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There are few topics that elicit as much discussion today as the uses and consequences of social media. But can we assume that social media is the same for a female factory worker in China or a male IT professional in south India?

A team of nine anthropologists, funded by an ERC grant, were assembled at the department of anthropology at UCL to investigate this issue. Each researcher spent 15 months carrying out an ethnography in a small town site. These included a factory town and a rural town in China, a town on the Syrian-Turkish border, low income settlements in Brazil and Chile, an IT complex set between villages in South India, and small towns in England, Italy and Trinidad. As part of our project’s ambitious dissemination plan, we want to find new ways of turning global research into global education.

Funded by the European Research Council (ERC Project 2011-AdG-295486).


CREDITS

Filmmaker:
Cassie Quarless

Music:
"Whimsy Groove" by Kevin McLeod, from incompetech.com (attribution CC license).

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