Universität Wien

240531 SE Digital Anthropology (P4) (2015W)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 24 - Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Continuous assessment of course work

Participation at first session is obligatory!

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 40 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

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

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

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.

Assessment and permitted materials

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

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

Examination topics

Reading list

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

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