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    Reimagining Indigenous Futures Through Bolivian Lucha Libre

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  • The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology

    Series series Routledge Anthropology Handbooks
    The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology provides a broad overview of the widening and flourishing area of media anthropology, and outlines key themes, debates, and emerging directions.The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology draws together the work of scholars from across the globe, with rich ethnographic studies that address a wide range of media practices and forms. Comprising 41 ... Read more

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    Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studiesKeywords for Media Studies introduces and aims to advance the field of critical media studies by tracing, defining, and problematizing its established and emergent terminology. The book historicizes thinking about media and society, ... Read more

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    This critical reassessment of digital proliferation calls for a new approach to technology that includes marginalized, non-western communities.In the digital age, technology has shrunk the physical world into a "global village," where we all seem to be connected as an online community. Yet while we think of platforms such as Twitter and Facebook as open and accessible to all, they are in fact ... Read more

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  • Digital Media and Society

    *What does it mean to live in a digital society?Does social media empower political activism?How do we form and express our identity in a digital age?Do algorithms and search engine results have a social role?How have software and hardware transformed how we interact with each other?*In the early 21st century, digital media and the social have become irreversibly intertwined. In this cutting-edge ... Read more

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  • Digital Ethnography

    Principles and Practice

    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

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  • Digital Sociology

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    Digital technologies, digital media, and mobile technologies now shape the experience of everyday life in the Western world, yet the way our quotidian lives are enmeshed with these technologies is far from clearly understood.Through studies of the digital everyday, sociologists are beginning to reinvigorate the sociological imagination in light of digitization. Chapters in this Byte cover topics ... Read more

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    Caring For (Big) Data?

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
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