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Notes on Modernization, Cultural Change and Democracy (Inglehart and Welzel 2005)

Mar 13, 2010 6:21am

Source: Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel, Modernization, Cultural Change and Democracy. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2005. Conclusion to A Revised Theory of Modernization chapter, pp. 46-47 1. Socioeconomic development, in probabilistic terms, ‘tends to make people more secular, tolerant, and trusting and to place more emphasis on self-expression,...

Migrant workers’ use of ICTs for interpersonal communication

Mar 9, 2010 2:44pm

** via medianthro list ** The next EASA Media Anthropology Network e-seminar will run from 20 April to 4 May 2010 on the Network’s mailing list. Sun Sun Lim and Minu Thomas (National University of Singapore, NUS) will be presenting a working paper entitled “Migrant workers’ use of ICTs for interpersonal communication...

Mobile rewards: a critical review of the Mobiles for Development (M4D) literature

Mar 9, 2010 3:41am

EASA2010: Crisis and imagination (24/08/2010 – 27/08/2010) Media Anthropology Network workshop: The Rewards of Media Paper Title: Mobile rewards: a critical review of the Mobiles for Development (M4D) literature Francisco Osorio and John Postill Sheffield Hallam University Abstract: The extraordinary rate of diffusion and adoption of mobile phones across the global South over the past decade...

Conference on China’s soft power

Mar 2, 2010 1:44pm

** via MECCSA mailing list ** A Conference organised by the China Media Centre at the University of Westminster with the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication of China Renmin University 309 Regent Street, London W1 UK April 8th and 9th 2010 The dramatic economic growth in China has meant a renewed international influence. ...

Alasdair MacIntyre (1985) on what counts as a practice – and what doesn’t

Mar 2, 2010 2:05am

Any coherent and complex form of socially established cooperative human activity through which goods internal to that form of activity are realised in the course of trying to achieve those standards of excellence which are appropriate to, and partially definitive of that form of activity, with the result that human...

Notes on Krotz (2009) Mediatization

Mar 1, 2010 2:54pm

Regular readers of this blog will have noticed that I’ve been searching for a while for ways of grasping media and societal/cultural change. Well, the following notes may be of use in this regard. They are taken from: Krotz, F. (2009) Mediatization: a concept with which to grasp media and societal...

New media and cultural change from 1980 to 2010 – a set of notes

Feb 25, 2010 4:14pm

Working towards a journal article on this topic; still very sketchy and in note form but I know you’ll forgive me. CONCEPTS & IDEAS *We must embed our theorising of new media and cultural change in world-historical events and processes; test these theories through the unfolding of historical events in specific geographical...

Akram Zaatari e-seminar: links

Feb 25, 2010 12:55am

** from medianthro mailing list ** Dear e-seminar participants Our discussant, Kirsten Scheid, sends her apologies for the delay in posting her comments on Mark Westmoreland’s paper about the Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari . She’ll be doing so later today. The good news is that those of you who haven’t yet read Mark’s...

The BBC’s virtual revolution series: an anthropological note

Feb 22, 2010 2:40pm

I have thoroughly enjoyed the BBC’s brand new mini-series, The Virtual Revolution (subtitled: How 20 Years of the Web has Reshaped Our Lives), a series I intend to use in future teaching. It is informative, educational, visually striking, and thought-provoking. However, this would hardly be a blog if I merely...

New media, the academic field and university reform

Feb 21, 2010 4:25am

The February 2010 (Vol 18, No. 1) special issue of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) journal, Social Anthropology, is devoted to the ‘anthropologies of university reform’. A rare case of a tightly integrated journal issue that approaches the same theme through three different – and complementary – genres:...