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Thinking Through Sociality

2015-02-01 Social Science
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Release : 2015-02-01
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Book Synopsis Thinking Through Sociality by : Vered Amit

Download or read book Thinking Through Sociality written by Vered Amit. This book was released on 2015-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As issues and circumstances investigated by anthropologists are becoming ever more diverse, the need to address social affiliation in contemporary situations of mobility, urbanity, transnational connections, individuation, media, and capital flows, has never been greater. Thinking Through Sociality combines a review of classical theories with recent theoretical innovations across a wide range of issues, locales, situations and domains. In this book, an international group of contributors train attention on the concepts of disjuncture, field, social space, sociability, organizations and network, mid-range concepts that are “good to think with.” Neither too narrowly defined nor too sweeping, these concepts can be used to think through a myriad of ethnographic situations.

How the World Changed Social Media

2016-02-29 Social Science
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Release : 2016-02-29
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Book Synopsis How the World Changed Social Media by : Daniel Miller

Download or read book How the World Changed Social Media written by Daniel Miller. This book was released on 2016-02-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the World Changed Social Media is the first book in Why We Post, a book series that investigates the findings of anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in communities across the world. This book offers a comparative analysis summarising the results of the research and explores the impact of social media on politics and gender, education and commerce. What is the result of the increased emphasis on visual communication? Are we becoming more individual or more social? Why is public social media so conservative? Why does equality online fail to shift inequality offline? How did memes become the moral police of the internet? Supported by an introduction to the project’s academic framework and theoretical terms that help to account for the findings, the book argues that the only way to appreciate and understand something as intimate and ubiquitous as social media is to be immersed in the lives of the people who post. Only then can we discover how people all around the world have already transformed social media in such unexpected ways and assess the consequences

World

2017 Social Science
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Release : 2017
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis World by : João de Pina-Cabral

Download or read book World written by João de Pina-Cabral. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we mean when we refer to the world? How does the world relate to the human person? Are the two interdependent and, if so, in what way? What does the world mean for the ethnographer and the anthropologist? Much has been said of worlds and worldviews, but are we really certain we know what we mean when we use these words? Asking these questions and many more, this book explores the conditions of possibility for the ethnographic gesture and how those possibilities can shed light on the relationship between humans and the world in which they are found. As Joao de Pina-Cabral shows, important changes have occurred over the past decades concerning the way in which we relate the way we think to the way we are as a humanity embodied. Exploring new confrontations with a new conceptualization of the human condition, Cabral sketches a new anthropology, one that contributes to an ongoing separation from the socio-centric and representationalist constraints that have plagued the social sciences over the past century.

The Philosophy of Sociality

2007-08-16 Philosophy
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Release : 2007-08-16
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis The Philosophy of Sociality by : Raimo Tuomela

Download or read book The Philosophy of Sociality written by Raimo Tuomela. This book was released on 2007-08-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concepts based on full-blown collective intentionality (aboutness), viz., we-mode intentionality, are central for understanding and explaining the social world. The book systematically studies social groups, acting in them as a group member, collective commitment, group intentions, beliefs, and actions, especially authority-based group attitudes and actions. There are also chapters on cooperation, social institutions, cultural evolution, and group responsibility.

Media, Society, World

2013-08-29 Social Science
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Release : 2013-08-29
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Media, Society, World by : Nick Couldry

Download or read book Media, Society, World written by Nick Couldry. This book was released on 2013-08-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world. Since the beginning of modernity, media have transformed the scale on which we act as social beings. And now in the era of digital media, media themselves are being transformed as platforms, content, and producers multiply. Yet the implications of social theory for understanding media and of media for rethinking social theory have been neglected; never before has it been more important to understand those implications. This book takes on this challenge. Drawing on Couldry's fifteen years of work on media and social theory, this book explores how questions of power and ritual, capital and social order, and the conduct of political struggle, professional competition, and everyday life, are all transformed by today's complex combinations of traditional and 'new' media. In the concluding chapters Couldry develops a framework for global comparative research into media and for thinking collectively about the ethics and justice of our lives with media. The result is a book that is both a major intervention in the field and required reading for all students of media and sociology.

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