#Anthropology roundup: discussion: “towards a richer understanding of affordances…

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A necessary complication: towards a richer understanding of affordances

media/anthropology by John Postill

A comment on Elisabetta Costa “Social Media as Practices: an Ethnographic Critique of ‘Affordances’ and ‘Context Collapse’.” EASA Media Anthropology Network’s 60th e-Seminar, 9-23 May 2017

by Christian Pentzold
Centre for Media, Communication
and Information Research
University of Bremen

In order to capture the socio-technical scaffoldings that enable digitally networked communication and interaction, current scholarship typically resorts to the dubious though alluring notion of ‘affordances’. Usually, this choice of word comes with the idea that technologies make possible some activities while constraining others. As such, the notion is invoked in order to sidestep a technological determinism on the one side and a social determinism on the other.

Bronislaw Malinowski: Don’t Let The Cosplay Fool You

 Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology

If there’s one picture that epitomizes White Guys Doing Research, it’s this one:

The canonical author of the canonical book, naked black people, white guy in white clothes being White  — for a lot of people, it’s totally crazy-making. But in many ways, Malinowski was far more more complicated than we given him credit for. There are many people who deserve more criticism for their role in colonialism than Malinowski (just wait for my blog post on Julian Steward). This is not to absolve Malinowski of whatever sins he committed. Rather, it’s just to ask that we remember what he actually did rather than project sins onto him.

Anthropology/Global Health Class Explores Durham Ghost Bikes
Duke Today
These are some of the questions undergraduate students creatively explored this spring in Duke Global Health Institute assistant professor Harris Solomon’s Anthropology and Global Health seminar, which centered around the theme of injury, with ghost ..

 

In Memory of Gill Conquest

Material World by Haidy Geismar

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Gill Conquest on May 5, 2017.

This start-up consultancy is using anthropology, data and design thinking to disrupt

 anthropology / CNBC

The field, in which companies advise public and private sector players on projects related to economic development, traditionally uses a top-down strategy. Zeroth Labs, however, takes that a step further with an adaptive approach to problem solving and

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Turkey, admirer of Trump administration, now furious after the YPG decision…

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Turkey’s president raises tensions with criticism of Israel

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Kareem Shaheen in Istanbul

Israeli foreign ministry responds to strong remarks about treatment of Palestinians by condemning Turkish human rights record

Tensions have resurfaced between Turkey and Israel, with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan criticising the “racist and discriminatory” treatment of Palestinians, and Israel responding by summoning the Turkish ambassador and condemning Ankara’s human rights record.

Trump to Arm Syrian Kurds, Even as Turkey Strongly Objects

NYT > Turkey by By MICHAEL R. GORDON and ERIC SCHMITT

American commanders have long argued for arming the Y.P.G., a Kurdish militia with some of the most experienced fighters in the battle against the Islamic State.

Turkey furious at US decision to arm Syrian Kurdish group

Ankara registers its opprobrium at Washington following President Trump’s decision to army the YPG in spite of Turkey’s entreaties

YPG Spokesperson: US’ Arms Aid is a Historical Decision

Bianet :: English

Following the US President Trump approving the legislation concerning arms aid to the YPG, the YPG in its statement said that it is a historical decision.

US to directly arm Syrian Kurdish YPG, Pentagon confirms

President Donald Trump has authorized arming the Syrian Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG) in Syria “as necessary to ensure a clear victory” in a planned assault to retake the city of Raqqa from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)

Every weapon obtained by YPG constitutes a threat to Turkey: Turkish FM

Every weapon obtained by the People’s Protection Units (YPG) constitutes a threat to Turkey, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on May 10, emphasizing Ankara’s opposition to a U.S. deal to arming Syrian Kurdish fighters in the battle against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Turkey challenges EU to ‘open new chapters’

Turkey has asked the European Union to open two key accession chapters on fundamental rights and justice in order to improve democracy in the country and continue strategic cooperation

US decision to arm Kurds in Syria poses threat to Turkey, says Ankara

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Kareem Shaheen in Istanbul

Foreign minister criticises US decision but muted Turkish response seen as bid to avoid raising tensions before Trump-Erdoğan meeting
The Turkish government has criticised a US decision to directly arm Kurdish militants in Syria as a “threat to Turkey” – the first diplomatic scuffle between the two Nato powers since President Donald Trump took office.

Top Turkish Diplomat Assails U.S. Decision to Arm Syrian Kurds

NYT > Turkey by By ANNE BARNARD and PATRICK KINGSLEY

Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu criticized Washington’s decision to arm the Y.P.G. militant group, saying that every weapon that goes to the organization is a threat to Turkey.

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#Journalism agenda: The Worlds of Journalism Study (WJS) releases aggregated data and reports for 67 countries

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The Worlds of Journalism Study (WJS) releases aggregated data and reports for 67 countries. Data and reports are freely available at the project website: http://ift.tt/2qSUTU1.org/

In an unprecedented collaborative effort, the recent study (2012-2016) compiled data on the state of journalism in 67 countries from all inhabited continents. The data is based on standardized interviews with more than 27,500 journalists about pressing issues journalists and news organizations are facing these days, such as journalism’s place in society, professional ethics, editorial autonomy, perceived influences on newsmaking, journalistic trust in public institutions, and the transformation of journalism in the broadest sense.

Reports for each of the following countries (in pdf format) can be accessed at http://ift.tt/2qSUTU1.org/country-reports/

Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bhutan, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Kosovo, Latvia, Malawi, Malaysia, Mexico, Moldova, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Philippines, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, UK, USA

Contact:
WJS Center Thomas Hanitzsch, LMU Munich (hanitzsch@ifkw.lmu.de)
Folker Hanusch, University of Vienna (folker.hanusch@univie.ac.at)

 

NGO: Freedom of the press at lowest point in 13 years

EurActiv.com by Janie Matthews

With populism and authoritarianism on the rise in many countries, global press freedom has taken a blow. In fact, it is at its lowest point in 13 years, according to a US-funded research and advocacy organisation.

Three VR journalism reports you should read right now

Three years of experiences in VR journalism. Three years of countless experiments by journalists who are not afraid of trying out something new. Where does VR journalism stand in terms of technology, storytelling techniques and user expectations? Three reports, published in 2015, 2016 and 2017, tell the story of an exciting medium and its road ahead.

Here’s how this Norwegian publisher built a successful digital subscription model for local news

 Nieman Journalism Lab by Joseph Lichterman

Three years ago, the Norwegian publisher Amedia, which owns 62 local and regional outlets across the country, introduced a digital subscription strategy, starting with a universal login system across all its newspapers’ platforms it called aID.

And it’s found remarkable success: Since launching in April 2014, the company has signed up about 130,000 digital subscribers — more than any American newspaper aside from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. That’s in Norway, a country with a population of about 5 million people. (By way of comparison, Gannett — which includes over 100 daily newspapers and operates in the much larger U.S. and U.K. — just announced it had crossed 250,000 paying digital-only subscribers last week.)

Bloomberg is launching a 24-hour, 7-days-a-week news channel that streams exclusively on Twitter

 Nieman Journalism Lab by Shan Wang

If you’re glued to Twitter 24 hours a day, 7 days a week anyway, Bloomberg will soon be there for you at all hours of the day, every day of the week.

Twitter and Bloomberg have partnered to create a 24-hour streaming news service, currently unnamed and launching sometime in the fall, according to The Wall Street Journal. More details will be announced today during Monday’s NewFronts, an Interactive Advertising Bureau-organized extravaganza where digital media companies pitch themselves to advertisers. (Bloomberg is up at 3 p.m.)

Republicans seem more susceptible to fake news than Democrats (but liberals, don’t feel too comfy yet)

Nieman Journalism Lab by Laura Hazard Owen

The growing stream of reporting on and data about fake news, misinformation, partisan content, and news literacy is hard to keep up with. This weekly roundupoffers the highlights of what you might have missed.

“Misinformation is currently predominantly a pathology of the right.” A team of scholars from the Harvard Kennedy School and Northeastern University a report, “Combating Fake News: An Agenda for Research and Action,” this week, drawing on research presented at a February conference they hosted:

As a research community, we identified three courses of action that can be taken in the immediate future: involving more conservatives in the discussion of misinformation in politics, collaborating more closely with journalists in order to make the truth “louder,” and developing multidisciplinary community-wide shared resources for conducting academic research on the presence and dissemination of misinformation on social media platforms.

Jimmy Wales on Wikitribune’s business model and why it might cover not just politics but also dog breeding

Nieman Journalism Lab by Laura Hazard Owene

Wikitribune, the crowdfunded news platform from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, was announced last week, but we’ve seen relatively few details about how it will run and the kinds of topics it will cover.

On Thursday, I got the chance to talk to Wales about some of his goals for the site. (And for a bunch of good questions that I didn’t ask, see his recent Reddit AMA.)

Pure citizen journalism has “hit a wall,” Wales said. Wikitribune is set up as a for-profit site that will be entirely funded by readers, though he’s also putting in some money himself. The site will focus on general news coverage, particularly politics, at first, he said — but his longer-term goal is that it will cover more niche topics like Bitcoin and dog breeding.

Hands across America: How to make local/national journalism collaborations work

Nieman Journalism Lab by Tim Griggs

1. Distribution/syndication: In other words, greater reach. National news organizations have a practical where-mission-meets-business opportunity here: Because they’re not bound by geography, they need distribution to reach and connect with new audiences. Many of the national news organizations I’ve spoken to say audience development is their core strategic challenge — namely “how do we reach more of the people that matter for our mission and our revenue?” There are many components of building an audience, of course (social, search, email, great digital products, “sticky” user experiences, etc.). Distribution relationships can also fuel growth. For example, The Washington Post’s partner program provides complimentary digital subscriptions as a perk to subscribers of a large number of local papers across the country and is one of the contributing factors to its huge digital audience growth of late. Distribution arrangements can also work in reverse (local news on national sites), although achieving any sense of scale is less valuable to local sites that are typically more focused on engagement in their communities. Ways to partner on distribution:

Schibsted is creating new editorial formats — from messaging to personalized homepages

Nieman Journalism Lab by Joseph Lichterman

Last year, the giant Scandinavian publisher Schibsted restructured its product team. It centralized its efforts, creating one unified product and technology group that worked across all its publications. The idea was that the product team would be able to work with individual publications to develop new products before scaling them out to the rest of the company.

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Culture wars Turkish style: TV stations fined for Victoria’s Secret show; TV dating shows banned with new state of emergency decree…

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Victoria’s Secret show is ‘not a Turkish tradition,’ watchdog warns TV stations

Turkey’s television regulator has fined private broadcasters Star TV and NTV for suggesting that watching the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on New Year’s Eve “is part of Turkish traditions”

Turkey bans TV dating shows with new state of emergency decree

Turkey banned television dating shows with a new state of emergency decree published in the Official Gazette on April 29

Turkey blocks Wikipedia

 Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza

The online encyclopedia Wikipedia is inaccessible in Turkey, with officials saying it was blocked as an “administrative measure” thereby explaining why the courts weren’t involved. Turkish media says the government asked Wikipedia to take stuff down, but was ignored.

Turkey sacks 4,000 more officials in coup-bid crackdown

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The latest purge comes alongside a ban on TV dating shows and the blocking of the website Wikipedia.

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