media/anthropology: Three working assumptions about social media and...
Reworked notes following presentation at the Networking Democracy symposium, Cluj-Napoca, 25-27 June 2010. Many thanks to the organisers for a terrific event! This conference comes for me at point of...
View Articlemedia/anthropology: Barcelona in early July 2010: pre-field notes
I’ve just got back to England from a second brief trip to Barcelona to prepare the family move there prior to the start of fieldwork from September. A few sketchy notes for future reference and...
View Articlemedia/anthropology: Power and culture
Power and culture are mutually constitutive, but power has the upper hand. Example: sovereign states today, with the power to monopolise the legitimate production of culture within their borders.
View Articlemedia/anthropology: Is YouTube a world heritage site?
When millions of users around the globe (admittedly, only those with access to the Web and digital skills) upload millions of videos onto YouTube, are they jointly creating a world heritage site? Or...
View Articlemedia/anthropology: Online discussion on Catalan nationalism
Highlights from an ongoing forum thread triggered by a piece on Quebec by Daniel Estulin. The quotes below capture, among other things, some of the issues preoccupying people who follow with interest...
View Articlemedia/anthropology: An eventful fortnight for Catalonia
Saturday, 10 July 2010: huge demonstration in Barcelona against a ruling of Spain’s Constitutional Court limiting Catalonia’s autonomy. Sunday, 11 July 2010: Catalan flags replaced by Spanish flags on...
View Articlemedia/anthropology: Is there such a thing as a personal field?
We’ve all heard by now of personal (or ego-centred) networks and of social fields (say, the field of acupuncture in Oslo, or the field of sociology in France), but what about personal fields, i.e. an...
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