Birgit Bräuchler is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. She is author of Cyberidentities at War (2013, Berghahn), The Cultural Dimension of Peace (2015, Palgrave), editor of Reconciling Indonesia (2009, Routledge), co-editor of Theorising Media and Conflict (2020, Berghahn) with Philipp Budka and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals.

• List of FiguresPrefaceIntroduction: Theorising Media and PracticeJohn PostillPART I: MEDIA AS PRACTICEChapter 1. Theorising Media as PracticeNick CouldryChapter 2. What Do We Mean by ‘Media Practices’?Mark Hobart Chapter 3. Media as Practice: A Brief ExchangeNick Couldry and Mark HobartPART II: MEDIA, CULTURE AND PRACTICEChapter 4. From Fan Practice to Mediated Moments: The Value of Practice Theory in the Understanding of Media AudiencesS. Elizabeth BirdChapter 5. Thick Context, Deep Epistemology: A Meditation on Wide-Angle Lenses on Media, Knowledge Production and the Concept of CultureDebra SpitulnikChapter 6. ‘But It Is My Habit to Read the Times’: Metaculture and Practice in the Reading of Indian NewspapersMark A. PetersonChapter 7. Embedded/Embedding Media Practices and Cultural ProductionUrsula RaoPART III: MEDIA PRACTICES IN CONTEXTChapter 8. Communication, Cognition and Usage: Epistemological Considerations of Media Practices and ProcessesGuido IpsenChapter 9. Language-games, In/dividuals and Media Uses: What a Practice Perspective Should Imply for Media StudiesJo Helle-ValleChapter 10. A Barthian Approach to Practice and Media: Internet Engagements among Teleworkers in Rural DenmarkJens KjaerulffChapter 11. Can Practice Theory Inspire Studies of ICTs in Everyday Life?Toke H. Christensen and Inge RøpkePART IV: NEW MEDIA PRODUCTION PRACTICESChapter 12. Playful Practices: Theorising ‘New Media’ Cultural ProductionElisenda Ardèvol, Antoni Roig, Gemma San Cornelio, Ruth Pagès and Pau AlsinaChapter 13. Theorising the Practices of Free Software: The MovementChristopher Kelty 1Chapter 14. Cinematography and Camera Crew: Practice, Process and ProcedureCathy GreenhalghNotes on ContributorsIndexList of Figures

“This book is extremely thought provoking and makes an important contribution to current debates about the nature and scope of media ethnography. It includes the work of some of the most outstanding scholars working at the intersection of media studies and media ethnography, and many of the individual chapters make important contributions to the field.”  ·  Virginia Nightingale, University of Western Sydney“This is a worthy, potentially important book, very likely to have a substantial influence in the growing interdisciplinary fields of media studies and media anthropology. It is a well conceived and timely contribution to a set of ongoing conceptual debates and is successful in both representing those debates and participating in them. It deserves to be widely read.”  ·  Eric W. Rothenbuhler, Texas A&M University

Birgit Bräuchler is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. She is author of Cyberidentities at War (2013, Berghahn), The Cultural Dimension of Peace (2015, Palgrave), editor of Reconciling Indonesia (2009, Routledge), co-editor of Theorising Media and Conflict (2020, Berghahn) with Philipp Budka and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals.

• List of FiguresPrefaceIntroduction: Theorising Media and PracticeJohn PostillPART I: MEDIA AS PRACTICEChapter 1. Theorising Media as PracticeNick CouldryChapter 2. What Do We Mean by ‘Media Practices’?Mark Hobart Chapter 3. Media as Practice: A Brief ExchangeNick Couldry and Mark HobartPART II: MEDIA, CULTURE AND PRACTICEChapter 4. From Fan Practice to Mediated Moments: The Value of Practice Theory in the Understanding of Media AudiencesS. Elizabeth BirdChapter 5. Thick Context, Deep Epistemology: A Meditation on Wide-Angle Lenses on Media, Knowledge Production and the Concept of CultureDebra SpitulnikChapter 6. ‘But It Is My Habit to Read the Times’: Metaculture and Practice in the Reading of Indian NewspapersMark A. PetersonChapter 7. Embedded/Embedding Media Practices and Cultural ProductionUrsula RaoPART III: MEDIA PRACTICES IN CONTEXTChapter 8. Communication, Cognition and Usage: Epistemological Considerations of Media Practices and ProcessesGuido IpsenChapter 9. Language-games, In/dividuals and Media Uses: What a Practice Perspective Should Imply for Media StudiesJo Helle-ValleChapter 10. A Barthian Approach to Practice and Media: Internet Engagements among Teleworkers in Rural DenmarkJens KjaerulffChapter 11. Can Practice Theory Inspire Studies of ICTs in Everyday Life?Toke H. Christensen and Inge RøpkePART IV: NEW MEDIA PRODUCTION PRACTICESChapter 12. Playful Practices: Theorising ‘New Media’ Cultural ProductionElisenda Ardèvol, Antoni Roig, Gemma San Cornelio, Ruth Pagès and Pau AlsinaChapter 13. Theorising the Practices of Free Software: The MovementChristopher Kelty 1Chapter 14. Cinematography and Camera Crew: Practice, Process and ProcedureCathy GreenhalghNotes on ContributorsIndexList of Figures

“This book is extremely thought provoking and makes an important contribution to current debates about the nature and scope of media ethnography. It includes the work of some of the most outstanding scholars working at the intersection of media studies and media ethnography, and many of the individual chapters make important contributions to the field.”  ·  Virginia Nightingale, University of Western Sydney“This is a worthy, potentially important book, very likely to have a substantial influence in the growing interdisciplinary fields of media studies and media anthropology. It is a well conceived and timely contribution to a set of ongoing conceptual debates and is successful in both representing those debates and participating in them. It deserves to be widely read.”  ·  Eric W. Rothenbuhler, Texas A&M University

Birgit Bräuchler is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. She is author of Cyberidentities at War (2013, Berghahn), The Cultural Dimension of Peace (2015, Palgrave), editor of Reconciling Indonesia (2009, Routledge), co-editor of Theorising Media and Conflict (2020, Berghahn) with Philipp Budka and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals.

• List of FiguresPrefaceIntroduction: Theorising Media and PracticeJohn PostillPART I: MEDIA AS PRACTICEChapter 1. Theorising Media as PracticeNick CouldryChapter 2. What Do We Mean by ‘Media Practices’?Mark Hobart Chapter 3. Media as Practice: A Brief ExchangeNick Couldry and Mark HobartPART II: MEDIA, CULTURE AND PRACTICEChapter 4. From Fan Practice to Mediated Moments: The Value of Practice Theory in the Understanding of Media AudiencesS. Elizabeth BirdChapter 5. Thick Context, Deep Epistemology: A Meditation on Wide-Angle Lenses on Media, Knowledge Production and the Concept of CultureDebra SpitulnikChapter 6. ‘But It Is My Habit to Read the Times’: Metaculture and Practice in the Reading of Indian NewspapersMark A. PetersonChapter 7. Embedded/Embedding Media Practices and Cultural ProductionUrsula RaoPART III: MEDIA PRACTICES IN CONTEXTChapter 8. Communication, Cognition and Usage: Epistemological Considerations of Media Practices and ProcessesGuido IpsenChapter 9. Language-games, In/dividuals and Media Uses: What a Practice Perspective Should Imply for Media StudiesJo Helle-ValleChapter 10. A Barthian Approach to Practice and Media: Internet Engagements among Teleworkers in Rural DenmarkJens KjaerulffChapter 11. Can Practice Theory Inspire Studies of ICTs in Everyday Life?Toke H. Christensen and Inge RøpkePART IV: NEW MEDIA PRODUCTION PRACTICESChapter 12. Playful Practices: Theorising ‘New Media’ Cultural ProductionElisenda Ardèvol, Antoni Roig, Gemma San Cornelio, Ruth Pagès and Pau AlsinaChapter 13. Theorising the Practices of Free Software: The MovementChristopher Kelty 1Chapter 14. Cinematography and Camera Crew: Practice, Process and ProcedureCathy GreenhalghNotes on ContributorsIndexList of Figures

“This book is extremely thought provoking and makes an important contribution to current debates about the nature and scope of media ethnography. It includes the work of some of the most outstanding scholars working at the intersection of media studies and media ethnography, and many of the individual chapters make important contributions to the field.”  ·  Virginia Nightingale, University of Western Sydney“This is a worthy, potentially important book, very likely to have a substantial influence in the growing interdisciplinary fields of media studies and media anthropology. It is a well conceived and timely contribution to a set of ongoing conceptual debates and is successful in both representing those debates and participating in them. It deserves to be widely read.”  ·  Eric W. Rothenbuhler, Texas A&M University