EASA Media Anthropology Network E-Seminars
Since 2004, the Media Anthropology Network has been organising e-seminars on (working) papers via its mailing list in order to create a space for discussion and reflection on the anthropology of media. To participate to the e-seminars you have to subscribe to the Network's mailing list.
If you are interested to contribute a paper, please contact the Network's e-seminar chair Nina Grønlykke Mollerup.
73. BOOK SEMINAR: Introduction to The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology
Book: Elisabetta Costa (University of Antwerp), Patricia G. Lange (California College of the Arts), Nell Haynes (St. Mary's College), Jolynna Sinanan (University of Manchester)
Comments: John Postill (RMIT University)
E-seminar
November 2023
72. The Cunning Present: On the Siege of Yarmouk, the torn document, and the tragicomic
Paper: Stefan Tarnowski (University of Copenhagen/Cambridge University)
Comments: Helga Tawil-Souri (New York University)
E-seminar
September-October 2023
71. BOOK SEMINAR: Digital Unsettling: Decoloniality and Dispossession in the Age of Social Media
Book: Sahana Udupa (LMU Munich) and Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan (New York University)
The full book is open access and is downloadable here.
Comments: Elena Gonzalez-Polledo (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Vita Peacock (King’s College London)
E-seminar
May 2023
70. On digital avoidance: updating a classic social practice in an era of (over)sharing. Ethnographic notes from Kinshasa
Paper: Katrien Pype (KU Leuven University)
Comments: Shola Adenekan (Ghent University), Sahana Udupa (LMU Munich)
E-seminar
October 2022
69. Investigating scientific practice with ethnographic film
Paper: Sanderien Verstappen & Sarah R. Davies (University of Vienna)
Comments: Ildikó Plájás (Leiden University & University of Amsterdam)
E-seminar
Jun 2022
68. Media migration
Paper: Patricia G. Lange (California College of the Arts)
Comments: Philipp Budka (University of Vienna)
E-seminar
Apr 2022
67. As it were: Narrative Struggles, Historiopraxy and the Stakes of the Future in the Documentation of the Syrian Uprising
Paper: Andreas Bandak (University of Copenhagen)
Comments: Christa Salamandra (City University of New York)
E-seminar
Nov 2021
66. The effects of media practices
Paper: John Postill (RMIT University, Melbourne)
Comments: Edgar Gomez Cruz (University of New South Wales, Sydney)
E-seminar
Feb 2021
65. Decoloniality and extreme speech
Paper: Sahana Udupa (LMU Munich)
Comments: Sindre Bangstad (KIFO, Oslo, Norway) and Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan (Goldsmiths, University of London)
E-seminar
June 2020
64. Mobile technology, mediation and social change in rural India
Paper: Sirpa Tenhunen (University of Helsinki)
Comments: Mirjam de Brujin (Leiden University)
E-seminar
Feb 2019
63. The digital turn: New directions in media anthropology
Paper: Sahana Udupa (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich), Elisabetta Costa (University of Groningen) & Philipp Budka (University of Vienna)
Comments: Christoph Bareither (Humboldt University of Berlin), Anna Cristina Pertierra (Western Sydney University) & Paula Uimonen (Stockholm University)
E-seminar
Oct 2018
62. Parenting for a digital future
Paper: Sonia Livingstone & Alicia Blum-Ross (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Comments: Veronica Barassi (Goldsmiths, University of London)
E-seminar
March 2018
61. Media and mobility (In collaboration with EASA's Anthropology and Mobility Network)
Opening Statements: Rebecca Carlson (Tokyo Medical and Dental University), Jamie Coates (Sophia University), Jordan Kraemer (New York University) and Noel B. Salazar (Co-convenor EASA Anthropology and Mobility Network, University of Leuven)
E-seminar
Nov 2017
60. Social media as practices: An ethnographic critique of ‘affordances’ and ‘context collapse’
Paper: Elisabetta Costa (University of Groningen)
Comments: Christian Pentzold (University of Bremen)
E-seminar
May 2017
59. ‘Being there’, phone in hand: Thick presence and ethnographic fieldwork with media
Paper: Nina Grønlykke Mollerup (Independent Researcher, Denmark)
Comments: Veronica Barassi (Goldsmiths, University of London)
E-seminar
Feb 2017
58. On media practices and the radical imagination
Paper: Alex Khasnabish (Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada)
Comments: John Postill (RMIT University, Melbourne)
E-seminar
Nov 2016
57. E-seminar on Facebook as research field and research platform. In collaboration with AAA's Digital Anthropology Group (DANG) and the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology & Computing (CASTAC)
Opening Statements: Philipp Budka (University of Vienna), Jordan Kraemer (Wesleyan University), Martin Slama (Austrian Academy of Sciences) and Sydney Yeager (Southern Methodist University)
E-seminar
July 2016
56. Pudding-can anthropology teach us how to use media?
Paper: Daniel Miller, Elisabetta Costa, Laura Haapio-Kirk, Nell Haynes, Tom McDonald, Razvan Nicolescu, Jolynna Sinanan, Juliano Spyer, Shriram Venkatraman and Xinyuan Wang ("Why We Post" Team, University College London)
Comments: Erin Taylor (Instituto de Ciencias Sociais, Universidad de Lisboa)
E-seminar
May 2016
55. "It’s like a family!"-the unity and community of journalists. On connections between newsrooms and how journalists share a community of practice
Paper: Line Hassall Thomsen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Comments: Chris Paterson (Leeds University)
E-seminar
Mar 2016
54. Notes on workshop "Theorising Media and Conflict"
Paper: John Postill (RMIT University, Melbourne)
Comments: Birgit Bräuchler (Monash University, Melbourne)
E-seminar
Nov 2015
53. Negotiating land tenure in transborder media spaces: Ayuujk People’s videomaking between Mexico and the USA
Paper: Ingrid Kummels (Free University Berlin)
Comments: Gisela Canepa (PUCP Lima, Peru)
E-seminar
Oct 2015
52. Abusive exchange on social media: The politics of online Gaali cultures in India
Paper: Sahana Udupa (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany)
Comments: Nell Haynes (University College London/Universidad Católica de Chile)
E-seminar
July 2015
51. Assembling blog affordances: Theorising affordances and agency in new media
Paper: Julian Hopkins (Monash University, Malaysia)
Comments: Adolfo Estalella (University of Manchester/Open University of Catalonia)
E-seminar
June 2015
50. Energy and digital living. (Website)
Paper: Sarah Pink (RMIT University, Melbourne)
Comments: Mark Pedelty (University of Minnesota)
E-seminar
Mar 2015
49. Producing ethics [for the digital near-future]
Paper: Annette Markham (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Comments: Adam Fish (Lancaster University, UK)
E-seminar
Dec 2014
48. E-seminar on 10th Anniversary of the EASA Media Anthropology Network
47. Participating in YouTubing practice: Towards a practice perspective to understand user participation motivations
Paper: Jie Gu (Communication University of China)
Comments: Ursula Rao (University of Leipzig)
E-seminar
July 2014
46. Studying youth in the Media City: Multi-sited reflections
Paper: Johanna Sumiala (University of Helsinki), Titus Hjelm (University College London), Minttu Tikka (University of Helsinki), Leena Suurpää (Finnish Youth Research Society, Helsinki)
Comments: John Postill (RMIT University, Melbourne)
E-seminar
Mar 2014
45. E-seminar on Theorising media and change with an opening by John Postill (RMIT University, Melbourne)
44. "Accept no limitations": Expressions of diasporic identity in Nigerian Idol
Paper: Tess Conner (Independent)
Comments: Stephen M. Lyon (Durham University, UK)
E-seminar
Jul 2013
43. "Cry your own cry": On popular visual media of life experiences in Ghanaian mottonyms
Paper: Joseph Oduro-Frimpong (Southern Illinois University)
Comments: Jerry Eades (Asia Pacific University, Japan)
E-seminar
Apr 2013
42. Media and social changing since 1979: Towards a diachronic ethnography of media and actual social changes
Paper: John Postill (RMIT)
Comments: Brian Larkin (Columbia University)
E-seminar
Dec 2012
41. Webcam and the theory of attainment
Paper: Daniel Miller and Jolynna Sinanan (UCL)
Comments: Daniel Taghioff (Independent)
E-seminar
Oct 2012
40. Loose ends: Lines, media and social change
Paper: Shaun Moores (University of Sunderland)
Comments: Jens Kjaerulff (Independent)
E-seminar
Jul 2012
39. Friedrich Kittler-a media anthropology without the Man?
Paper: Jussi Parikka (University of Southampton)
Comments: Gabriela Vargas-Cetina (Brown University / Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan)
E-seminar
Mar 2012
38. From cyber to digital anthropology to an anthropology of the contemporary?
Paper: Philipp Budka (University of Vienna)
Comments: Alexander Knorr (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich)
E-seminar
Dec 2011
37. Names U ma puce: Multilingual texting in Senegal
Paper: Kristin Vold Lexander (University of Oslo)
Comments: Ken Banks (kiwanja.net)
E-seminar
May 2011
36. New leisure forum for old leisure practices: Online and offline interaction and presentations of self in Figueres, Spain
Paper: Francine Barone (University of Kent)
Comments: Valentina Gueorguieva (University of Sofia)
E-seminar
Mar 2011
35. Sakawa: On occultic rituals and cyberfraud in Ghanaian popular cinema
Paper: Joseph Oduro-Frimpong (Southern Illinois University Carbondale)
Comments: Tilo Grätz (Halle University & Free University Berlin)
E-seminar
Feb 2011
34. Indexicality, iconicity and language ideology in the Urdu news revival
Paper: Mark Allen Peterson (Miami University)
Comments: Ursula Rao (University of New South Wales)
E-seminar
Dec 2010
33. The mutual co-construction of online and onground in Cyborganic: Making an ethnography of networked social media speak to challenges of the posthuman
Paper: Jenny Cool (University of Southern California)
Comments: Antoni Roig Telo (Open University of Catalonia)
E-seminar
Jul 2010
32. Migrant workers’ use of ICTs for interpersonal communication-The experience of female domestic workers in Singapore
Paper: Sun Sun Lim and Minu Thomas (National University of Singapore)
Comments: Mirca Madianou (University of Cambridge)
E-seminar
May 2010
31. Akram's Reproduction Machine: Reimagining Lebanese resistance
Paper: Mark Westmoreland (American University in Cairo)
Comments: Kirsten Scheid (American University of Beirut)
E-seminar
Mar 2010
30. Not just spooky: The collaborative aesthetics of supernatural fandom on Runet
Paper: Sudha Rajagopalan (Utrecht University)
Comments: Catherine Tosenberger (University of Winnipeg)
E-seminar
Dec 2009
29. Media and belonging to the nation in Sabah, East Malaysia
Paper: Fausto Barlocco (Loughborough University)
Comments: Arvind Rajagopal (New York University)
E-seminar
Sep 2009
28. From audiotapes to videoblogs: The delocalization of authority in Islam
Paper: Nabil Echchaibi (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Comments: Emilio Spadola (Colgate University)
E-seminar
May 2009
27. Getting involved: Independence and recursivity in the journalistic field
Paper: Jay Gabriel (independent scholar, USA)
Comments: Per Ståhlberg (independent scholar, Sweden)
E-seminar
Mar 2009
26. Family talk about media portrayals of immigrants
Paper: Ulrika Sjöberg and Ingegerd Rydin (Halmstad University, Sweden)
Comments: Kira Kosnick (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main)
E-seminar
Jan 2009
25. Media anthropology as a field of interdisciplinary contact
Paper: Eric Rothenbuhler (Texas A & M University)
Comments: Ariel Heryanto (University of Melbourne)
E-seminar
Nov 2008
24. Towards an anthropological cinema
Paper: Jay Ruby (Center for Visual Communication, USA)
Comments: Peter Ian Crawford (University of Tromsø)
E-seminar
Sep 2008
23. Blogging as a research tool for ethnographic fieldwork
Paper: Erkan Saka (Rice University, USA)
Comments: Mary Stevens (University College London)
E-seminar
Jun 2008
22. Media and religion in Japan: The Aum affair as a turning point
Paper: Erica Baffelli (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Comments: Blai Guarné (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona)
E-seminar
Jan 2008
21. Re-writing politics: Consumerist messages and the emergence of a new style of political reporting in India
Paper: Ursula Rao (University of New South Wales)
Comments: Anna Horolets (Warsaw School of Social Psychology)
E-seminar
Dec 2007
20. Musical news: Popular music in political movements
Paper: Mark Pedelty (University of Minnesota)
Comments: Herman Wasserman (Newcastle University)
E-seminar
Oct 2007
19. The online Durga
Paper: Kerstin Andersson (Gothenburg University)
Comments: Matthijs van den Bos (University of Amsterdam)
E-seminar
June 2007
18. World music: A medium for unity and difference?
Paper: Carsten Wergin (University of Bremen)
Comments: Joanne Haynes (Bristol University)
E-seminar
May 2007
17. Rethinking the digital age
Paper: Faye Ginsburg (New York University)
Comments: Maximilian C. Forte (Concordia University)
E-seminar
May 2007
16. Moral panics in suburban Texas
Paper: Matthew Durington (Towson University)
Comments: Chas Critcher (Sheffield Hallam University)
E-seminar
Mar 2007
15. Imagining a world of free expression in the making: Romania and global media development
Paper: Urban Larssen (Stockholm University)
Comments: Elizabeth Bird (University of South Florida)
E-seminar
Jan 2007
14. Between m-governance and mobile anarchies: Pornoaksi and the fear of new media in present day Indonesia
Paper: Bart Barendregt (Leiden University)
Comments: Heather Horst (University of California, Berkeley)
E-seminar
Dec 2006
13. Very much a midnight child: Software and the translation of times at the university
Paper: Gabriela Vargas-Cetina (Autonomous University of Yucatan)
Comments: David Hakken (Indiana University)
E-seminar
Oct 2006
12. Locating the TV: Television placement and the reconfiguration of space in low-income homes in Santiago, Chile
Paper: Sebastian Ureta (Catholic University of Chile)
Comments: Jo Helle-Valle (National Institute for Consumer Research, Oslo)
E-seminar
June 2006
11. Nations in cyberspace: Nationalism and social communication
Paper: Thomas Hylland Eriksen (University of Oslo)
Comments: Mirca Madianou (University of Cambridge)
E-seminar
May 2006
10. "I do not want to marry my ngatiul." Mass-mediated alliances between youngsters and Neo-Pentecostalism in Kinshasa
Paper: Katrien Pype (Catholic University Leuven)
Comments: Kelly Askew (University of Michigan)
E-seminar
Feb 2006
9. Autonomous and ideological models of literacy: Approaches from new literacy studies
Paper: Brian Street (King's College London)
Comments: Dorle Dracklé (University of Bremen)
E-seminar
Jan 2006
8. Why is interest in mass media anthropology growing?
Paper: Francisco Osorio (University of Chile)
Comments: Mark Peterson (Miami University)
E-seminar
Nov 2005
7. Researching the internet with an introductory statement by Birgit Bräuchler (University of Munich)
E-seminar
Comments: Christine Hine (University of Surrey)
Oct 2005
6. Catálogo de sueños: Las relaciones personales en Internet como producto de consumo)
Paper: Elisenda Ardèvol (UOC Catalonia)
English version: Dream gallery: Online dating as a commodity
Comments: Kyra Landzelius (Gothenburg University)
E-seminar
July 2005
5. Media anthropology: An overview)
Paper: Mihai Coman (University of Bucharest)
Comments: Debra Spitulnik (Emory University)
E-seminar
May 2005
4. Media anthropology in a world of states)
Paper: John Postill (University of Staffordshire)
Comments: Faye Ginsburg (New York University)
E-seminar
Apr 2005
3. A fitting 'social model': Culturally locating telemadres.com)
Paper: Sarah Pink (Loughborough University) and Ana Martinez Perez (University Rey Juan Carlos, Fuenlabrada)
Comments: Pille Runnel (Estonian National Museum / University of Tartu)
E-seminar
Mar 2005
2. At the electronic evergreen: A computer-mediated ethnography of a newsgroup from Montserrat and afar)
Paper: Jonathan Skinner (Queen's University Belfast)
Comments: Birgit Bräuchler (University of Munich)
E-seminar
Jan 2005
1. The cruel masses: How producers at a Swedish commercial television production company construct their viewers)
Paper: Katarina Graffman (University of Uppsala)
Comments: Mark Hobart (SOAS)
E-seminar
Nov 2004
