{"id":801,"date":"2016-08-08T15:51:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T13:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/?p=801"},"modified":"2016-12-07T12:08:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T11:08:33","slug":"report-on-easa-media-anthropology-network-activities-at-the-14th-easa-biennial-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/report-on-easa-media-anthropology-network-activities-at-the-14th-easa-biennial-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Media Anthropology Network activities at the 14th EASA Biennial Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Report on EASA Media Anthropology Network activities at the 14th EASA Biennial Conference<\/a>, Milan, 20-23 July 2016
\nby Philipp Budka
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\n1) EASA Media Anthropology Network Meeting (21 July 2016)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Philipp Budka introduced the network, its history and its activities to a group of about 15 people, some new and some regular participants to the network’s meetings at EASA conferences.
\nThe network, which was established in 2004, has particularly become known for its e-seminars (57 e-seminars on different working papers, projects and texts; the most recent e-seminar was a joint project with AAA’s Digital Anthropology Group and the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology & Computing, http:\/\/www.media-anthropology.net\/index.php\/e-seminars<\/a>) and its interdisciplinary mailing list with more than 1500 subscribers (http:\/\/www.media-anthropology.net\/index.php\/mailing-list<\/a>).
\nIn addition, Budka also referred to the network’s offline activities, such as the workshop \u201cTheorising Media and Conflict\u201d (Vienna, October 2015). Many of these workshops resulted in publication projects (e.g. Br\u00e4uchler & Postill 2010).
\nThere have been first talks with representatives of the EASA Anthropology and Mobility Network (ANTHROMOB) in Milan to organise a joint workshop in the future.
\nThe website of the network (http:\/\/www.media-anthropology.net\/<\/a>), which currently runs in reduced mode due to technical issues and the need for revision and re-organisation of structure and content, contains (1) e-seminar related documents under a Creative Commons Licence and free to use, (2) information about the mailing list and (3) a list of network participants.
\nFuture steps for the Media Anthropology Network will first be discussed among members of the network’s coordination team to be then debated among all interested network members via the mailing list.<\/p>\n

Reference
\nBr\u00e4uchler, B., Postill, J. (eds). 2010. Theorising media and practice. Oxford: Berghahn.<\/p>\n

2) EASA Media Anthropology Network Panel (23 July 2016)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The EASA Media Anthropology Network\u2019s panel \u201cMedia anthropology\u2019s legacies and concerns\u201d aimed for putting fundamental concerns of media anthropology back into the centre of attention. Eight papers were presented by nine authors. Each presentation was followed by a brief discussion.<\/p>\n

The panel’s first paper by Alberto Micali & Nicol\u00f2 Pasqualini introduced the concept of \u201canthropomediality\u201c by putting materiality and ecology into the centre of a media (anthropology) research focus.
\nJohn McManus then proposed that a \u201cludic turn\u201d in media anthropology \u2013 that is re-focusing on play and playfulness in relation to media \u2013 could contribute decisively to the sub-field’s future development.
\nIn the third paper, Philipp Budka reflected on selected issues of media anthropology\u2019s concerns to identify and briefly discuss ethnography and context as two key features of the sub-field.
\nSince Erkan Saka was not able to attend the conference due to Turkey’s travel restrictions, he gave a short presentation via Skype discussing the intersection of anthropology\u2019s disciplinary crisis and the emergence of internet studies.
\nThe panel’s fifth paper by Balazs Boross discussed aspects of television culture by investigating the \u201cmyth of participation\u201d in TV shows and the making of media rituals.
\nHeloisa Buarque de Almeida discussed in her paper the changing politics of meaning of gender violence in relation to Brazilian TV shows.
\nIn the seventh paper, Richard MacDonald examined through an ethnographic case study of outdoor cinemas in Thailand people’s relations to screens as well as the sites and practices of this screenculture.
\nThe panel’s last paper was given by Jonathan Larcher and discussed the politics of digital visual culture and aspects of the culturally diverse uses and forms of appropriation of visual material in Romania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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