*A new e-learning course – Why We Post - The Anthropology of Social Media* A new MOOC – (free e-learning course), called Why We Post - The Anthropology of Social Media is now available for registration. The course will start on 29th February 2016. The course is available in eight languages. English version is on the FutureLearn platform, (a branch of the Open University) at https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/anthropology-social-media/1 Registration for the Chinese, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Tamil and Turkish versions at https://extendstore.ucl.ac.uk/catalog?pagename=why-we-post These versions are not time bound and can be followed at any time and duration from Feb 29th 2016. This five week course is taught by the nine anthropologists whose ethnographic research it is based on. *Week One*: What is social media - Polymedia and Scalable Sociality. The focus upon content rather than platforms. The 9 fieldsites. The practical uses of this research. Main fieldsite – village England *Week Two* – The shift to visual images in communication. Memes as the moral police of the internet. The significance for illiteracy. The diversity of the selfie. Main fieldsites - south Italy, Trinidad. *Week Three* – The impact on politics and gender. Why public social media is more conservative than offline life. The transformation of gender relations in Hindu and Muslim societies. Main fieldsites - south India and southeast Turkey *Week Four* –What we learn from The Chinese platforms. The impact of social media more generally on privacy, on education and on commerce. Main fieldsites – Industrial China, Rural China *Week Five* – The relation between online equality and offline inequality. When social media may not express identity or individuality. Seeing the normative. How the world changed social media. Main fieldsites – northeast Brazil and north Chile. Thanks, Shriram Venkatraman *http://www.ucl.ac.uk/global-social-media <http://www.ucl.ac.uk/global-social-media>*