I spent the past few days attending the conference on Materialities of Postcolonial Memory organized by the Amsterdam School for Heritage Memory and Material Culture. The highlights for me were the panels that dealt with […]
Book review of “Digital Ethnography” in New Media & Society
Super pleased to see my review of Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practice published in New Media & Society today.
Symposium on Mediterranean Cities: Urban Poetics, Urban (Geo)Politics
Last week I joined a symposium in Istanbul on the changing meanings of Mediterranean cities.
Panel presentation at Postcolonial Mediations Conference
Today our team presented at the University of Amsterdam on a joint panel at the conference, Postcolonial Mediations: Globalization and Displacement.
Guest lecture on transnational migration and media circuits
“The Istanbul I moved here for is gone” Today I gave a guest lecture in the course, Postcolonial Europe at Utrecht University, led by Dr. Gianmaria Colpani and Dr. Layal Ftouni. It was a great […]
Fieldwork blog: contesting Istanbul’s identity on social media
Artist, Burak Akbay, created and shared this piece online, saying on Twitter that he had made it as a new logo for Istanbul, since the city has a new symbol: the Arab hair transplant tourist.
Fieldwork blog: animal protection as urban solidarity
I’ve been thinking about animal rights activism in Istanbul as a form of alternative solidarity being built under polarized political circumstances, and wondering how social media might play into this.
Workshop on the Anthropology of Media in Turkey
I’m very glad to be joining the sessions of a great event at Kadir Has University in Istanbul. Coinciding with my first days of fieldwork here in the city, the workshop has brought together a […]
Presentation of conference paper on alternative digital mappings of diaspora at IMISCOE 2017
This week our team’s paper was presented at IMISCOE’s annual conference, on a panel about methodological considerations in digital migration studies.
Open access publication of commentary in issue #4 of Spheres on Media and Migration
I was asked to write a commentary for the latest issue of Spheres: Journal for Digital Cultures. The journal is open access, and this issue is dedicated to the theme of international migration and the […]
