[Commlist] New book: Understanding China Through Digital Anthropology (UCL Press)

UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access 
book that may be of interest to list /Understanding China Through 
Digital Anthropology/ edited//by Daniel Miller and Xinyuan Wang.
Download it free: 
https://uclpress.co.uk/book/understanding-china-through-digital-anthropology/ 
<https://uclpress.co.uk/book/understanding-china-through-digital-anthropology/> 


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*Understanding China Through Digital Anthropology
*Edited by Daniel Miller and Xinyuan Wang
Free download: 
https://uclpress.co.uk/book/understanding-china-through-digital-anthropology/ 
<https://uclpress.co.uk/book/understanding-china-through-digital-anthropology/> 

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/Understanding China Through Digital Anthropology/ questions our 
understanding of digital technologies by demonstrating fundamental 
differences in the meaning of both technology and the digital between 
China and the West. This follows from a longstanding historical 
divergence in the meaning of and attitude to the relationship between 
technology and humanity.
The book also challenges our understanding of China through a series of 
case studies that range from the creation of algorithms, the normative 
basis of social media and the impact of digital communication on diverse 
fields including economic practices, gender, media, health and 
education. These further demonstrate the value of long-term ethnographic 
studies that situate people’s online activities in their everyday 
offline lives. These case studies are testimony to the continued 
heterogeneity of China in covering sophisticated urban IT professionals, 
Tibetan villagers and grassroots women struggling to make a living. All 
of this contributes to a new understanding of a contemporary China that 
has been transformed by the sheer scale and dynamism manifested in the 
deployment of digital technologies. The book also includes an extensive 
summary of work undertaken by scholars inside China on digital 
anthropology and previously only available in Chinese.

Free download: 
https://uclpress.co.uk/book/understanding-china-through-digital-anthropology/ 
<https://uclpress.co.uk/book/understanding-china-through-digital-anthropology/> 
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