# Anthropology of Media

## Putting Culture into Media Studies


### Learning Outcomes

By the end of this section, you will be able to:
1. Describe how an anthropologist might use participant observation to study media.
2. Explain the relationship between modernity and media.
3. Give an example illustrating the complex relationship between media and culture.
4. Define the concept of cosmopolitanism.
In this section, the author of this chapter, Jennifer Hasty, describes her own experience using participant observation.