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

Wed Mar 28 14:39:09 GMT 2018





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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