Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date
Thursday, 16.04.2020 14:00 - 15:00
Pre-requisites
Literaturempfehlung: Miller, D. 2018. Digital Anthropology. In The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology (eds) F. Stein, S. Lazar, M. Candea, H. Diemberger, J. Robbins, A. Sanchez & R. Stasch. http://doi.org/10.29164/18digital
Performance record
Studienleistung: Wird in der ersten Stunde bekannt gegeben.
Modulleistung: Hausarbeit
Besonderheiten: Der Kurs wird auf Englisch unterrichtet. Alle Studien- und Modulleistungen werden auf Englisch erbracht.
Brave Newish Worlds, Digital Lives: Online Selves and the Art of Curation, Digital Lives: Virtual Intimacy, Digital Lives: #FakeMedia #BeTheChange #PrayingForOurCountry, Digital Lives: System Hacks, Digital Societies: Cyber Economics, Digital Societies: Healthcare 4.0, Digital Societies: Algorithmic Justice, Digital Societies: States of e-Governance, Digital Anthropology: Doing Digital Ethnography, Digital Anthropology: Knowledge in the Age of Automation, Digital Anthropology: The Robots Are Coming, Digital Anthropology: Working Tech, Live Q&A
Over the past 50 years, digitization has profoundly transformed the functioning of societies across the globe. How we communicate and interact, politics, the organisation of labour and the economy, what we accept to be true and right, with whom we fall in love, our understandings of ourselves and, ultimately, what it means to be human; the digital revolution affects virtually every domain of life. Anthropology is uniquely positioned to reflect on these changes, due to its longstanding commitment to ethnographic fieldwork, its holistic perspective, and its attention to the inherent contradictions and complexities involved in social transformation. Yet, the discipline also finds itself confronted with new questions and challenges, ranging from the practical, to theoretical, methodological, and ethical concerns, for instance regarding online data collection. This course aims to provide participants with the state-of-the-art in digital anthropology. Digital cultures around the world, as well as the latest ideas for studying technology are explored through a selection of readings, discussion, case studies, and hands-on exercises. By the end of the course, students will have gained the requisite knowledge and tools to critically engage with claims about digital technologies and their impact, as well as the skills to examine their design and use.
