Forthcoming Current Anthropology Wenner-Gren Symposium Current Anthropology Supplementary Issues (in order of appearance) VOLUME 58 SUPPLEMENT 15 FEBRUARY 2017 Fire and the Genus Homo. Francesco Berna and Dennis Sandgathe, eds. Current Human Colonization of Asia in the Late Pleistocene. Christopher Bae, Michael Petraglia, and Katerina Douka, eds. The Anthropology of Corruption. Sarah Muir and Akhil Gupta, eds. Anthropology Previously Published Supplementary Issues Working Memory: Beyond Language and Symbolism. Thomas Wynn and THE WENNER-GREN SYMPOSIUM SERIES Frederick L. Coolidge, eds. Engaged Anthropology: Diversity and Dilemmas. Setha M. Low and February 2017 Sally Engle Merry, eds. NEW MEDIA, NEW PUBLICS? Corporate Lives: New Perspectives on the Social Life of the Corporate Form. Damani Partridge, Marina Welker, and Rebecca Hardin, eds. GUEST EDITORS: CHARLES HIRSCHKIND, MARIA JOSÉ A. DE ABREU, AND CARLO CADUFF The Origins of Agriculture: New Data, New Ideas. T. 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Telephone: (773) 753-3347 or toll-free in the United States and Canada Current Anthropology Volume 58 Supplement 15 February 2017 New Media, New Publics? Leslie C. Aiello New Media, New Publics? Wenner-Gren Symposium Supplement 15 S1 Charles Hirschkind, Maria José A. de Abreu, and Carlo Caduff New Media, New Publics? An Introduction to Supplement 15 S3 Kajri Jain Gods in the Time of Automobility S13 Patricia Spyer Reel Accidents: Screening the Ummah under Siege in Wartime Maluku S27 Martin Zillinger Graduated Publics: Mediating Trance in the Age of Technical Reproduction S41 Rebecca L. Stein GoPro Occupation: Networked Cameras, Israeli Military Rule, and the Digital Promise S56 Joseph Masco The Crisis in Crisis S65 Christopher M. Kelty Too Much Democracy in All the Wrong Places: Toward a Grammar of Participation S77 Gabriella Coleman From Internet Farming to Weapons of the Geek S91 Winnie Won Yin Wong Speculative Authorship in the City of Fakes S103 Alexander S. Dent Paraguayan Horses: The Entailments of Internet Policy and Law in Brazil S113 http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CA Rosalind C. Morris Mediation, the Political Task: Between Language and Violence in Contemporary South Africa S123 Zeynep Devrim Gürsel Visualizing Publics: Digital Crowd Shots and the 2015 Unity Rally in Paris S135 Mary Murrell Out of Print: The Orphans of Mass Digitization S149 Samuel Weber Afterword: The New-Old Media S160 Current Anthropology Volume 58, Supplement 15, February 2017 S1 New Media, New Publics? Wenner-Gren Symposium Supplement 15 Leslie C. Aiello Figure 1. Participants in the symposium “New Media, New Publics?” Front row, from left: Laurie Obbink (Wenner-Gren), Joe Masco, Daniel Salas (Wenner-Gren), Gabriella Coleman, Rosalind Morris, Mary Murrell, Maria José de Abreu (organizer), Patsy Spyer, Kajri Jain, Winnie Won Yin Wong, Rosa Norton. Second row, from left: Chris Kelty, Rebecca Stein, Charles Hirschkind (organizer), Zeynep Gürsel, Sha Xin Wei, Martin Zillinger, Alex Dent, Carlo Caduff (organizer), Leslie Aiello (Wenner-Gren). A color version of this figure is available online. New Media, New Publics? was the 151st symposium in the of California, Berkeley), Maria José de Abreu (Columbia Wenner-Gren series and is the fifteenth open-access supple- University), and Carlo Caduff (Kings College London) and ment of the Foundation’s journal, Current Anthropology. The was held March 13–19, 2015, at Tivoli Palácio de Seteais in symposium was organized by Charles Hirschkind (University Sintra, Portugal (fig. 1). Technological advancements falling under the category of “ ” Leslie C. Aiello is President of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for new media are pervasive in modern society around the world, Anthropological Research (470 Park Avenue South, 8th Floor North, and it is rare to see particularly young people on the streets New York, New York 10016, USA). without a smart phone in hand. New media is changing the way q 2017 by The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. All rights reserved. 0011-3204/2017/58S15-0001$10.00. DOI: 10.1086/689028 S2 Current Anthropology Volume 58, Supplement 15, February 2017 people engage with each other as well as the conditions of social 2013), economic crises and the economy (Narotzky and Bes- and societal mobilization. Connectivity and interactivity also nier 2014), and poverty in urban environments (Das and Ran- are related to issues of surveillance, data and mega-data mining, deria 2015). They also resonate