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Communications and networking, Computing, Communications and ICT, Cultural policy and social change, Culture, Media, 'New' and digital media, Political economy, Political economy, Science and technology studies, Social entrepreneurship, Social policy

Adam Fish PhD

Adam Fish PhD

Lecturer

Bowland North
Lancaster University
Bailrigg
Lancaster
United Kingdom
LA1 4YN


As a social anthropologist of digital culture, I investigate the interface of economic and political power, cultural discourses and practices, and networked communication technologies. These interests coalesce into critical and ethnographic investigations into internet and television convergence, media policy, and network activism.

I am presently writing a book about Current TV--the transnational television network at the forefront of internet convergence, media "democratization," and social media integration. I am also conducting fieldwork with communities such as Anonymous YouTube video producers and the UK Pirate Party who are engaged in network activism for "internet freedom."

I am happy to collaborate with students with any of the following research interests: cultural anthropology, digital culture, internet, television, journalism, social media, convergence, indigenous media, media policy, social justice movements, democracy, start-up culture, culture industries, critical theory, neoliberalism, ethnographic methods, the public sphere, and video and television production.

PhD Supervision Interests

I'd be happy to assisant students with any of the interests listed above.

In Press

Participatory television: convergence, crowdsourcing, and neoliberalism

Fish, A. 2013 In: Communication, Culture, and Critique.

Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article

2012

Digital labor is the new killer app

Fish, A. & Srinivasan, R. 02/2012 In: New Media and Society. 14, 1, p. 137-152, 15 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article

2011

Governance of labor in digital video networks

Fish, A. 2011 iConference '11 Proceedings of the 2011 iConference. New York: ACM Press, p. 466-471 6 p.

Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/ProceedingsPaper

Indigenous Digital Media and the History of the Internet on the Columbia Plateau

Fish, A. 2011 In: Journal of Northwest Anthropology. 45, 1, p. 91-114, 24 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article

Film and Archaeology in the Indigenous and Industrial American West

Fish, A. 2011 In: Visual Anthropology. 24, 3, p. 246-265, 20 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article

Revolutionary Tactics, Media Ecologies, and Repressive Regimes

Fish, A. & Srinivsan, R. 2011 In: Public Culture. 23, 3, p. 503-508

Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article

Birds of the Internet: A field guide to understanding action, organization, and the governance of participation

Fish, A., Kelty, C., Murillo, L., Panofsky, A. & Nguyen, L. 2011 In: Journal of Cultural Economy. 4, 2, p. 157-187, 30 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article

2009

Internet Authorship: Social and Political Implications within Kyrgyzstan

Srinivasan, R. & Fish, A. 04/2009 In: Journal of Computer Mediated Communication. 14, 3, p. 559-580, 22 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article

2006

Indigenous Bodies in Colonial Courts: Anthropological Science and the (Physical) Law of the Remaining Human

Fish, A. 2006 In: Wicazo Sa Review . 21, 1, p. 77-95, 19 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalJournal article

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