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Author Waltorp, Karen, author

Title Why Muslim women and smartphones : mirror images / Karen Waltorp
Published London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 184 pages)
Contents Foreword / Sarah Pink -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: al-Harakat -- Image list -- Playlist -- A. Smartphone -- B. Hanan al-Noerrebro : affections for the neighborhood -- C. Hijab, desire, social control -- D. The flow of (mirror) images and future-making
Summary "Using an assemblage approach to study how Muslim women in Norrebro in Denmark use their phones, Karen Waltorp examines how social media complicates the divide between public and private in relation to a group of people who find this distinction of utmost significance. Building on years of ethnographic fieldwork, Waltorp's ethnography reflects the trust and creativity of her relationships with these women which in turn open up nuanced discussions about both the subject at hand and best practice in conducting anthropological research. Combining rich ethnography with theoretical contextualization, Waltorp's book alternates between ethnography and analysis to illuminate a thoroughly modern community, and reveals the capacity of image-making technology to function as an infrastructure for seeing, thinking and engaging in fieldwork as an anthropologists. Waltorp identifies a series of important issues around anthropological approaches to new media, contributing to new debates around the anthropology of automation, data and self-tracking. With a strong combination of rich detail and theoretical framing, this will be an important read for students of anthropology, visual culture and ethnography, and Muslim studies"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Muslim women -- Denmark
Smartphones -- Denmark
Social media -- Denmark
Anthropology.
Muslim women
Smartphones
Social media
Denmark
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019037346
ISBN 9781350127364
1350127361
9781350127371
135012737X
9781000182644
1000182649
1003087388
9781003087380