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The Anthropology of Digital Practices connects for the first time three distinct research areas digital ethnography, causal ethnography, and media practice theory to explore how we might track the effects of new media practices in a digital world. It invites media and communication students and scholars to overcome the field's old aversion to media effects' and explores the messy, complex, open-ended effects of new media practices in a digital age.

Based on long-term ethnographic research and drawing from recent advances in the study of causality and ethnography, this book tells the formation story' of the anti-woke movement through a series of critical media events. It argues that digital media practices (e.g. podcasting, YouTubing, tweeting, commenting, broadcasting) will have formative' effects on an emerging social world at different points in time. One important task of the digital ethnographer is precisely to distinguish between the formative and non-formative e

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis
      Imprint Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Published 3/29/2024
      ISBN-13 9781032370828
      978-1032370828
      ISBN-10 1032370823
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      Book Synopsis

      The Anthropology of Digital Practices connects for the first time three distinct research areas digital ethnography, causal ethnography, and media practice theory to explore how we might track the effects of new media practices in a digital world. It invites media and communication students and scholars to overcome the field's old aversion to media effects' and explores the messy, complex, open-ended effects of new media practices in a digital age.

      Based on long-term ethnographic research and drawing from recent advances in the study of causality and ethnography, this book tells the formation story' of the anti-woke movement through a series of critical media events. It argues that digital media practices (e.g. podcasting, YouTubing, tweeting, commenting, broadcasting) will have formative' effects on an emerging social world at different points in time. One important task of the digital ethnographer is precisely to distinguish between the formative and non-formative e

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