Universität Wien

240522 SE Media and visual technologies as material culture (P4) (2015W)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 24 - Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Participation at first session is obligatory!
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An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Details

max. 40 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Donnerstag 08.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Donnerstag 15.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Donnerstag 22.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Donnerstag 29.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Donnerstag 05.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Donnerstag 12.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Donnerstag 19.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Donnerstag 26.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Donnerstag 03.12. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Donnerstag 10.12. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Donnerstag 17.12. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Donnerstag 07.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Donnerstag 14.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Donnerstag 21.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Donnerstag 28.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

Digital media technologies, such as smart phones, laptops, organisers, PDAs, etc., have become important (visual) communication and (re)presentation devices, particularly via the internet and its services. For social and cultural anthropology it is of particular interest how those technologies, objects and artefacts are integrated and embedded into daily practices, by considering changing sociocultural, political and economic contexts. In this course we focus on the material aspects of those technologies and how they are utilized. Questions about the relevance of material culture for technology appropriation as well as questions about different usage practices in an understanding of technology as material culture are discussed.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Course assessment:
1) active participation (max. 3 times absence, 40% of overall performance)
2) written report (joint project reports by research teams, 40%)
3) presentations of joint research projects (20%)

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

This course gives an overview about material culture as conceptual approach to understand media and visual technologies. It focuses on digital media technologies, their visual aspects and how they are integrated and practised in every day life.

Prüfungsstoff

By working on different case studies, students get a comparative overview about material culture in the context of media technologies. Students conduct small empirical research projects within teams. The university's online learning management system is used to provide resources and content as well as to foster student's exchange and communication beyond the classroom.

Literatur

Literature Selection

Appadurai, A. (ed.) 1986. The social life of things: Commodities in cultural perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Boellstorff, T., Nardi, B., Pearce, C. & T.L. Taylor. 2012. Ethnography and virtual worlds: A handbook of method. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Fischer, M. 2007. Four genealogies for a recombinant anthropology of science and technology. Cultural Anthropology 22/4: 539-615.

Hine, C. (ed.) 2005. Virtual methods: Issues in social research on the internet. Oxford: Berg.

Markham, A. & N. Baym. 2009. Internet inquiry: Conversations about method. London: Sage.

Horst, H. & Miller, D. (eds.) 2012. Digital Anthropology. London: Berg.

Miller, D. 1997. Material cultures: Why some things matter. London: Routledge.

Pfaffenberger, B. 1992. Social anthropology of technology. Annual Review of Anthropology, 21, 491-516.

Pink, S. 2005. The future of visual anthropology: engaging the senses. London: Routledge.

Vannini, P. (ed.) 2009. Material culture and technology in everyday life. New York: Peter Lang.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:40