Universität Wien

240530 SE MM3 Digital Visuality and Popular Culture (2024S)

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

Participation at first session is obligatory!

The lecturer can invite students to a grade-relevant discussion about partial achievements. Partial achievements that are obtained by fraud or plagiarized result in the non-evaluation of the course (entry 'X' in certificate). The plagiarism software 'Turnitin' will be used.
The use of AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT) for the attainment of partial achievements is only allowed if explicitly requested by the course instructor.
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Details

max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Donnerstag 07.03. 15:00 - 18:15 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Donnerstag 21.03. 15:00 - 18:15 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Donnerstag 11.04. 15:00 - 18:15 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Donnerstag 25.04. 15:00 - 18:15 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
  • Donnerstag 16.05. 15:00 - 18:15 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Donnerstag 06.06. 15:00 - 18:15 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Donnerstag 20.06. 15:00 - 18:15 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

This course provides an overview about digital visuality as a key phenomenon of contemporary visual culture and its connection to popular culture. By working on ethnographic research projects, students explore the diversity of digital practices, their visual dimension and their meaning for popular cultural processes and phenomena.

With the advent of digital media and technologies, internet-based devices and services, mobile computing as well as software applications and social media platforms new opportunities and challenges have come to the forefront in the anthropological research of visual culture. Digital media technologies have become ubiquitous means of visual communication, interaction and representation. For anthropology it is of particular interest how people engage with digital media technologies and content, how “the digital” is embedded in everyday life and how it relates to different sociocultural phenomena.

One of these phenomena is popular culture: processes and practices related to the production, circulation and consumption of, for example, music, film, fashion and advertisements as well as the construction and mediation of celebrities. Moreover, popular culture is closely connected to other cultural phenomena such as fan culture, public culture and participatory culture. Fans, for instance, engage in various forms of visual productivity and play a crucial role in the creation and circulation of cultural artifacts related to their fandom such as memes.

By working on different case studies, students get a comparative overview about digital visuality and visual aspects of popular culture. Students conduct ethnographic projects and engage with key questions. What theoretical concepts and analytical categories of sociality can be used to study visual and popular culture? How does digital visuality constitute and mediate cultural performances and rituals? How do social media platforms enable and change visual culture and communication? 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.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Course assessment comprises a paper at the end of the semester (50%), the presentation of research projects (20%), and the active participation during the course by reading and discussing selected literature (30%).

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

All assignments have to be completed to successfully pass the course. Course attendance is mandatory.

90% - 100 % Sehr gut (1, Excellent)
80% - 89,9 % Gut (2, Good)
66% - 79,9 % Befriedigend (3, Satisfactory)
50% - 65,9 % Genügend (4, Sufficient)
< 50 % Nicht genügend (5, Insufficient)

Prüfungsstoff

See above.

Literatur

Selected Literature (reading list will be provided in 1st class)

Budka, P., & Bräuchler, B. (eds.). (2020). Theorising media and conflict. Berghahn.
Costa, E., et al. (eds.). (2022). The Routledge companion to media anthropology. Routledge.
Fabian, J. (1998). Moments of freedom: Anthropology and popular culture. University Press of Virginia.
Favero, P. (2018). The present image: Visible stories in a digital habitat. Palgrave Macmillan.
Gómez Cruz, E., et al. (eds.). (2017). Refiguring techniques in digital visual research. Palgrave Macmillan.
Jenkins, H. (2014). Rethinking "rethinking convergence/culture". Cultural Studies, 28(2).
Miller, D., & Sinanan, J. (2017). Visualising Facebook: A comparative perspective. UCL Press.
Miller, D., et al. (2016). How the world changed social media. UCL Press.
Uimonen, P. (2015). Mourning Mandela: Sacred drama and digital visuality in Cape Town. Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, 7(1).

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Fr 08.03.2024 08:46