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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),