Chapter 12 Content-as-Practice Studying Digital Content with a Media Practice Approach

At the heart of many studies in media anthropology is an interest in media practices. While practice-oriented approaches have gained momentum as of late, there has been little discussion about how they can include particular "media texts" or "media content" into their research de...

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1. Verfasser: Bareither, Christoph (auth)
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