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  • The Cell Phone

    An Anthropology of Communication

    by Heather Horst, Daniel Miller ...
    Few modern innovations have spread quite so quickly as the cell phone. This technology has transformed communication throughout the world. Mobile telecommunications have had a dramatic effect in many regions, but perhaps nowhere more than for low-income populations in countries such as Jamaica, where in the last few years many people have moved from no phone to cell phone. This book reveals the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Digital Ethnography

    Principles and Practice

    by Sarah Pink, Heather Horst, John Postill, Larissa Hjorth, Tania Lewis, Jo Tacchi ...
    This sharp, innovative book champions the rising significance of ethnographic research on the use of digital resources around the world. It contextualises digital and pre-digital ethnographic research and demonstrates how the methodological, practical and theoretical dimensions are increasingly intertwined.Digital ethnography is central to our understanding of the social world; it can shape ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Digital Media Practices in Households

    Kinship through Data

    by Larissa Hjorth, Kana Ohashi, Jolynna Sinanan, Heather Horst, Sarah Pink ...
    Series series MediaMatters
    How are intergenerational relationships playing out in and through the digital rhythms of the household? Through extensive fieldwork in Tokyo, Shanghai and Melbourne, this book ethnographically explores how households are being understood, articulated and defined by digital media practices. It investigates the rise of self-tracking, quantified self and informal practices of care at distance as ... Read more

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  • Digital Anthropology

    Edited by Heather A. Horst, Daniel Miller ...
    Anthropology has two main tasks: to understand what it is to be human and to examine how humanity is manifested differently in the diversity of culture. These tasks have gained new impetus from the extraordinary rise of the digital. This book brings together several key anthropologists working with digital culture to demonstrate just how productive an anthropological approach to the digital has ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Location Technologies in International Context

    Edited by Rowan Wilken, Gerard Goggin, Heather Horst ...
    Series series Internationalizing Media Studies
    Location Technologies in International Context offers the first international account of location technologies (in an expanded sense) and brings together a range of contributions on these technologies and their various cultures of use within the Global South.This collection asks: How, within the Global South, do location technologies differ across national markets, geo-linguistic communities and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography

    Edited by Larissa Hjorth, Heather Horst, Anne Galloway, Genevieve Bell ...
    Series series Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions
    With the increase of digital and networked media in everyday life, researchers have increasingly turned their gaze to the symbolic and cultural elements of technologies. From studying online game communities, locative and social media to YouTube and mobile media, ethnographic approaches to digital and networked media have helped to elucidate the dynamic cultural and social dimensions of media ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Making Things and Drawing Boundaries

    Experiments in the Digital Humanities

    Edited by Jentery Sayers ...
    Series series Debates in the Digital Humanities
    In Making Things and Drawing Boundaries, critical theory and cultural practice meet creativity, collaboration, and experimentation with physical materials as never before. Foregrounding the interdisciplinary character of experimental methods and hands-on research, this collection asks what it means to “make” things in the humanities. How is humanities research manifested in hand and on screen ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces

    Locational Privacy, Control, and Urban Sociability

    by Adriana de Souza e Silva, Jordan Frith ...
    Mobile phones are no longer what they used to be. Not only can users connect to the Internet anywhere and anytime, they can also use their devices to map their precise geographic coordinates – and access location-specific information like restaurant reviews, historical information, and locations of other people nearby. The proliferation of location-aware mobile technologies calls for a new ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Digital Bodies

    Edited by Jessie Daniels, Karen Gregory, Tressie McMillan Cottom ...
    In the early days of the internet, we assumed that digital technologies would allow us to escape embodiment and its accompanying entanglements. Yet now our embodied selves are often targeted for abuse and harassment online. As we move into the Internet of Things, the digital is increasingly on and in our bodies. The pieces in this Byte raise important questions about what it means to bring our ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Dialogues on Mobile Communication

    by Adriana de Souza e Silva ...
    Series series Changing Mobilities
    In this book, top scholars in the field of mobile communication discuss the major issues related to the use of mobile phones in today’s society, such as the tension between private and public, youth mobile culture, creative appropriations of mobile devices, and mobile methods. Each chapter unfolds as an open dialogue between scholars and graduate students of communication. They contain an ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Hyperconnectivity and Its Discontents

    by Rogers Brubaker ...
    Digital hyperconnectivity is a defining fact of our time. The Silicon Valley dream of universal connection – the dream of connecting everyone and everything to everyone and everything else, everywhere and all the time – is rapidly becoming a reality. In this wide-ranging and sharply argued book, Rogers Brubaker develops an original interpretive account of the pervasive and unsettling changes ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Foundations of Mobile Media Studies

    Essential Texts on the Formation of a Field

    Edited by Jason Farman ...
    Series series Routledge Recommends
    Foundations of Mobile Media Studies gathers some of the most important texts in this emerging field, offering readers key approaches to understanding our moment and our media. The impact of mobile media is far reaching and this book discusses topics such as human intimacy, social space, political uprisings, labor, mobile phones in the developing world, gender, the mobile device’s impact on reading ... Read more

    $70.99 USD