Clik here to view.
Democracy in the age of viral reality (1)
From Postill, J. forthcoming. Democracy in the age of viral reality: a media epidemiography of Spain’s indignados movement. Submitted in September 2011 to special issue “Media Ethnography and Public...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New ethnography of Christianity among the Bidayuh of Sarawak
The Christianity of Culture Conversion, Ethnic Citizenship, and the Matter of Religion in Malaysian Borneo Liana Chua Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Palgrave Macmillan I have greatly...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Democracy in the age of viral reality (and 5)
Continued from Democracy in the age of viral reality (4) Conclusion In his anthropological study of the free software movement, Chris Kelty (2008) concludes that this movement signals a global...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jared Diamond not an environmental determinist
I’ve just posted this brief response to Antrosio, Jason, 2012. More than Guns, Germs, and Steel. Living Anthropologically, http://www.livinganthropologically.com/anthropology/guns-germs-and-steel/....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Two essays on Spain’s Indignados movement
A cracking new issue of Hot Spots has just been published online by Cultural Anthropology. Titled Occupy, Anthropology and the 2011 Global Uprisings it is guest edited by Jeffrey S. Juris (Northeastern...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Free e-seminar on webcam ethnography, 9-23 October 2012
By Steve Lyon (Durham University) via Media Anthropology Network mailing list Dear List The next Media Anthropology Network E-Seminar will be happening very soon. The next e-seminar will be based...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Follow their interests: the theory and ethnography of microblogging as a...
Paper to the #IR13 Conference, Salford University, UK Session 050: Ethnographies of Online and Mobile Media Today 21 October 2012 Dr John Postill, RMIT University Melbourne, Australia Slide notes [see...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Public protest in a digitised world: reflections on the Indignados and Occupy...
Paper to the Anthropology Department, Oslo University 21 November 2012 John Postill RMIT University, Melbourne Abstract The wave of protests that struck the world in 2011 has generated a great deal of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Book review (1) of Localizing the Internet, by John Postill
Localizing the Internet: An Anthropological Account. John Postill. Oxford: Berghahn, 2011. xxv + 150 pp., figures, photographs, FAQs, index. JENNIFER COOL University of Southern California American...
View ArticleClik here to view.
(Non)violence and the anti-corporate globalisation movements
Brief notes on Juris, J.S. 2008. Networking Futures: the Movements against Corporate Globalization. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. p. 91 ‘Militant anticapitalists… [adopt] more aggressive...
View ArticleClik here to view.
We are the 1%: rethinking national elites as protest participants
Essay submitted to Reviews & Critical Commentary (CritCom). See [PDF] Suggested citation: Postill, J. 2013. We are the 1%: rethinking national elites as protest participants. Melbourne: RMIT...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The multilinearity of protest
Forthcoming chapter to appear in Othon Alexandrakis (ed). Method Acting: The Anthropology of New Social Movements. [PDF] To cite: Postill, J. 2013. The multilinearity of protest: understanding new...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why do we need the concept of social field?
An additional note by John Postill on the concept of social field. To appear in forthcoming volume by V. Amit (ed.) Concepts of Sociality: An Anthropological Interrogation. Oxford: Berghahn. See also...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Digital ethnography and the global information crisis: theories, methods,...
John Postill Digital Ethnography Research Centre RMIT Melbourne, Australia Presentation notes, incl. Q&A Oxford Digital Ethnography group (OxDEG) Oxford Internet Institute (OII) University of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
10. Freedom technologists series: a first recap (part 2)
http://autoconsulta.org/mutaciones.php This post completes the first recap of the ongoing freedom technologists series through a brief theoretical exercise, namely applying field theory to the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What does anthropology have to say about social media and activism?
This is an early draft of a short invited piece for Anthropology Unbound: A Field Guide to the 21st Century, 3rd ed. E. Paul Durrenberger and Suzan Erem. Oxford University Press. The remit was to write...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Aggregation vs. networking: a conversation between Paolo Gerbaudo and Jeff Juris
These are the first few exchanges of an ongoing public conversation between the social movements scholars Paolo Gerbaudo and Jeff Juris, with Sasha Constanza-Shock and myself chipping in as required....
View ArticleClik here to view.
13. Six ways of doing digital ethnography
This is the thirteenth instalment in the freedom technologists series. A revised version will appear in Pink, S., H. Horst, J. Postill, L. Hjorth, T. Lewis and J. Tacchi. 2015, Forthcoming. Digital...
View ArticleClik here to view.
14. Field theory, media change and the new citizen movements
This draft article is the fourteenth post in the freedom technologists series. Field theory, media change and the new citizen movements: the case of Spain’s ‘real democracy turn’, 2011-2014....
View ArticleClik here to view.
16. A letter from Jakarta
Many years ago, in 1987, I left Madrid and came to Jakarta to become a journalist. For about a year, I was a trainee at Tempo magazine and a stringer with Spain’s national newsagency, EFE. I lived with...
View Article
