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Strategies of scarcity and supply: water and bandwidth

The water tankered makes a delivery (Photo: Tom McDonald) Fieldwork normally involves bearing some hardships, however I never thought that at the start of my research in China that water would have...

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Different types of news

Photo by Gabriela Nicolescu There are two local newspapers and a regional one in the Italian town where I am conducting fieldwork. They appear once a week before the weekend and are distributed freely...

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How are numbers important?

Young people in the Italy fieldsite using mobile phones (Photo by Gabriela Nicolescu) This blog post is about some of the significances of the huge difference in the usage of social media between...

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The ideal of education and social networking sites

Schoolroom – Photo by Gerry Balding (Creative Commons) I have spend quite a while now looking at the impact of social media on the education system in the Italian fieldsite. This blog post will present...

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Password sharing: I get by on QQ with a little help from my friends

Friendship is only a shared password away. (Photo by Athena Lao, CC BY 2.0) One of the surprising features of my conversations with primary and middle school students in our rural fieldsite in the...

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What does social media tell us about sociality in Grano?

‘Good morning’ message received on WhatsApp [double-click on the image to see the video].So, what does the ethnography of social media use in southeast Italy tells us? In my forthcoming book I argue...

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