The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology

The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology provides a broad overview of the widening and flourishing area of media anthropology, and outlines key themes, debates, and emerging directions. The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology draws together the work of scholars from across the globe, with rich ethnographic studies that address a wide range of media practices and forms. Comprising 41 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Companion is divided into three parts: Histories Approaches Thematic Considerations. The chapters offer wide-ranging explorations of how forms of mediation influence communication, social relationships, cultural practices, participation, and social change, as well as production and access to information and knowledge. This volume considers new developments, and highlights the ways in which anthropology can contribute to the study of the human condition and the social processes in which media are entangled. This is an indispensable teaching resource for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students and an essential text for scholars working across the areas that media anthropology engages with, including anthropology, sociology, media and cultural studies, internet and communication studies, and science and technology studies.

Introduction Elisabetta Costa, Patricia G. Lange, Nell Haynes, Jolynna Sinanan PART I: Histories 1. Media Anthropology and the Digital Challenge Mark Allen Peterson 2. Indigenous Media: Anthropological Perspectives and Historical Notes Philipp Budka 3. A Longitudinal Study of Media in Brazil Conrad Phillip Kottak and Richard Pace PART II: Approaches A. Media as Infrastructure 4. "Here, Listen to My CD-R": Music Transactions and Infrastructures in Underground Hip-Hop Touring Anthony Kwame Harrison 5. "Technology is Wonderful Until It Isn't": Community-Based Research and the Precarity of Digital Infrastructure Jerome Crowder, Peggy Determeyer, and Sara Rogers 6. Media Migration Patricia G. Lange 7. The Digitally Natural: Hypomediacy and the "Really Real" in Game Design Thomas M. Malaby B. Media as Practice 8. Media Practices and Their Social Effects John Postill 9. Television is Not a Democracy: The Limits of Interactive Broadcast in Japan Elizabeth A. Rodwell 10. Producing Place through Play: An Ethnography of Location-based Gaming Kyle Moore 11. PhotoMedia as Anthropology: Towards a Speculative Research Method Edgar Gómez Cruz 12. Content-as-Practice: Studying Digital Content with a Media Practice Approach Christoph Bareither C. Media as Materiality 13. The Materiality of the Virtual in Urban Space Jordan Kraemer 14. Anthropology and Digitial Media: Multivocal Materialities of Video Meetings and Deafness Rebekah Cupitt 15. Cloudwork: Data Centre Labour and the Maintenance of Media Infrastructure A.R.E. Taylor 16. Media Anthropology and Emerging Technologies: Re-working Media Presence Sarah Pink, Yolande Strengers, Melisa Duque, Larissa Nichols, and Rex Martin D. Media as Representation 17. #Everest: Visual Economies of Leisure and Labour in the Tourist Encounter Jolynna Sinanan 18. Postcolonial Digital Collections: Instruments, Mirrors, Agents Haidy Geismar and Katja Müller 19. Ethnographies of the Digitally Dispossessed Heather Ford PART III: Thematic Considerations A. Relationships 20. "Friends from WeChat Groups": The Practice of Friendship via Social Media among Older People in China Xinyuan Wang 21. Mediated Money and Social Relationships among Hong Kong Cross-boundary Students Tom McDonald, Holy Hoi Ki Shum and Kwok Cheung Wong 22. Narratives of Digital Intimacy: Romanian Migration and Mediated Transnational Life Donya Alinejad and Laura Candidatu B. Social Inequality and Marginalisation 23. Mediating Hopes: Social Media and Crisis in Northern Italy Elisabetta Costa 24. Digital Inequality and Relatedness in India after Access Sirpa Tenhunen 25. In This Together: Black Women, Collective Screening Experiences, and Space-Making as Meaning-Making Marlaina Martin 26. Black Gamer’s Refuge: Finding Community within the Magic Circle of Whiteness Akil Fletcher C. Identities and Social Change 27. Inking Identity: Indigenous Nationalism in Bolivian Tattoo Art Nell Haynes 28. Being Known and Becoming Famous in Kampala, Uganda Brooke Schwartz Bocast 29. The Hall of Mirrors: Negotiating Gender on Chilean Social Media Baird Campbell D. Political Conservatism 30. Media Anthropology and the Crisis of Facts Peter Hervik 31. Conspiracy Media Ecologies and the Case for Guerilla Anthropology Leighton C. Petersonand Jeb J. Card 32. Researching Political Trolls as Instruments of Political Conservatism in Turkey: A Historical Framework and Methodological Reflections on a Discourse Community Erkan Saka 33. Performing Conservatism:A Study of Emerging Political Mobilisations in Latin America using "Social Media Drama" Analysis Raúl Castro-Pérez E. Surveillance 34. Algorithmic Violence in Everyday Life and the Role of Media Anthropology Veronica Barassi 35. Queer and Muslim? Social Surveillance and Islamic Sexual Ethics on Twitter Benjamin Ale-Ebrahim 36. Queer Sousveillance: Publics, Politics, and Social Media in South Korea Alex Wolff F. Emerging Technologies and Contemporary Challenges: Data, AI and VR 37. The Algorithmic Silhouette: New Technologies and the Fashionable Body Heather A. Horst and Sheba Mohammid 38. Unlocking Heritage In Situ: Tourist Places and Augmented Reality in Estonia Christian S. Ritter 39. Precarity, Discriminiation and (In)Visibility: An Ethnography of "The Algorithm" in the YouTube Influencer Industry Zoë Glatt 40. AI Design and Everyday Logics in the Kalahari Nicola J. Bidwell, Helen Arnold, Alan F. Blackwell, Charlie Nqeisji, |Kun Kunta, and Martin Ujakpa 41. Ethnography of/and Virtual Reality Lisa Messeri Afterword Eric W. Rothenbuhler Appendix Index

Elisabetta Costa is Assistant Professor in Media Studies at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Patricia G. Lange is Associate Professor and Chair of Critical Studies at California College of the Arts, USA. Nell Haynes is a faculty member in the Department of Global Studies at Saint Mary’s College, USA. Jolynna Sinanan is a Lecturer in Social and Digital Anthropology at the University of Manchester, UK.