[ecrea] Special issue, Australian Journal of Anthropology: "Communication technology and social life: Transformation and continuity, order and disorder"

Marshall, J. P.,&  Notley, T. (2014). Communication technology and social
life: Transformation and continuity, order and disorder. *The Australian
Journal of Anthropology*.

Keywords: anthropology; digital technology; mobile phones; internet; new
technology; ethnography; disorder

Anthropology is now developing and using ethnography to research uses and
experiences of digital communication technology (including mobile phones,
the internet, and software), in and across many different cultures and
societies. Ethnography enables a focus on the complex intertwining of
society, culture and technology allowing us to see how technologies are
being transformed by existing modes of life, while simultaneously having a
‘messy’ influence over those lives, resulting in what are often unexpected
consequences. This special issue discusses the use of mobile phones in
Papua New Guinea and along the borders of Haiti and the Dominican Republic;
the mixture of phone and internet usage in Central Australia and among the
Tongan Diaspora in Melbourne; the use of internet based video translation
practices focused on West Papuan politics; and the disorder produced by
software in work environments in Australia. Collectively, these papers help
us to reimagine ethnography and challenge conventional theorising of
technology by allowing us to discuss the relationships between
communication and power in diverse contexts, opening up opportunities for
us to engage with and explore the significance of both order and disorder
in technologically mediated social processes.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/taja.12084/abstract

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