Dear All,

Below you find the call for papers/abstracts for the Media Anthropology 
Network Workshop on the 11th of October 2019 in Munich. Deadline for 
submissions is the 1st of June.

All the best,

Philipp, Sahana and Elisabetta


CfP: European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Media 
Anthropology Network Workshop "The Digital Turn in Media Anthropology"

Organizers
Prof. Sahana Udupa (Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich)
Dr. Elisabetta Costa (University of Groningen)
Dr. Philipp Budka (University of Vienna)

Date & Venue
11 October 2019
Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU) Munich, Germany

By building on the Media Anthropology Network panel at the EASA 2018 
conference in Stockholm and the follow-up e-seminar from 16 Oct. - 9 
Nov. 2018 (http://www.media-anthropology.net/index.php/e-seminars), this 
workshop critically explores “the digital turn” in the anthropological 
study of media, and aims to push further ethnographic knowledge into the 
role that digital media technologies play in people's everyday life and 
broader sociopolitical transformations. In so doing, this workshop 
contributes to the reassessment of media anthropology in digital times, 
and raises critical questions on how digital media have posed new 
epistemological challenges, inspired methodological innovations, and 
offered opportunities for political activism for media anthropologists. 
A key question that drives this discussion is whether the digital turn 
has reconfigured the classic distinction between “home” and “field” 
through temporally intensified “horizontal” networks on a global scale. 
Have these connections – culturally translated across different 
societies – collapsed the distinction between “home” and “field”? As 
users and researchers of digital media, how do we rework anthropology’s 
classic conundrum of home-field, distance-nearness and us-other in 
radically progressive ways? What does the “digital turn” entail in terms 
of how we engage research participants, and how do we use these new 
pathways to critique the multidirectional “colonial matrix of power” 
(Mignalo & Walsh, 2007) that is riding on the very infrastructure of 
contemporary digital media?

We invite scholars to engage with these questions through various topic 
fields they are researching, and consider this reflexive move as an 
important step towards challenging “the global fact” of racial, gender, 
ethnic and religion-based exclusions. We also invite scholars to bring 
cases of innovative use of digital research to overcome prevailing 
hierarchies in anthropological knowledge production – between 
researchers and research participants, as well as within the academic 
community.

Drawing from their own research, and from their engagement with relevant 
literatures, workshop participants will ask the following questions:

  *      What is the present state of anthropological study on digital 
media technologies and their impact on culture and society?
  *      What are the main questions in need of urgent research 
(especially in connection to decolonizing media/digital anthropology, 
gender, visuality, extreme movements and speech)?
  *      How have digital technologies transformed (media) anthropology 
and how does the future look for media anthropologists?
  *      What is the role of digital technology in transforming 
knowledge production and dissemination in media anthropology?
  *      How can anthropologists contribute to the interdisciplinary 
effort of theorizing digital media practices and digital technologies?
  *      Who will be the main beneficiaries of this research, both in 
academia and beyond?

We invite ethnographic and/or theoretical papers that focus on the above 
questions.

Participants who need travel support to attend the workshop are invited 
to mention the same (limited financial support is available for travel 
and accommodation).

In a single word document, please send your abstracts of 1000 words and 
a short bio (100 words) stating your current affiliation, mentioning 
whether you are an EASA member.
Please use the filename format: authorlastname_digitalturnworkshop2019, 
and send this no later than 1 June 2019 to 
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Selected participants will be notified by 30 June 2019. EASA members 
will get the first preference in travel bursaries.

-- 
Philipp Budka
http://www.philbu.net
http://twitter.com/philbu

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