ANTH 2540/UGEC 2665 社交媒體與文化 Social Media and Culture

 

Course Code	ANTH 2540/UGEC 2665 ANTH2540 UGEC2665			科目名稱		Social Media and Culture 社交媒體與文化
教員	Dr. Tim ROSENKRANZ [官方介紹及學術著作]			學　　分		3學分
課程性質	大學通識C範疇			同科其他選擇
Workload	l   PAPER l   MIDTERM l   Blackboard discussion								好重
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									輕	1
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評價教學內容	#1  其實啲 readings 係有趣亦都冇分開喺 tutorial 討論，但係冇理由要用3粒鐘講一篇 reading，同埋其實係冇新觀點帶到出嚟。Assignments 易碌易過畀 grade 合理，但係必須強調人類學 grade margin 窄到傻，想攞 A 唔好 reg。
評價教員教學	#1係好人，但係真係完全唔識教書。我未試過可以每堂都可以經歷十次以上嘅 dead air（佢唔係成日問問題，但係佢自己講嘢都會停好耐）。到咗中後期已經連名都唔想畀佢點，好後悔冇 drop 到，浪費時間之選。我見到佢下年仲會教多啲 course，大家睇路
CUSIS科目資料	Description： This course addresses the ways in which social media and other related interactions in cyberspace have become a central element in the everyday lives of humans across the globe in the 21st Century. Our modern lives are now largely interwoven with digital technologies that have not only changed our own cultures, but also have brought forth new cultural forms through mobile phone technologies, networked “smart”-products, and cultural groupings only possible through digital means. The course approaches the anthropology of these digital cultures through its main themes—the transformation and expansion of social media, social research online, the intermixing of our online and offline lives, critical social issues of online lives, and the question of posthumanism. These themes are addressed explicitly in the course, and are also the subtexts of the different lectures, readings, and project work. Students will learn the techniques of online fieldwork and referencing. They will explore a diverse array of new ethnographies on social media: on gender, political movements, online dating, hacking, and gaming culture. These ethnographies also serve to model online social research and provide examples of methodology and design. The social consequences of cyberspace are addressed in the topics of internet pornography, addiction, surveillance, activism, and social networking. Gender and identity issues are a continuous theme throughout the course, highlighting how online lives accentuate already existing dynamics. Hong Kong connections to these subjects will also be critically discussed, often drawing on topical themes presented on blogs and forums. Students will learn of the philosophical questions of posthumanism and the nature of technologically mediated human culture. This serves as a philosophical ballast to the course allowing students to reflect personally on their own experiences and how technology has and will continue to shape their lives. The role of anthropology in understanding and capturing human culture in this context anchors on the investigation of how technology is possibly making us ‘more’ human than previous forms of cultural life.   Learning Outcome： After taking this course students will have learnt how to design and perform online fieldwork and manage digital referencing. l   Students will know of and understand the recent history and development of the internet and key platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, eBay, iTunes, and the ways in which cyberspace has become embedded in the everyday work and social lives of over 2.4 billion internet users. l   Students will be able to explain and discuss the various debates on the social consequences of online technologies with regard to the tensions between online lives and (so called) real lives, or digital dualism. l   Students will be able to address and articulate issues of political and philosophical change, activism, addiction, surveillance, the body and visual culture in connection to mobile technologies. l   Students will know of some philosophical discussions on the nature of humanity in this new epoch. The question of humanity, posthuman futures, and transhumanism is a key concern that runs throughout the course. Students will also come to consider social media and our changing digital cultures as deeply significant to new understandings of gender and body identity.
其他資料	2023Sem2：學位 15|註冊 3|剩餘 12 [UGEC] 2023Sem2：學位 15|註冊 9|剩餘 6 [ANTH]
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