[ecrea] CfP: EASA 2016 Media Anthropology Network Panel

The EASA Media Anthropology Network is organising a panel entitled
*"Media anthropology's legacies and concerns"* at the 14th European
Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) conference in Milan (20-23
July, 2016). Please find the detailed call for papers below. To propose
a paper, please navigate to
http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4286 *Deadline
for paper proposal submissions is February 15th.
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Media anthropology's legacies and concerns
(Media Anthropology Network)

Convenors
Philipp Budka (University of Vienna)
John Postill (RMIT University Melbourne)
Elisenda Ardevol (UOC, Barcelona)

In line with the theme of the 14th EASA conference the EASA Media
Anthropology Network panel seeks to put fundamental concerns of media
anthropology back into the centre of attention. Central themes of media
anthropology have already been identified and discussed in earlier
works: e.g. the mediation of power and conflict, media related forms of
production and consumption, the relationship between media and religion,
and the mediation of knowledge and forms of expression (e.g. Askew &
Wilk 2002, Ginsburg et al. 2002, Peterson 2003, Rothenbuhler & Coman
2005). These topics can be connected to questions about hierarchies,
power relationships, norms and political agency in media contexts; the
materiality of media (technologies), exchange and reciprocity, media
work; media rituals and the ritualization of media practices and events;
the construction of histories and traditions in relation to media
practices and the meanings of media communication for oral culture(s).

By (re-)focusing on such topics in a contemporary context, this panel
invites contributions also to discuss broader questions. What has been
“the point of media anthropology” as an anthropological subdiscipline
and as an interdisciplinary field of research (Postill & Peterson 2009)?
What are media anthropology's legacies so far and what are its
historical roots? What role does ethnography play in the anthropology of
media and how has this relationship changed from a methodological and
epistemological perspective? Thus, this panel contributes to the
constitution of media anthropology as one of anthropology's most
thriving subdisciplines. Secondly, it adds to the understanding of media
anthropology's legacies, epistemologies, theories, methodologies and
possible futures.

Askew, K., Wilk, R. (eds.) 2002. The anthropology of media: A reader.
Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Ginsburg, F., Abu-Lughod, L., Larkin, B. (eds.) 2002. Media worlds:
Anthropology on new terrain. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Peterson, M. A. 2003. Anthropology and mass communication. Media and
myth in the new millennium. New York & Oxford: Berghahn.
Postill, J., Peterson, M. A. 2009. What is the point of media
anthropology? Social Anthropology 17(3): 334-344.
Rothenbuhler, E., Coman, M. (eds.) 2005. Media Anthropology. Thousand
Oaks, CA: Sage.

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