_______ From: medianthro-bounces@lists.easaonline.org [medianthro-bounces@lists.easaonline.org] On Behalf Of Jens Kjaerulff [jk@socant.net] Sent: 30 April 2010 16:03 To: medianthro@easaonline.org Subject: [Medianthro] Internet and Change - Book Announcement Dear Colleagues, I apologise for the self-promotion. Seeing that the list is used for book announcements by others, I take the liberty to bring my newly released monograph to your attention: Internet and Change: An Anthropology of Knowledge and Flexible Work (Hojbjerg, Intervention Press, 2010) ISBN: 978-87-89825-97-7; 199 pages Details below, and at: http://www.internetandchange.com/ How may internet use be related to social and cultural change? Debates on this question have proliferated. Yet, conceptions of change in such debates have remained conspicuously under-theorized. This book approaches these issues through anthropological research among 'teleworkers', people working via internet from their homes in rural Denmark. Through a rich ethnography of paid work as a cultural practice, and drawing on social science studies of knowledge, it develops a theory of cultural process and change, where particular attention is devoted to the materiality of internet use, and to situated experience, reflection, and agency. The study suggests that telework is mostly practiced informally, and that this form of flexible work is more prevalent than commonly assumed. Against conventional assertions that flexible work promotes alienation, the study argues for a more complex picture, where the cultural conception of 'work' is incrementally changed through new practices of economic engagement. -- Dr. Jens Kjaerulff Lecturer, Social Anthropology School of Social Sciences Arthur Lewis Bld. 2.064 The University of Manchester Oxford Rd. Manchester M13 9PL UK ****************************************** EASA Media Anthropology Network http://www.media-anthropology.net For further information please contact: Dr. John Postill Sheffield Hallam University jpostill@usa.net To manage your subscription to this mailing list, visit: http://lists.easaonline.org/listinfo.cgi/medianthro-easaonline.org