Quick Guide to the Internet for Cultural Anthropology
Author : Richard Howard Robbins
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 28,86 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Richard Howard Robbins
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 28,86 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Mari Womack
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 11,40 MB
Release : 2001-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780130903020
Author : Anna Cristina Pertierra
Publisher : Polity
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 21,93 MB
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509508464
The field of anthropology took a long time to discover the significance of media in modern culture. In this important new book, Anna Pertierra tells the story of how a field - once firmly associated with the study of esoteric cultures - became a central part of the global study of media and communication. She recounts the rise of anthropological studies of media, the discovery of digital cultures, and the embrace of ethnographic methods by media scholars around the world. Bringing together longstanding debates in sociocultural anthropology with recent innovations in digital cultural research, this book explains how anthropology fits into the story and study of media in the contemporary world. It charts the mutual disinterest and subsequent love affair that has taken place between the fields of anthropology and media studies in order to understand how and why such a transformation has taken place. Moreover, the book shows how the theories and methods of anthropology offer valuable ways to study media from a ground-level perspective and to understand the human experience of media in the digital age. Media Anthropology for the Digital Age will be of interest to students and scholars of media and communication, anthropology, and cultural studies, as well as anyone wanting to understand the use of anthropology across wider cultural debates.
Author : Mark Q. Sutton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 29,28 MB
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000412148
This book offers a concise and accessible overview of cultural anthropology for those coming to the subject for the first time. It introduces key areas of the discipline and touches on its historical developments and applied aspects. As well as traditional topics such as social organization, politics, and economics, the book engages with important contemporary issues including race, gender, sexuality, and colonialism. In a beginner-friendly format, this book is ideal for students of anthropology, as well as for the interested reader as an introduction to the subject.
Author : Tim Ingold
Publisher : Polity
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,6 MB
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509519804
Humanity is at a crossroads. We face mounting inequality, escalating political violence, warring fundamentalisms and an environmental crisis of planetary proportions. How can we fashion a world that has room for everyone, for generations to come? What are the possibilities, in such a world, of collective human life? These are urgent questions, and no discipline is better placed to address them than anthropology. It does so by bringing to bear the wisdom and experience of people everywhere, whatever their backgrounds and walks of life. In this passionately argued book, Tim Ingold relates how a field of study once committed to ideals of progress collapsed amidst the ruins of war and colonialism, only to be reborn as a discipline of hope, destined to take centre stage in debating the most pressing intellectual, ethical and political issues of our time. He shows why anthropology matters to us all. Introducing Polity’s Why It Matters series: In these short and lively books, world-leading thinkers make the case for the importance of their subjects and aim to inspire a new generation of students.
Author : Christine Hine
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 25,94 MB
Release : 2000-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1847876498
Cutting though the exaggerated and fanciful beliefs about the new possibilities of `net life′, Hine produces a distinctive understanding of the significance of the Internet and addresses such questions as: what challenges do the new technologies of communication pose for research methods? Does the Internet force us to rethink traditional categories of `culture′ and `society′? In this compelling and thoughtful book, Hine shows that the Internet is both a site for cultural formations and a cultural artefact which is shaped by people′s understandings and expectations. The Internet requires a new form of ethnography. The author considers the shape of this new ethnography and guides readers through its application in multiple settings.
Author : John A. Courtright
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 29,49 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780767400299
Author : Angela Sadowski
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 16,32 MB
Release : 2000-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780767422956
This brief guide gives students and teachers a reference to the Internet and World Wide Web. It includes sections on finding, using, and documenting sources, source reliability, the Internet and job searches, communicating with e-mail and in virtual communities, and more.
Author : Daniel Miller
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,18 MB
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1910634484
How the World Changed Social Media is the first book in Why We Post, a book series that investigates the findings of anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in communities across the world. This book offers a comparative analysis summarising the results of the research and explores the impact of social media on politics and gender, education and commerce. What is the result of the increased emphasis on visual communication? Are we becoming more individual or more social? Why is public social media so conservative? Why does equality online fail to shift inequality offline? How did memes become the moral police of the internet? Supported by an introduction to the project’s academic framework and theoretical terms that help to account for the findings, the book argues that the only way to appreciate and understand something as intimate and ubiquitous as social media is to be immersed in the lives of the people who post. Only then can we discover how people all around the world have already transformed social media in such unexpected ways and assess the consequences
Author : Colleen Finegan
Publisher :
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 33,11 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Internet in education
ISBN : 9780205309658