I co-authored a chapter with Laura Candidatu for the masterfully edited (by Elisabetta Costa, Patricia G. Lange, Nell Haynes, and Jolynna Sinanan) and incredibly thorough and comprehensive Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology. Here’s the impressive Table of Contents:
Introduction
Elisabetta Costa, Patricia G. Lange, Nell Haynes, Jolynna Sinanan
PART I: Histories
1. Media Anthropology and the Digital Challenge
Mark Allen Peterson
2. Indigenous Media: Anthropological Perspectives and Historical Notes
Philipp Budka
3. A Longitudinal Study of Media in Brazil
Conrad Phillip Kottak and Richard Pace
PART II: Approaches
A. Media as Infrastructure
4. “Here, Listen to My CD-R”: Music Transactions and Infrastructures in Underground Hip-Hop Touring
Anthony Kwame Harrison
5. “Technology is Wonderful Until It Isn’t”: Community-Based Research and the Precarity of Digital Infrastructure
Jerome Crowder, Peggy Determeyer, and Sara Rogers
6. Media Migration
Patricia G. Lange
7. The Digitally Natural: Hypomediacy and the “Really Real” in Game Design
Thomas M. Malaby
B. Media as Practice
8. Media Practices and Their Social Effects
John Postill
9. Television is Not a Democracy: The Limits of Interactive Broadcast in Japan
Elizabeth A. Rodwell
10. Producing Place through Play: An Ethnography of Location-based Gaming
Kyle Moore
11. PhotoMedia as Anthropology: Towards a Speculative Research Method
Edgar Gómez Cruz
12. Content-as-Practice: Studying Digital Content with a Media Practice Approach
Christoph Bareither
C. Media as Materiality
13. The Materiality of the Virtual in Urban Space
Jordan Kraemer
14. Anthropology and Digitial Media: Multivocal Materialities of Video Meetings and Deafness
Rebekah Cupitt
15. Cloudwork: Data Centre Labour and the Maintenance of Media Infrastructure
A.R.E. Taylor
16. Media Anthropology and Emerging Technologies: Re-working Media Presence
Sarah Pink, Yolande Strengers, Melisa Duque, Larissa Nichols, and Rex Martin
D. Media as Representation
17. #Everest: Visual Economies of Leisure and Labour in the Tourist Encounter
Jolynna Sinanan
18. Postcolonial Digital Collections: Instruments, Mirrors, Agents
Haidy Geismar and Katja Müller
19. Ethnographies of the Digitally Dispossessed
Heather Ford
PART III: Thematic Considerations
A. Relationships
20. “Friends from WeChat Groups”: The Practice of Friendship via Social Media among Older People in China
Xinyuan Wang
21. Mediated Money and Social Relationships among Hong Kong Cross-boundary Students
Tom McDonald, Holy Hoi Ki Shum and Kwok Cheung Wong
22. Narratives of Digital Intimacy: Romanian Migration and Mediated Transnational Life
Donya Alinejad and Laura Candidatu
B. Social Inequality and Marginalisation
23. Mediating Hopes: Social Media and Crisis in Northern Italy
Elisabetta Costa
24. Digital Inequality and Relatedness in India after Access
Sirpa Tenhunen
25. In This Together: Black Women, Collective Screening Experiences, and Space-Making as Meaning-Making
Marlaina Martin
26. Black Gamer’s Refuge: Finding Community within the Magic Circle of Whiteness
Akil Fletcher
C. Identities and Social Change
27. Inking Identity: Indigenous Nationalism in Bolivian Tattoo Art
Nell Haynes
28. Being Known and Becoming Famous in Kampala, Uganda
Brooke Schwartz Bocast
29. The Hall of Mirrors: Negotiating Gender on Chilean Social Media
Baird Campbell
D. Political Conservatism
30. Media Anthropology and the Crisis of Facts
Peter Hervik
31. Conspiracy Media Ecologies and the Case for Guerilla Anthropology
Leighton C. Peterson and Jeb J. Card
32. Researching Political Trolls as Instruments of Political Conservatism in Turkey: A Historical Framework and Methodological Reflections on a Discourse Community
Erkan Saka
33. Performing Conservatism: A Study of Emerging Political Mobilisations in Latin America using “Social Media Drama” Analysis
Raúl Castro-Pérez
E. Surveillance
34. Algorithmic Violence in Everyday Life and the Role of Media Anthropology
Veronica Barassi
35. Queer and Muslim? Social Surveillance and Islamic Sexual Ethics on Twitter
Benjamin Ale-Ebrahim
36. Queer Sousveillance: Publics, Politics, and Social Media in South Korea
Alex Wolff
F. Emerging Technologies and Contemporary Challenges: Data, AI and VR
37. The Algorithmic Silhouette: New Technologies and the Fashionable Body
Heather A. Horst and Sheba Mohammid
38. Unlocking Heritage In Situ: Tourist Places and Augmented Reality in Estonia
Christian S. Ritter
39. Precarity, Discriminiation and (In)Visibility: An Ethnography of “The Algorithm” in the YouTube Influencer Industry
Zoë Glatt
40. AI Design and Everyday Logics in the Kalahari
Nicola J. Bidwell, Helen Arnold, Alan F. Blackwell, Charlie Nqeisji, |Kun Kunta, and Martin Ujakpa
41. Ethnography of/and Virtual Reality
Lisa Messeri
Afterword
Eric W. Rothenbuhler
Donya Alinejad 