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Filmmaking and photography in anthropological research
Child in north China fieldsite explores Kiki Wang’s camera (Photo: Tom McDonald) As part of the project’s ambitious plans for telling people about the findings of our research, I’m fortunate to have...
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Thinking of writing cultures
Project team selfie (Photograph by Xinyuan) This blog post will try to give just a short glimpse of what our collective work means and how we envisage doing it. This May, the entire project team...
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What is an anthropological global generalisaion?
Image courtesy of Lindsay Campbell, Creative Commons Perhaps the biggest problem of our entire project is that every time anyone asks us a question we have nine different answers, which is not what...
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What’s the point of ethnographic fieldwork?
Learning from each other in the North China fieldsite (Photo: Tom McDonald) Being an anthropologist is one of the strangest jobs in the world. For the last 15 months, I’ve been living in a small rural...
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Thank you, people from Grano!
A newly-wed couple from Grano preparing for a photo session on the steps of the church (Photograph by Razvan Nicolescu) I have been living for 15 months in a beautiful place in southeast Italy in the...
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Social Media – Just stop that and behave.
Image courtesy of Sally Anscombe, Creative Commons I am just finishing a chapter of my monograph on social media in England in parallel with the other eight team members who are simultaneously writing...
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A talk at Oxford Internet Institute
by Shriram and Xinyuan Our research Shriram and Xinyuan giving an talk about social media in India and China at Oxford Internet Institute It is always good practice to exchange knowledge and ideas with...
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Our panel at the American Anthropological Association Meeting
The Global Social Media Impact Study will be presenting a special Invited Panel entitled Global Social Media and Global Social Anthropology at the American Anthropological Association Meeting at...
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Seminar at SOAS Center for Media Studies
SOAS Main Building (Photo by SOAS CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) We are holding a public talk about our research at the SOAS Centre for Media Studies as part of their weekly seminar series. Feel free to come along...
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Using social media for teaching social media
QQ: China is just a click away (Photo: Tom McDonald) This term our research team has been teaching a completely new Master’s module on the Anthropology of Social Media at UCL, with many of the students...
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