The Media Anthropology Network, European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), aims to foster international discussion and collaboration around the anthropology of media. The network also hopes to contribute to the theoretical and empirical development of this anthropological subfield.
Although many of our exchanges take place via our mailing list, we also meet regularly offline. Our first biennial general meeting took place during the 8th EASA conference, held in Vienna in September 2004. Our most recent network meetings took place at the 16th EASA conference online in July 2020 and in Belfast in July 2022 at EASA’s 17th conference. All EASA members are welcome at these network meetings and we are particularly keen to hear from people who wish to play an active role in the network.
We have also organised a number of workshops and panels over the years at locations such as Barcelona (2024), Copenhagen (2023), Belfast (2022), Munich (2019), Milan (2016) and Vienna (2015). Our most recent panel at an EASA conference was in July 2024 and focused on the anthropology of place in a digital world.
Join the network
For further details or to join the network, please contact the network convenors.
Present a paper at a Network e-seminar
Since 2004, the Media Anthropology Network has been organizing e-seminars on media anthropology-related papers (e.g., working papers and already published material) and events (e.g., follow-up seminars on workshops and panels). In these seminars, anthropologists and media and communication scholars have been discussing a diversity of topics via the network’s mailing list. All e-seminar-related documents are openly available here.
If you are interested in contributing a paper, please email John Postill (jrpostill(at)gmail.com) or any other co-convenors to explain your idea for the paper and negotiate a free slot on the e-seminar schedule.
Support the EASA Media Anthropology Network
If you’d like to support the network, please email one of the network’s convenors (see here) who will get back to you to discuss how you want to work with us.