Primus M. Tazanu

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I hold a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Freiburg, Germany (2011) and an MA in Development and International Relations, University of Aalborg, Denmark (2004). From 2015 to 2017, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. I have also been as a guest lecturer at the universities of Buea (Cameroon), Basel (Switzerland) and Freiburg. 

My research focuses on social practices and the production of meanings through media technologies:  new/social media and transnational relationships, media and Pentecostalism as well as media and racism. I am interested on the ways in which the liveness of media influences sociality and users’ sensory experiences, expectations and distanciations that arise in mediated communication, smartphones/social media and connectivity, smartphones/social media and electronic identities, media and self-presentation. My research on Pentecostalism revolves around the mediatization of Christian beliefs and practices in Cameroon. As concerns racism online, I look at racist discourse and representations, philosophical anthropology, questions of freedom, decoloniality and social justice.