John Postill (PhD, UCL) is an Anglo-Spanish anthropologist currently working at RMIT University, in Melbourne. He specialises in the study of media, communication and socio-political change. To date he has conducted fieldwork in Malaysia, Indonesia, Spain and (online) in the Anglosphere. He is the author of numerous publications, including The Anthropology of Digital Practices: Dispatches from the Online Culture Wars (2024, Routledge) and The Rise of Nerd Politics (2018, Pluto). At present he is researching the online culture wars globally.

• Online Culture Wars
• Content Creation
• Identity Politics
• Global Politics
• Polarisation
• Southeast Asia, Europe, the Global South

• Postill, J., 2024. The anthropology of digital practices: Dispatches from the online culture wars. Taylor & Francis.
• Postill, J., 2018. The rise of nerd politics. Digital activism and political change. London: Pluto Press.
• Postill, J., 2018. Populism and social media: a global perspective. Media, culture & society, 40(5), pp.754-765.
• Postill, J., 2017. Remote ethnography: Studying culture from afar. In The Routledge companion to digital ethnography (pp. 87-95). Routledge.
• Postill, J., 2014. Democracy in an age of viral reality: A media epidemiography of Spain’s indignados movement. Ethnography, 15(1), pp.51-69.
• Postill, J., 2008. Localizing the internet beyond communities and networks. New Media & Society, 10(3), pp.413-431.
• Postill, J., 2006. Media and nation building: How the Iban became Malaysian. Berghahn Books.
• Postill, J. and Pink, S., 2012. Social media ethnography: The digital researcher in a messy web. Media International Australia, 145(1), pp.123-134.
• Pink, S., Horst, H., Postill, J. Lewis, T., Hjorth, 2015. Digital ethnography: Principles and practice.
• Bräuchler, B. and Postill, J. eds., 2010. Theorising media and practice (Vol. 4). Berghahn Books.