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Where did all the kids come from? And where will they go?
A young woman and her baby at a local mobile phone shop Doing fieldwork always means you need to understand the local people before you look into anything particular. In which vein, most of my time so...
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QQ & WeChat: a threat to marriage in China?
Photo by flowcomm (Creative Commons) Writing in the 1970s, Margery Wolf noted the pressures faced by rural Chinese women when they married. Women would typically leave their home village, where they...
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Why we still need an Anthropology of Europe
(By Daniel Miller and Razvan Nicolescu) Cake – Grano style (Photo by Daniel Miller) One of the advantages of visiting other field sites is exposure to the incredible contrasts between them. Although...
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Facebook as freedom
Image courtesy of Creative Commons We started this project by thinking about Facebook as an ‘in’ to understanding the social totality of people’s lives. Facebook may be the means, but relationships are...
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Ceramics, forklift trucks and social media
(By Daniel Miller and Xinyuan Wang) A factory worker who is operating forklift truck in Xinyuan Wang’s fieldsite, and a 12-13th century Jingdezhen ceramics in the Shanghai Museum (photo by Xinyuan...
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What will we learn from the fall of Facebook?
Photo by Lucélia Ribeiro (Creative Commons) The ‘Fall of Facebook’ seems an odd title given this is a social media platform that continues to expand worldwide. Yet there is no doubt that we can and...
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Snapshots from the field: using social media in the Italian fieldsite
People walking in the central square of a small town close to the fieldsite during a local feast. Photo by Razvan Nicolescu. Sandra is a 34 year old lawyer and considers herself to be quite successful....
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How teenagers communicate with publicly private messages
Teens may use different characters to add layers of information to a name. (Photo by Juliano Spyer) Through the process of “gutting” profiles I had the opportunity to pay attention to a kind of posting...
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The NRI Club: Non Resident Indians stay connected with Facebook
NRIs (Non Resident Indians) are Indian citizens who have lived outside India for a period of 182 days or more in a year. Most South Indian NRIs in the last two decades are those who have left India...
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Social media and mass media: the CCTV Chinese New Year’s Gala
Poetic couplets hung on the door of a village house in preparation for Chinese New Year (Photo: Tom McDonald) I passed the recent Chinese New Year in my fieldsite in North China with the Wang family in...
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Facebook for children?
Youth taking photos at a wedding in the Turkey fieldsite (Photo by Elisabetta Costa) In common with many of our other fieldsites, here in south-east Turkey the sentiment is that Facebook is also not as...
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Online and under the covers: the World Cup and social media in rural China
Post young man from North China fieldsite made on his WeChat profile. Caption reads “Essential preparation for watching football.” From left to right is beer, red bull, yoghurt, cigarettes and plate of...
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Seeing red: watching the World Cup in Northern Chile
Neighborhood children celebrate Chile’s victory. Photo by Nell Haynes The very first night I spent in my fieldsite in Northern Chile, the national team qualified for the World Cup. I had no TV, no...
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Teens are obsessed about spell checking thanks to Facebook
Photo by Juliano Spyer Schoolteachers and staff in Baldoíno have a common perspective about the impact of social media on education. For them, Facebook and similar services are bad because they make...
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Digital photo albums in south-east Turkey
Photo by Elisabetta Costa Anytime I become close to a family after having visited them at least a couple of times, my new friends usually show me their family photo albums. So far this has happened in...
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Harassment and social media
Photo by Elisabetta Costa As soon as I arrived in my field site, I was told by my first informants that Facebook is often used to prove to other people that their life is happy, full of happy...
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How teenagers communicate with publicly private messages
Teens may use different characters to add layers of information to a name. (Photo by Juliano Spyer) Through the process of “gutting” profiles I had the opportunity to pay attention to a kind of posting...
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The NRI Club: Non Resident Indians stay connected with Facebook
NRIs (Non Resident Indians) are Indian citizens who have lived outside India for a period of 182 days or more in a year. Most South Indian NRIs in the last two decades are those who have left India...
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Social media and mass media: the CCTV Chinese New Year’s Gala
Poetic couplets hung on the door of a village house in preparation for Chinese New Year (Photo: Tom McDonald) I passed the recent Chinese New Year in my fieldsite in North China with the Wang family in...
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Facebook for children?
Youth taking photos at a wedding in the Turkey fieldsite (Photo by Elisabetta Costa) In common with many of our other fieldsites, here in south-east Turkey the sentiment is that Facebook is also not as...
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