This podcast accompanies a free 5-week e-course called Why We Post: the Anthropology of Social Media, available on FutureLearn in English (https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/anthropology-social-media/) and on UCLeXtend in Tamil, Hindi, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese, and Turkish (https://extendstore.ucl.ac.uk/catalog?pagename=why-we-post).

The course follows the research of a team of anthropologists at UCL Anthropology who studied the uses and consequences of social media for people's lives around the world. www.ucl.ac.uk/why-we-post.

The Anthropology of Social Media: your questions answered

This podcast accompanies a free 5-week e-course called Why We Post: the Anthropology of Social Media, available on FutureLearn in English (www.futurelearn.com/courses/anthrop…y-social-media/) and on UCLeXtend in Tamil, Hindi, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese, and Turkish (extendstore.ucl.ac.uk/catalog?pagename=why-we-post). This podcast relates particularly to Step 1.6 of the course where we define social media as 'scalable sociality'.

The course follows the research of a team of anthropologists at UCL Anthropology who studied the uses and consequences of social media for people's lives around the world. www.ucl.ac.uk/why-we-post.

The Anthropology of Social Media: Scalable Sociality

Read Daniel Miller's blog post on social media and Brexit here: http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/global-social-media/2016/06/27/social-media-and-brexit/

This podcast accompanies a free 5-week e-course called Why We Post: the Anthropology of Social Media, available on FutureLearn in English (www.futurelearn.com/courses/anthrop…y-social-media/) and on UCLeXtend in Tamil, Hindi, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese, and Turkish (extendstore.ucl.ac.uk/catalog?pagename=why-we-post). This podcast relates particularly to Step 1.6 of the course where we define social media as 'scalable sociality'.

The course follows the research of a team of anthropologists at UCL Anthropology who studied the uses and consequences of social media for people's lives around the world. www.ucl.ac.uk/why-we-post.

The Anthropology of Social Media: Brexit, Politics, and Social Media

This podcast accompanies a free 5-week e-course called Why We Post: the Anthropology of Social Media, available on FutureLearn in English (www.futurelearn.com/courses/anthrop…y-social-media/) and on UCLeXtend in Tamil, Hindi, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese, and Turkish (extendstore.ucl.ac.uk/catalog?pagename=why-we-post). This podcast relates particularly to Week 2 of the course where we focus on the rise of visual communication online.

The course follows the research of a team of anthropologists at UCL Anthropology who studied the uses and consequences of social media for people's lives around the world. www.ucl.ac.uk/why-we-post.

The Anthropology of Social Media: visual communication

This podcast accompanies a free 5-week e-course called Why We Post: the Anthropology of Social Media, available on FutureLearn in English (https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/anthropology-social-media/) and on UCLeXtend in Tamil, Hindi, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese, and Turkish (extendstore.ucl.ac.uk/catalog?pagename=why-we-post). This podcast relates particularly to Week 4 of the course where we focus on the Chinese fieldsites.

The course follows the research of a team of anthropologists at UCL Anthropology who studied the uses and consequences of social media for people's lives around the world. www.ucl.ac.uk/why-we-post.

The Anthropology of Social Media: China - Week 4

Laura Haapio-Kirk is a SoundCloud Fellow

A podcast exploring how to bring anthropology to the people, from UCL Anthropology.

"Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment, and wonder at that which one would not have been able to guess." - Margaret Mead

Recorded and produced by Laura Haapio-Kirk at UCL Anthropology. Laura is a research assistant on the Why We Post project which examines the consequences of social media for people's lives in 9 communities around the world.

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