings. Long abstract: This workshop is a sequel to the Media Anthropology Network workshop on media practices held at the EASA conference in Bristol in 2006 that led to the edited volume “Theorising Media and Practice” (Braeuchler and Postill, in press). Whilst on that occasion the aim was to explore and theorise media practices in general, this workshop will focus on a single but crucial aspect of mediated practice, namely its rewards (cf. Warde 2005). As contemporary social worlds become ever more media-saturated – particularly after the huge surge in mobile phone uptake in both rich and poor countries – questions arise about the considerable amounts of time and money that many individuals and groups appear to spend using, learning, sharing and making all kinds of media technologies (mobiles, blogs, wikis, radio, social networking sites, YouTube, etc.). Presenters may wish to address (but are not limited to) questions such as: * What are the rewards (cultural, social, economic, symbolic, sensory, etc.) that people derive from engaging in specific media practices?
* Why do people around the globe devote scarce temporal and financial resources to certain media practices and not others? * In keeping with the conference theme of ‘Crisis and Imagination’, how do people caught up in the global turmoil use old and new media technologies to seek or create new job opportunities, imagine future economic scenarios or perhaps ‘forget’ their financial woes?
References: Bräuchler, B. and J. Postill (eds) (in press, due Sep 2010). Theorising Media and Practice. Oxford and New York: Berghahn. Warde, A. 2005. Consumption and theories of practice, Journal of Consumer Culture 5: 131-53. The call for papers is now closed. See abstracts here:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2010/panels.php5?PanelID=648 General information on the conference:
If you have any questions, please contact the panel convenors.
Media practices and cultural producers EASA Media Anthropology Network Second Workshop
Barcelona, Spain, November 6-8, 2008
Abstract: The workshop addresses media practices and the arenas of cultural production in the context of the "new media" landscape. In broad terms, the workshop will inquire into the leading theoretical and methodological perspectives for doing anthropological research on digital mediated practices and their implications for the understanding of people's interaction with media. The aim is to explore the circulatory flows of media practices and in particular, how digital technology use is changing media culture, cultures of media circulation and the very definition of cultural producer. Anthropological and ethnographic studies of media have been largely focused on analyzing reception of media products (television, radio, press and film) and media consumption related to domestic appropriation of technologies. There is also a wide body of research devoted to the study of the political dimension of alternative and indigenous media. However, there has been a separation between media and Internet studies, and between the analysis of media reception and practices of self production, such as family photography or home video. Current digital media practices urge scholars to examine self production contents and media flows from a broader perspective that cross-cuts divisions between public and private, media corporative products and people releases, home production and cultural industry, political activism and domestic affairs. The workshop aims to become a locus for discussing innovative theoretical and methodological approaches that deal with such interwoven practices of media production and consumption.
The workshop will address questions like: how is self production entering circulatory matrices of media and power? How does cultural production itself become a practice of reception or consumption? What are the implications of understanding audiences as cultural producers? Do new media practices redefine the role of cultural producers? Are self production and content sharing new cultural forms of media production? What are the cultural implications of people's media productive practices? Rather than an uncritical celebration of people's empowerment, this workshop encourages exchange of research experiences about ways of doing ethnographic research by following social networks and the circuits of new media practices.
Keynote speakers: Elizabeth Bird (University of South Florida) Don Slater (London School of Economics) Dorle Drackle (University of Bremen) Nick Couldry (Goldsmiths, University of London) Coordinators: Elisenda Ardèvol Open University of Catalonia Sigurjon Baldur Hafsteinsson Coordinator of the Media Anthropology Network Organization Committee in Barcelona: Begonya Enguix Edgar Gomez Cruz Adolfo Estalella Studies of Humanities, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Gemma San Cornelio
Toni Roig Studies of Sciences of Information and Communication, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya more info: http://www.uoc.edu/symposia/easa
All of the videos can be found here Media, technology, and knowledge cultures:
anthropological perspectives on issues of diversity, mutuality and exclusion (w071)
10th EASA Biennial Conference 2008: Experiencing diversity and mutuality
Ljubljana, Slovenia
26 to 30 August, 2008 Convenors: Cora Bender (University of Bremen) Corabender(at)aol.com (please replace the (at) with @) Ian Dent (University of Cambridge)
Ian.Dent(at)iandent.com (please replace the (at) with @) Discussant: Dorle Dracklé (University of Bremen) dorle.drackle(at)s-hb.de (please replace the (at) with @) Abstract: In the recent years, many scholars in the field of media anthropology have pointedout the necessity to study media as technology, in order to further decenter the textual content of media in favor of their social context. However, what do we mean by technology? This workshop intends to inspire the reception of recent debates in anthropology and related neighboring disciplines which have expanded the perspectives on technology vastly. Science and technology studies, material culture studies, ecology and environmentalism, medical anthropology, and anthropological studies of cyberspace and technoscience, contribute to a much better understanding of technologies not only as sets of material devices, but as complex, negotiated arrangements of agents, social practices, cultural imaginations, and circulating things. Abandoning older 'ballistic' concepts of technologies as physical tools having an 'impact' on cultures, research into the dynamics of technoscience suggests that much of what constitutes technology in a given situation is the outcome of politically interested media discourse producing models of diversity, mutuality and exclusion. Nevertheless, every technological orthodoxy produces its heterodoxy, as well. Unpacking the 'black box' of technologies, therefore, means to look at different opposing ways of how technology is culturally constituted by and in the media, how media-related practices configure and re-configure technology, and how technology and cultural imagination interplay. Possible fields of exploration may include, among others: Symbolic appropriationsof technologies as 'techno-totems'; media, technology and the body; technology andminority claims; technology and indigenous media; media practices and technological ideologies; technologies, moral regimes, and joy; technologies and the reconfiguration of nature-culture boundaries; technologies andnationalism; technologies and imagined communities; technology and creativity;entertainment; media technology and gambling; technologies and representations of thepost-human; visual cultures of technology; technology, media and empowerment;technology and the construction of the subject.
Understanding media practices workshop (w013) 9th EASA Biennial Conference: Bristol, UK
September 18th - 21st, 2006
Convenors: John Postill (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) jpostill(at)usa.net (please replace the (at) with @) Birgit Bräuchler (Asia Research Institute, Singapore) birgitbraeuchler(at)gmx.net (please replace the (at) with @) This workshop will explore the current state of the anthropological study of media practices and what directions it may take in future (an EASA Media Anthropology Network Workshop).
Abstract: In recent years, anthropologists have taken a great interest in the study of media. A plethora of ethnographic studies, three media anthropology readers, one historical survey of this research area and the EASA Media Anthropology Network are some examples of this growing interest. Although this area of research is marked by a high degree of theoretical and empirical diversity, most anthropologists working in it concentrate their efforts on the study of 'media practices', including practices of visual representation, telework, TV production and consumption, news making, radio drama, biomedicine, online dating, web forums, cyberactivism, e-government, blogging and text messaging. Drawing on these kinds of case studies, this workshop is aimed at exploring the current state of the anthropological study of media practices, and what directions it may take in future. Contributors may wish to address questions such as: What do we actually mean by 'media practices'? What are the key theoretical and methodological problems attending their study? How do different theories of practice aid or hinder anthropological analyses of media practices? In what ways do different media practices overlap with one another and with non-media practices? How can we begin to map and theorise the bewildering diversification of media practices in recent years? Accepted papers:
For a list of accepted paper proposals see:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa06/easa06_panels.php?PanelID=27
Further information on the conference: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa06/index.htm Report on the workshop (in German): http://technikforschung.twoday.net/topics/Konferenzberichte/ For further information please contact: John Postill (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) jpostill(at)usa.net (please replace the (at) with @) Birgit Bräuchler (Asia Research Institute, Singapore) birgitbraeuchler(at)gmx.net (please replace the (at) with @) The discussions within the workshop continued on the mailing list of the Media Anthropology Network within the scope of an e-seminar (PDF, 60 KB).
Using anthropological theory to understand media forms and practices EASA Media Anthropology Network First Workshop
28 November to 20 December 2005
Organised by Sarah Pink (Loughborough) and John Postill (Staffordshire)
The three stages of this part-online workshop will be:
29 Nov to 6 Dec e-workshop (part 1) (PDF, 374 KB)
9 Dec. Loughborough University workshop (Photo Gallery)
15 Dec. to 20 Dec. e-workshop (part 2) (PDF, 190 KB)
Workshop Programme:
10.00-10.20 Introduction Sarah Pink (PDF, 82 KB) 10.20-10.40 Speaker 1: Nick Couldry (LSE) (PDF, 82 KB) 10.40-11.00 Speaker 2: John Postill (Staffordshire) (PDF, 108 KB) 11.00-11.20 Speaker 3: Dorle Dracklé (Bremen) (PDF, 95 KB) 11.20-11.40 Speaker 4: Brian Street (King's) (PDF, 104 KB) 11.40-12.00 Break 12.00-12.20 Speaker 5: Graham Murdock (Loughborough) 12.20-12.40 Speaker 6: Tom Wormald (Manchester) (PDF, 144 KB) 12.40-1.00 Speaker 7: Elisenda Ardevol (OU Catalonia) (PDF, 134 KB) 1.00-2.00 Lunch 2.00-2.10 Intro to the working groups 2.10-3.10 Working groups 3.10-3.30 Tea 3.30-4.30 Presenting group findings and final discussion |
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