Anthropology › Section O · Anthropology of media › Topic O.8
Digital media and new forms of sociality
Texts, feeds and video calls now carry friendships, romances, family life and politics. Anthropologists study how digital media create new ways of relating, and how they also open new paths for exclusion, activism and fraud.
In this topic
- Sociality, online and off
- Doing ethnography online
- Who is online
- Friendship and youth
- Breakups and media ideologies
- Worked example: a breakup by text
- Polymedia and families across borders
- Digital media and dissent
- Digital shadowlands and sakawa
- Worked example: interpreting sakawa
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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