[ecrea] CfP EASA2018: The Digital Turn: New Directions in Media Anthropology

This is a reminder that the Media Anthropology Network is organizing a 
network panel at the 15th European Association of Social Anthropologists 
(EASA) Biennial Conference and that the *deadline for paper proposals is 
9 April 2018*.

CfP EASA2018: The Digital Turn: New Directions in Media Anthropology 
[Media Anthropology Network Panel]

Convenors

Philipp Budka (University of Vienna)
Elisabetta Costa (University of Groningen)
Sahana Udupa (Ludwig Maximilian University)

Abstract

The digital turn in media anthropology signals the growing importance of 
digital media technologies in contemporary sociocultural, political and 
economic processes. This panel recognizes the digital turn as a paradigm 
shift in the anthropological study of media, and aims to foreground 
three important streams of exploration that constitute new directions in 
the anthropology of media.

The rise of online vitriol against vulnerable communities has punctured 
euphoric pronouncements about digital media as a radical enabler of 
grassroots democracy. A significant aspect of digital extreme speech is 
gender based violence in digital environments. Beyond the specific 
instances of online violence, gendering media anthropology remains a 
crucial and broader area of intervention. Similarly, different forms of 
digital visualities have accentuated the materialities that constitute 
everyday digital experiences and their varied cultural ramifications. 
Charting the three directions as gendering digital media, materialities 
of digital visualities and online extreme speech, this panel aims to 
push further the ethnographic knowledge into the role that digital media 
play in people's everyday life and broader sociopolitical transformations.

We invite ethnographic and/or theoretical papers that focus either on
(1) the gendered dimension of digital practices and introduce innovative 
theoretical insights into the relationship between gender and the digital;
(2) extreme speech and online vitriol aimed at refugees, migrants, 
sexual minorities and other vulnerable communities, but online extreme 
speech as also a means for political contestation;
(3) material dimensions of digital visualities as constituting features 
of new ways of communication and interaction.

To propose a paper navigate to: 
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6386

For more information about EASA 2018 conference visit: 
https://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2018/cfp
IMPORTANT: All authors must be members of EASA by the time they 
register, but one does not have be a member yet in order to propose a 
paper and have it accepted.


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