Come il mondo ha cambiato i social media
An Italian Translation of How the World Changed Social Media
Daniel Miller, Dr Elisabetta Costa, Nell Haynes, Tom McDonald, Dr Razvan Nicolescu, Jolynna Sinanan, Juliano Spyer, Shriram Venkatraman, and Xinyuan Wang and translated by Gabriella D’Agostino and Vincenzo Matera
Praise for Come il mondo ha cambiato i social media
Daniel Miller is Professor of Anthropology at UCL, author/editor
of 39 books including How the World Changed Social Media, Social
Media in an English Village, Tales from Facebook, Digital
Anthropology, (Ed. with H. Horst), The Internet: an Ethnographic
Approach (with D. Slater), Webcam (with J. Sinanan), The
Comfort of Things, A Theory of Shopping, and Stuff. Dr Elisabetta Costa is
Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the British Institute at Ankara (BIAA). She is
an anthropologist specialising in the study of digital media, social media,
journalism, politics, and gender in Turkey and the Middle East. Nell
Haynes is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in
Santiago. She received her PhD in Anthropology from the American University in
2013. Her research addresses themes of performance, authenticity,
globalisation, and gendered and ethnic identification in Bolivia and Chile. Tom
McDonald is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, The University
of Hong Kong. He received his PhD in Anthropology from UCL in 2013 and has
published numerous academic articles on internet use and consumption practices
in China. Razvan
Nicolescu is a Research Associate at University College London, from where he
obtained his PhD in 2013. Trained both in telecommunications and anthropology,
he has conducted ethnographic research in Romania and Italy. His research
interests focus on visibility and digital anthropology; political economy,
governance, and informality; feelings, subjectivity, and normativity. Jolynna Sinanan is Vice
Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow at RMIT University, Melbourne. From
2011-2014, she was Research Fellow in Anthropology at UCL. She is
co-author How the World Changed Social Media (with eight
others) and Webcam. Her areas of research are digital ethnography,
new media, migration and gender in Trinidad, Australia, and Singapore. Juliano Spyer is Honorary
Research Associate at UCL's Department of Anthropology, where he also obtained
his PhD. His research interests include digital anthropology, online research
methods, learning and apprenticeship, DIY/participatory media and Christianity.
Previously, he created and managed social media projects in the United States
and Latin America, and published the first book about social media in Brazil
(Conectado, 2007). Shriram Venkatraman has a PhD in
Anthropology from UCL and is currently an Assistant Professor at Indraprastha
Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIITD). He is a trained
professional statistician and, prior to his doctoral studies, held leadership
positions at Walmart in the USA. His research interests include workplace
technologies, organisational culture and entrepreneurship.
Xinyuan Wang is a PhD candidate at the Dept. of Anthropology at UCL.
She obtained her MSc from the UCL’s Digital Anthropology Programme. She is an
artist in Chinese traditional painting and calligraphy. She translated (Horst
and Miller Eds.) Digital Anthropology into Chinese and contributed a piece on
Digital Anthropology in China.
EtnoAntropologia
Format: Open Access PDF
286 Pages
45 colour illustrations
ISBN: 9781787355576
Publication: January 24, 2019
Series: Why We Post
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