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Course Code |
ANTH2540 UGEC2665 |
科目名稱 |
Social Media
and Culture 社交媒體與文化 |
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教員 |
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大學通識C範疇 |
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l PAPER l MIDTERM l Blackboard discussion |
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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。 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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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