[Commlist] EASA Media Anthropology Network Workshop "Decoloniality and the Digital Turn in Media Anthropology" - Program

Together with the ERC Project ForDigitalDignity ONLINERPOL (Sahana 
Udupa, LMU Munich), the EASA Media Anthropology Network is organizing 
the workshop "Decoloniality and the Digital Turn in Media Anthropology" 
at LMU Munich, 11 October 2019. This international workshop continues 
and concretizes discussions from the Media Anthropology Network 2018 
EASA conference panel in Stockholm and the follow-up e-seminar via this 
mailing list (http://www.media-anthropology.net/index.php/e-seminars). 
In so doing, this workshop contributes to the reassessment of media 
anthropology in digital times, and raises critical questions on how 
digital media have posed new epistemological challenges, inspired 
methodological innovations, and offered opportunities for political 
activism for media anthropologists. A key question that drives this 
discussion is whether the digital turn has reconfigured the classic 
distinction between "home" and "field" through temporally intensified 
"horizontal" networks on a global scale. Have these connections – 
culturally translated across different societies – collapsed the 
distinction between "home" and "field"? As users and researchers of 
digital media, how do we rework anthropology’s classic conundrum of 
home-field, distance-nearness and us-other in radically progressive 
ways? What does the "digital turn" entail in terms of how we engage 
research participants, and how do we use these new pathways to critique 
the multidirectional "colonial matrix of power" (Mignalo & Walsh, 2007) 
that is riding on the very infrastructure of contemporary digital media?

All the best,

Philipp, Sahana and Elisabetta


Workshop Program

9.30 - 9.45 Sahana Udupa, Elisabetta Costa & Philipp Budka: Welcome and 
Introduction

Opening Keynote
9.45 - 10.15 Daniel Miller: Us and Them

10.25 - 12.15 Politics of knowledge and methodological quandaries in the 
digital age (Chair Salma Siddique)

10.25 - 10.45 Mustafa Ali: Algorithmic racism and the politics of knowledge

10.55 - 11.15 Johanna Sumiala & Minttu Tikka: Digital media ethnography: 
A proposal for research on the move

11.25 - 11.45 Susanne Stadlbauer: Rethinking modes and media: 
Ethnography and multimodality in religious conversations of refugees

13.00 - 15.00 Digital natives: A decolonial query into subversion and 
inculcation (Chair Philipp Budka)

13.00 - 13.20 Katrien Pype: Weaving on the net. Ethnographic notes on 
digitality and politics: Perspectives from the Kinois cyberspace.

13.30 - 13.50 Gabriel Dattatreyan: Digital (decolonial) tactics: Lessons 
from the Goldsmiths anti-racist occupation

14.00 - 14.20 Suzana Jovicic: Digital natives, migration and social mobility

15.10 - 17.00 Dislocation: Digital flows and (im)mobilities (Chair 
Elisabetta Costa)

15.10 - 15.30 Sandra Ponzanesi: Digital diasporas: The ethnographic turn 
in postcolonial studies

15.40 - 16.00 Christian Ritter: Locating tourism media: The story of 
travel influencers in Estonia

16.10 - 16.30 Giulia Battaglia: Learning from art/film practices of the 
Global South: Digital platforms of image-making in India and the 
anthropological practice

Closing Keynote
17.00 - 17.30 John Postill: Chasing runaway media: The anthropology of 
media control in an uncontrolled world

17.45 - 18.15 Final Discussion (Chair Sahana Udupa)


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