ANTH245
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ANTH 245 -- The Anthropology of the Information Society
Professor Rafael Alvarado
STUDENTS: Please use Blackboard to access course information. This site is available through Blackboard as well.
Fall 2007
Contents |
Lectures
Culture as Information
Cybernetic Anthropology
Computational Anthropology
Information as Culture
Ethnography of Computing
Informational Cultures
- Oct 08 -- Postmodernism
- Oct 22 -- Databasification
- Oct 29 -- Virtual Community
- Nov 12 -- Into the Blogosphere
- Nov 19 -- Blogs and|as Selves
- Nov 26 -- Neuromancer
- Dec 03 -- Conclusion
Readings
Note to students: this section is experimental; please do not use these for your readings at this point.
- Anderson, 1997, Imagined Communities (Excerpts)
- Biggs, 1986, "Cybernetics in a Post-structuralist Landscape"
- Dewey, 1897, "My Pedagogic Creed"
- Forsythe, 1993, "The Construction of Work in Artificial Intelligence"
- Frankfort, 1986, "On Bullshit"
- Gibson, 1984, Neuromancer
- Levi-Strauss, 1951, "Language and the Analysis of Social Laws"
- Levi-Strauss, 1955, "The Structural Study of Myth"
- Lyotard, 1979, The Postmodern Condition
- Manovich, 2001, "Database as Symbolic Form"
- McGann, 2004, "A Note on the Current State of Humanities Scholarship"
- Suchman, 1988, "Representing Practice in Cognitive Science"
- Tonnies, 1887, "On Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft"
