anthropologist of outsourced selves and distributed humans
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#OpenAccess: This research traces how the network of ordinary municipal drains (nullahs) in Northeast Delhi became a “trauma trove” in the aftermath of the 2020 #DelhiPogrom in #India. Drawing on 3 years of #SensoryEthnography, it conceptualizes the nullah as a "trauma trove" of residual violence, showing how #rumor and speculation generate a plausibility (and possibility) of violence in the future.
LINK: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09584935.2026.2649745
My latest article on #CryingVideos of #Instagram #TikTok is published!
Read #OpenAccess: http://bit.ly/3OTyfJq
I discuss how and why users cry to 'affectuate' bonds in an attempt to build their personal brands.
The #CryingVideos have a mass appeal because of their impropriety. Their impudence challenges authoritative norms of screen performances, the dictations of what should be seen and shown and what shouldn’t.
Feedback and commments welcome!
There is a long list of interesting pre- and post-conferences to #ica23, and some are still accepting abstracts. If I was planning to go to Toronto I would be torn between attending these two, both arranged by such nice and smart scholars:
Key themes in disconnection research - deadline Jan 20th
https://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/projects/digital-disconnection/events/conferences/-ica-preconference-toronto-key-themes-in-digital-disconnection-studies.html
News avoidance, resistance, and related audience practices - deadline Jan 27th
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news-avoidance-resistance-and-related-audience-practices-definitions-predictors-and-consequences
Disconnection studies has emerged as an umbrella term for investigating why and how citizens take breaks from digital communication. Following a successful ICA preconference in Paris May 2022, the preconference in Toronto explores four critical themes in this emerging area: Authenticity, wellness, datafication and power. The preconference takes place locally in Toronto the day before the main conference. Call for abstracts here. Deadline January 20th, 2023.
My first-ever full paper submission to #ICA23 for Political Communication Divisions (@PolComm) has been accepted! I will be presenting on new platforms and affordances that gamify hate and violence against minorities. So chuffed and I can't keep calm. Attending Annual @ICAHDQ Conference has been a dream. Here I come, Toronto! 🍻
ByteDance used TikTok to track my location — and the locations of two of my colleagues — to try to find our sources. We reported on this back in October, but kept things vague to protect sources. Today ByteDance admitted it, so we can say much more:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/12/22/tiktok-tracks-forbes-journalists-bytedance/
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