Media Anthropology Network - Working Papers

The Media Anthropology Network has launched a working papers series in order to create a space for discussion and reflection on the anthropology of media.

Besides posting the working papers on the website, we use the mailing list as an informal 'e-seminar' on them. This allows us to discuss papers over a period of a week after their posting.

Please send your working papers (plus abstracts and your details) to Sigurjon Hafsteinsson
(email: sbh(at)hi.is, please replace the (at) with @).

(Because the papers are in PDF format you need Acrobat Reader to download and read them.)

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Working Papers and e-Seminar Series

• 1-15 September 2008. Jay Ruby (Center for Visual Communication, USA): Towards an anthropological cinema. (PDF, 1,7 MB)
  Abstract
  Comments: Peter Ian Crawford (University of Tromsø)

• 19 May - 2 June 2008. Erkan Saka (Rice University, USA): Blogging as a research tool for ethnographic fieldwork. (PDF, 280 KB)
  Abstract
  Comments: Mary Stevens (University College London) (PDF, 20 KB)
  E-seminar on Blogging as a research tool for ethnographic fieldwork

• 15-29 January 2008. Erica Baffelli (University of Otago, New Zealand): Media and religion in Japan: the Aum affair as a turning point. (PDF, 580 KB)
  Abstract
  Comments: Blai Guarné (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona) (PDF, 56 KB)
  E-seminar on Media and religion in Japan (PDF, 554 KB)

• 20 November - 4 December 2007. Ursula Rao (University of New South Wales): Re-writing politics: Consumerist messages and the emergence of a new style of political reporting in India. (PDF, 140 KB)
  Abstract
  Comments: Anna Horolets (Warsaw School of Social Psychology) (PDF, 36 KB)
  E-seminar on Re-writing politics (PDF, 172 KB)

• 18 September - 2 October 2007. Mark Pedelty (University of Minnesota): Musical news: popular music in political movements. (PDF, 260 KB)
  Abstract
  Comments: Herman Wasserman (Newcastle University) (PDF, 24 KB)
  E-seminar on Musical news (PDF, 220 KB)

• 12-26 June 2007. Kerstin Andersson (Gothenburg University): The online Durga. (PDF, 132 KB)
  Abstract
  Comments: Matthijs van den Bos (University of Amsterdam) (PDF, 24 KB)
  E-seminar on The online Durga (PDF, 460 KB)

• 22-29 May 2007. Carsten Wergin (University of Bremen): World music: A medium for unity and difference? (PDF, 190 KB)
  Abstract
  Comments: Joanne Haynes (Bristol University) (PDF, 20 KB)
  E-seminar on World music: A medium for unity and difference? (PDF, 64 KB)

• 3-10 May 2007. Faye Ginsburg (New York University): Rethinking the digital age. (PDF, 192 KB)
  Comments: Maximilian C. Forte (Concordia University) (PDF, 28 KB)
  E-seminar on Rethinking the digital age (PDF, 150 KB)

• 27 February - 6 March 2007. Matthew Durington (Towson University): Moral panics in suburban Texas. (PDF, 148 KB)
  Abstract
  Comments: Chas Critcher (Sheffield Hallam University) (PDF, 100 KB)
  E-seminar on Moral panics in suburban Texas (PDF, 176 KB)

• 23-30 January 2007. Urban Larssen (Stockholm University): Imagining a World of Free Expression in the Making: Romania and Global Media Development. (PDF, 100 KB)
  Comments: Elizabeth Bird (University of South Florida) (PDF, 20 KB)
  E-seminar on Imagining a World of Free Expression in the Making (PDF, 260 KB)

• 28 November - 5 December 2006. Bart Barendregt (Leiden University): Between m-governance and mobile anarchies: Pornoaksi and the fear of new media in present day Indonesia. (PDF, 120 KB)
  Comments: Heather Horst (University of California, Berkeley) (PDF, 24 KB)
  E-seminar on Between m-governance and mobile anarchies (PDF, 212 KB)

• 24-31 October 2006. Gabriela Vargas-Cetina (Autonomous University of Yucatan): Very much a midnight child: software and the translation of times at the University. (PDF, 100 KB)
  Comments: David Hakken (Indiana University) (PDF, 24 KB)
  E-seminar on Very much a midnight child (PDF, 190 KB)

• 20-27 June 2006. Sebastian Ureta (Catholic University of Chile): Locating the TV: Television placement and the reconfiguration of space in low-income homes in Santiago, Chile. (PDF, 490 KB)
  Comments: Jo Helle-Valle (National Institute for Consumer Research, Oslo) (PDF, 24 KB)
  E-seminar on Locating the TV (PDF, 130 KB)

• 23-30 May 2006. Thomas Hylland Eriksen (University of Oslo): Nations in cyberspace: nationalism and social communication. (PDF, 150 KB)
  Comments: Mirca Madianou (University of Cambridge) (PDF, 92 KB)
  E-seminar on Nations in cyberspace (PDF, 350 KB)

• 21-28 February 2006. Katrien Pype (Catholic University Leuven): "I do not want to marry my ngatiul." Mass-mediated alliances between youngsters and Neo-Pentecostalism in Kinshasa. (PDF, 240 KB)
  Comments: Kelly Askew (University of Michigan) (PDF, 82 KB)
  E-seminar on "I do not want to marry my ngatiul" (PDF, 208 KB)

• 17-24 January 2006. Brian Street (King's College London): Autonomous and ideological models of literacy: approaches from New Literacy Studies. (PDF 207 KB)
  Comments: Dorle Dracklé (University of Bremen) (PDF, 76 KB)
  E-seminar on Autonomous and ideological models of literacy (PDF, 239 KB)

• 8-15 November 2005. Francisco Osorio (University of Chile): Why is interest in mass media anthropology growing? (PDF 160 KB)
  Comments: Mark Peterson (Miami University) (PDF, 122 KB)
  E-seminar on Why is interest in mass media anthropology growing? (PDF, 410 KB)

• 27 September - 4 October 2005. E-seminar on Researching the internet with an introductory statement by Birgit Bräuchler (University of Munich) (PDFs 320 KB, 150 KB)
  Comments: Christine Hine (University of Surrey) (PDF, 89 KB)
  E-seminar on Researching the internet (PDF, 320 KB)

• 28 June - 5 July 2005. Elisenda Ardèvol (UOC Catalonia): Catálogo de sueños: Las relaciones personales en Internet como producto de consumo. (PDF, 1,4 MB)
  English version: Dream gallery: online dating as a commodity. (PDF, 1,2 MB)
  Comments: Kyra Landzelius (Gothenburg University) (PDF, 117 KB)
  E-seminar on Dream gallery: online dating as a commodity (PDF, 310 KB)

• 17-24 May 2005. Mihai Coman (University of Bucharest): Media anthropology: an overview. (PDF, 260 KB)
  Comments: Debra Spitulnik (Emory University) (PDF, 77 KB)
  E-seminar on Media anthropology: an overview (PDF, 300 KB)

• 19-26 April 2005. John Postill (University of Staffordshire): Media anthropology in a world of states. (PDF, 370 KB)
  Comments: Faye Ginsburg (New York University) (PDF, 95 KB)
  E-seminar on Media anthropology in a world of states (PDF, 310 KB)

• 22 February - 1 March 2005. Sarah Pink (Loughborough University) and Ana Martinez Perez (University Rey Juan Carlos, Fuenlabrada): A fitting 'social model': culturally locating telemadres.com. (PDF, 260 KB)
  Comments: Pille Runnel (Estonian National Museum / University of Tartu) (PDF, 80 KB)
  E-seminar on A fitting 'social model' (PDF, 240 KB)

• 11-18 January 2005. Jonathan Skinner (Queen's University Belfast): At the electronic Evergreen: A computer-mediated ethnography of a newsgroup from Montserrat and afar. (PDF, 60 KB)
  Comments: Birgit Bräuchler (University of Munich) (PDF, 85 KB)
  E-seminar on At the electronic Evergreen (PDF, 200 KB)

• 23-30 November 2004. Katarina Graffman (University of Uppsala): The cruel masses: How producers at a Swedish commercial television production company construct their viewers. (PDF, 80 KB)
  Comments: Mark Hobart (SOAS) (PDF, 20 KB)
  E-seminar on The cruel masses (PDF, 150 KB)