Papers

Osorio, F. and J. Postill 2010.  Mobile rewards: a critical review of the Mobiles for Development (M4D) literature. Paper to the Media Anthropology Network workshop: The Rewards of Media, EASA2010: Crisis and imagination, Maynooth (Ireland), 24-27 August 2010.

Postill, J. 2010. Social media activism: three working assumptions. Paper to the symposium Networking Democracy? New Media Innovations in Participatory Politics Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania, 25-27 June 2010

Postill, J. 2009 The weakness of weak ties: personal media and social leadership in a Kuala Lumpur suburb. Paper to the Anthropology Department, University of Vienna, 5 May 2009  abstract; full draft

Postill, J. 2009 Two modes of governance, one social field: digital media and residential affairs in a Kuala Lumpur suburb. Presentation to the workshop Modes of Governance in Digitally Networked Environments, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University, 26 March 2009.

Postill, J. 2009 Invited lecture ‘Tecnologías personales y liderazgo social en zonas residenciales: los casos de Kuala Lumpur, Toronto, Melbourne y Tel Aviv’, Department of Sociology II, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, 20 February 2009.

Postill, J. 2009 Local leadership, personal media: a practice-theoretical approach. Invited lecture to the Department for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Passau, 28 January 2009.

Postill, J. 2008 Keynote to Mending the Gaps: Re-Thinking Media Theory and Practice symposium, Centre for Media and Film Studies,  School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, 10 May 2008.

Postill, J. 2008 From action groups to smart mobs: a review of old and new conceptualisations of ad-hoc political action. Paper to the 58th Political Studies Association Annual, Swansea University, Wales, 1-3 April 2008.

Postill, J. 2008 New media audiences: recent anthropological research. Invited public lecture, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Cambridge University, 11 March 2008

Postill, J. 2007 The elements of media: a field theoretical exploration. Invited presentation to the German Anthropological Association (DGV) conference, Martin Lüther University, Wittenberg-Halle, 4 October 2007.

Postill, J. 2007 Field theory and the political process black box: analysing internet activism in a Kuala Lumpur suburb, antropologi.info blog.

Postill, J. 2007 The study of media and literacy beyond the ideological paradigm. Invited presentation to the symposium ‘Ecriture and Literacy: the constitution of a field of research in Great Britain and France’ École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) Paris, 25 June 2007

Postill, J. 2007 From action-sets to smart mobs: a review of old and new conceptualisations of sociality in action. Paper to the workshop ‘Old And New Reconceptualizations of Sociality’ Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) Annual Conference, Toronto University, 8-12 May 2007.

Postill, J. 2006 Internet activism and local government in Malaysia. Invited seminar presentation, Anthropology Department, Durham University, 1 November 2006.

Postill, J. 2006 New mediators and e-governance in a Kuala Lumpur suburb, 1999-2005. Paper to the EASA conference, Bristol, 18-21 September.

Postill, J. 2006 Media change and the limits of field theory. Paper to the conference ‘Media Change and Social Theory’, 6-8 September 2006, St Hughs College, the University of Oxford.

Postill, J. 2006 Dramas, fields, and threads: exploring sociality in a Malaysian cyberdistrict. Paper to the workshop ‘Complementing Community: Expanding the Conceptual Repertoire of Sociation’ Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) Annual Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, May 9-15 2006.

Postill, J. 2006 Media change and the limits of field theory. Paper to the conference ‘Media Change and Social Theory’, 6-8 September 2006, St Hughs College, the University of Oxford.

Postill, J. 2006 The proliferation of social technologies and its challenge to anthropological theories of urban sociation, Paper to the ASA Diamond Jubilee Conference Keele, April 2006.

Postill, J. 2005 A few comments on media and sociation. Paper to the EASA Media Anthropology Workshop ‘Using anthropological theory to understand media forms and practices’, Loughborough University, 9 December 2005.

Postill, J. 2005 Internet y epidemiología cultural en Malasia: reflexiones desde la antropología cognitiva. Paper to the Spanish Anthropology Conference, Seville, September 2005.

Postill, J. 2005 Smarting partners: the case of SJ2005, a failed smart community from Malaysia. Paper to the Community Informatics Conference, Cape Town, August 2005.

Postill, J. 2005 Media anthropology in a world of states. Paper to the EASA Media Anthropology e-Seminar, 19-26 April 2005.

Postill, J. 2004 New Media and local governance in a multiethnic suburb of Kuala Lumpur. Paper to Culture and Media Analysis Research Group (CaMarg), University of Loughborough, UK, 14 October 2004.

Postill, J. 2004 Running suburbia: new media and local governance in Subang Jaya. Paper to the 4th International Malaysian Studies Conferences, UKM, Bangi, Malaysia, 3-5 August 2004.

Postill, J. 2004 E-governance in Subang Jaya: some anthropological findings, ATMA, National University of Malaysia (UKM), 28 February 2004.

Postill, J. 2003 The development of sustainable propaganda. Paper to the conference Cabaran Pembangunan, Dilema Persekitaran (Development Challenges, Environmental Dilemmas) UKM, Bangi, Malaysia 12-13 September 2003.

Postill, J. 2003 Local e-governance in Subang Jaya, Malaysia: a preliminary report. Netcultures research meeting, Anthropology Department, University of Manchester, 10 July 2003.

Postill, J. 2003 Anthropology as a historical science. Public lecture at the Chinese State Assembly Hall, Kuala Lumpur, 30 May 2003.

Postill, J. 2002 The social life and afterlife of Iban TV sets. Anthropology Department Research Seminar, University College London, 9 October 2002.

Postill, J. 2002 Nation-states as culture areas: a comparison of popular media in Bali and Sarawak. Paper to the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Workshop “Globalizing Media and Local Society in Indonesia ”, Leiden, 13–14 September 2002.

Postill, J. 2002 Images, bodies and media: an anthropological introduction. Keynote address to the Anthropological Meeting, Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, 5 June 2002.

Postill, J. 2001 The visual anthropology of non-visual anthropologists. Paper to the Research Group (Graduiertenkolleg) on “Image, Body, Media”, Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, 7 December 2001.

Postill, J. 2001 Using maps and diagrams to teach ethnology. Paper to the panel ‘Iconography in anthropological teaching, research and representation’, part of ‘Working Images’, a joint meeting of the Visual Anthropology Network and Teaching Anthropology Network of the EASA, Museu Nacional de Etnologia, Lisbon, 20th-23rd September 2001.

Postill, J. 2000 Borneo again? Media and the nationalisation of East Malaysia. Paper to the workshop ‘Deterritorialising and Territorialising the Nation’ of the 6th EASA Conference, Krakow, 26-29 July 2000.

Postill, J. 2000 Of popular images and anthropological method. Lecture to the Anthropology Department, University of Heidelberg, 11 July 2000.

Postill, J. 2000 Social anthropology, media and development. Paper to the conference ‘Anthropology, Mass Media and Local Development’. UTAD, Miranda do Douro, Portugal, 24-26 February 2000.

Postill, J. 1999 Ritual, media and sound among the Iban of Malaysian Borneo. Paper to the Symposium ‘Turn on and Tune in: Media and Sound in Anthropology’. University of Frankfurt (Main), 13 December 1999.

Postill, J. 1999 The uneven distribution of visual representations across human regions: a comparative exploration. Lecture to the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, 26 April 1999.

Postill, J. 1999 Ritual, performance and media: the Iban case. Invited presentation to the Media and Religion Workshop, School of Oriental and African Studies. London, 6 March 1999.

Postill, J. 1998 The Iban Section of Radio Televisyen Malaysia. Paper (in Iban) to the workshop on the current situation and futures of Iban-language broadcasting. Kuching, 4 April 1998.

Postill, J. 1998 Media and social change among the Iban of Sarawak: some preliminary reflections. Invited lecture to the Museum of Sarawak in collaboration with the Council for Customary Law. Kuching, 10 April 1998.

Postill, J. 1995 A Sandinist counterattack in Borneo: a late reply to Derek Freeman (in Spanish). Special lecture at the National Museum of Anthropology. Madrid, 2 May 1995.