Event overview
A public lecture co-organized by the Goldsmiths Media Ethnography Group and the Centre for Creative & Social Technologies (CAST).
This talk reports on research by nine anthropologists who each simultaneously carried out a 15 month ethnography on the use and consequences of social media in fieldsites ranging from the Syria-Turkey border, an IT complex in south India to both a factory and a rural town in China, a squatters settlement in Brazil, a mining town in Chile, an English village and small towns in south Italy and Trinidad.
The focus is on our definition of social media as `scalable sociality’ and the rise of visual communication. It examines the consequences for a broad range of issues such as enhanced conservatism, and both enhanced and reduced individualism, inequality and privacy.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 18 May 2016 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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