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1. 1. EASA Biographies M- R

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   John Postill (Staffordshire)
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   Her work and interests relevant to the Media Anthropology Network are as follows: A study of changing gender roles in the Spanish bullfight situated in the contemporary context of the 'media bullfight' and the idea of the bullfighter as 'media star'; An interest in the use of new digital media and hypermedia to create research and pedagogical texts within anthropology; The use of visual methods and media in anthropological research and representation; Collaborative work with John Postill on the production, analysis and representation of visual knowledge about e-governance worlds; Applied Visual Anthropology -- the use of visual media and methods in anthropological work concerned with social intervention.
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   John Postill Lecturer in Media Staffordshire University
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   John Postill is a lecturer in media at Staffordshire University (UK) where he runs the MA in Media Futures and is developing new MA programmes. He is presently working on a book entitled Localising the Internet based on fieldwork he carried out in 2003-2004 on cyberactivism and local government in a Kuala Lumpur suburb. That research was funded by the Volkswagen Foundation through Bremen University. In 1996-8 he did research on 'old media' and nation building among the Iban of East Malaysia (Borneo) as part of a PhD in social anthropology at University College London. Drawing on that research he has published articles on media in relation to literacy, time, ethnicity,nationalism, exchange and pedagogy. His book Media and Nation Building (Oxford and New York: Berghahn) is currently in press.

2. 2. EASA Biographies

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3. 3. EASA Networks

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