The Anthropology of Digital Practices connects for the first time three distinct research areas - digital ethnography, causal ethnography, and media practice theory - to explore how we might track the effects of new media practices in a digital world. It invites media and communication students and scholars to overcome the field-s old aversion to -media effects- and explores the messy, complex, open-ended effects of new media practices in a digital age.
Based on long-term ethnographic research and drawing from recent advances in the study of causality and ethnography, the book tells the -formation story- of the anti-woke movement through a series of critical media events. It argues that digital media practices (e.g. podcasting, YouTubing, tweeting, commenting, broadcasting) will have -formative- effects on an emerging social world at different points in time. One important task of the digital ethnographer is precisely to distinguish between the formative and non-formati
