Universität Wien

240531 SE Digital Anthropology (P4) (2015W)

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

Participation at first session is obligatory!

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

  • Montag 23.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Montag 23.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock
  • Donnerstag 26.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Donnerstag 26.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
  • Montag 30.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Montag 30.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock
  • Dienstag 01.12. 09:45 - 11:15 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
  • Donnerstag 03.12. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

Are you curious about digital diversity in our interconnected world? Digital Anthropology explores digital media in different cultural contexts, from social interaction in virtual worlds to mobile mediations of sexual relations and financial transactions. The course provides a critical understanding of technological and social change, especially the relation between globalization and digitalization in the context of global hierarchies and unequal power structures. Ethnographies of digital and mobile media in different parts of the world address issues such as power, identity, friendship, networks, mobility, materiality and virtuality. The course explores various ethnographic research methods, for online and offline studies of digital media. Course instruction consists of lectures and seminars.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Upon completion of the course students are expected to be able to:
- Identify and discuss central theories and concepts in digital anthropology
- Describe and illustrate research methods in digital anthropology
- Formulate a research project in digital anthropology
- Write an academic text with clear references to the course literature

Prüfungsstoff

Literatur

Archambault, Julie Soleil. 2012. ‘Travelling while sitting down’: mobile phones, mobility and the communication landscape in Inhambane, Mozambique. Africa, 82, pp 393-412

Boellstorff, Tom. 2008. Coming of Age in Second Life. An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Hannerz, Ulf. 1992. The global ecumene as a network of networks, in Adam Kuper (ed) Conceptualizing Society. London: Routledge.
Horst, H., & D. Miller. 2005. From Kinship to Link-Up: Cell phones and Social Networking in Jamaica. Current Anthropology, 6(5), 755-778.
Maurer, B., Nelms, T. C. and Rea, S. C. 2013. ‘Bridges to cash’: channelling agency in mobile money. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 19:5274

Miller, Daniel & Horst, Heather A. (eds.). 2012. Digital Anthropology . Oxford: Berg

Uimonen, Paula. 2012. Digital Drama. Teaching and Learning Art and Media in Tanzania. New York: Routledge. http://innovativeethnographies.net/digitaldrama

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:40