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Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies
Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2008), ix, 472 pp.
"This book offers a view of the cultural, family, and interpersonal consequences of mobile communication across the globe. Scholars analyze the effect of mobile communication on all parts of life, from the relationship between literacy and the textual features of mobile phones to the use of ringtone
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Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria
Durham: Duke University Press (2008), xi, 314 pp.
"In this groundbreaking work, Brian Larkin provides a history and ethnography of media in Nigeria, asking what media theory looks like when Nigeria rather than a European nation or the United States is taken as the starting point. Concentrating on the Muslim city of Kano in the north of Nigeria, Lar
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Media and Nation Building: How the Iban Became Malaysian
New York: Berghahn (2008), xiv, 231 pp.
"While much has been written about the growing influence of television and the Internet on modern warfare, little is known about the relationship between media and nation building. This book explores, for the first time, this relationship by means of a paradigmatic case of successful nation building
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Anthropology and Mass Communication: Media and Myth in the New Millennium
New York: Berghahn, reprint (2008), xii, 321 pp.
"This is the first book to offer a systematic overview of the themes, topics and methodologies in the emerging dialogue between anthropologists studying mass communication and media analysts turning to ethnography and cultural analysis. Drawing on dozens of semiotic, ethnographic and cross-cultural
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Aneignungen des Globalen: Internet-Alltag in der arabischen Welt. Eine Fallstudie in Marokko
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2008), 259 pp.
"Ängste und Hoffnungen verbinden sich mit den jungen Menschen, die in der arabischen Welt zwei Drittel der Bevölkerung ausmachen. Wie reagieren die Jugendlichen auf die Herausforderungen einer globalisierten Welt? Anhand der Internetnutzung marokkanischer Jugendlicher und den damit verbundenen Ane
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The Televised Community: Culture, Politics, and the Market of Visual Representation in India
Frankfurt, Oder: European University Viadrina, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Doctoral Thesis (2007), 384 pp.
"This thesis provides, firstly, an analysis of the interplay of transnational media corporations, particularly Rupert Murdoch's Star TV, in their pursuit of creating profitable national consumer markets, preferably in a democracy like India, with the anti-minority politics, modes of popular/populist
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Medienkultur und Ethnographie: Ein transdisziplinärer Ansatz. Mit einer Fallstudie zu Senegal
Deep Insights
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2007), 422 pp.
The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication
Oxford: Berg (2006), xi, 212 pp.
"The book traces the impact of the cell phone from personal issues of loneliness and depression to the global concerns of the modern economy and the trans-national family. As the technology of social networking, the cell phone has become central to establishing and maintaining relationships in areas
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Media Anthropology
Thousand Oaks: Sage (2005), 350 pp.
"Media Anthropology represents a convergence of issues and interests on anthropological approaches to the study of media. The purpose of this reader is to promote the identity of the field of study; identify its major concepts, methods, and bibliography; comment on the state of the art; and provide
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The Anthropology of Media: A Reader
Malden, Mass.; Oxford: Blackwell (2002), 416 pp.
Ritual Communication: From Everyday Conversation to Mediated Ceremony
London: Sage (1998), 208 pp.
"This book combines bibliographic essay and theory construction to provide a perspective on ritual as a special and powerful form of communication. Part one is a critical review of definitions of ritual from anthropology, sociology, communication studies and other literature, ending with a theoretic
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Der ethnographische Film: Einführung in Methoden und Praxis
Berlin: Reimer (1995), 293 pp.
"Zwei Aspekte stehen im Mittelpunkt der Beiträge von insgesamt zwölf Autoren: der Film als eine Methode der ethnologischen Forschung und der ethnologische Film als Forschungsgegenstand. Behandelt werden u.a. verstecktes und offenes Filmen, Verhältnis zu den Gefilmten, gegenseitige Beeinflussung,
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