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ANTH 245 -- The Anthropology of the Information Society | '''ANTH 245 -- The Anthropology of the Information Society''' | ||
Professor Rafael Alvarado | Professor Rafael Alvarado | ||
STUDENTS: Please use Blackboard to access course information. This site is available through Blackboard as well. | |||
Fall 2007 | Fall 2007 | ||
=Lectures= | =Lectures= | ||
==[[ANTH245_2007-09-10|Sep 10]] | == Culture as Information == | ||
=== Cybernetic Anthropology === | |||
==[[ANTH245_2007-09-24|Sep 24]]== | * [[ANTH245_2007_09-03|Sep 03 -- Bateson]] | ||
==[[ANTH245_2007-10-01|Oct 01]]== | * [[ANTH245_2007-09-10|Sep 10 -- Rappaport]] | ||
* [[ANTH245_2007-09-17|Sep 17 -- Levi-Strauss]] | |||
=== Computational Anthropology === | |||
* [[ANTH245_2007-09-24|Sep 24 -- QDA and the HRAF]] | |||
== Information as Culture == | |||
=== Ethnography of Computing === | |||
* [[ANTH245_2007-10-01|Oct 01 -- Suchman and Forsythe]] | |||
=== Informational Cultures === | |||
* [[ANTH245_2007-10-08|Oct 08 -- Postmodernism]] | |||
* [[ANTH245_2007-10-23|Oct 22 -- Databasification]] | |||
* [[ANTH245_2007-10-30|Oct 29 -- Virtual Community]] | |||
* [[ANTH245_2007-11-12|Nov 12 -- Into the Blogosphere]] | |||
* [[ANTH245-2007-11-19|Nov 19 -- Blogs and|as Selves]] | |||
* [[ANTH245-2007-11-26|Nov 26 -- Neuromancer]] | |||
* [[ANTH245-2007-12-03|Dec 03 -- Conclusion]] | |||
=Readings= | =Readings= | ||
Note to students: this section is experimental; please do not use these for your readings at this point. | Note to students: this section is experimental; please do not use these for your readings at this point. | ||
* [[Anderson1997|Anderson, 1997, ''Imagined Communities'' (Excerpts)]] | |||
* [[Biggs1986|Biggs, 1986, "Cybernetics in a Post-structuralist Landscape"]] | |||
* [[Dewey1897|Dewey, 1897, "My Pedagogic Creed"]] | |||
* [[Forsythe1993|Forsythe, 1993, "The Construction of Work in Artificial Intelligence"]] | |||
* [[Frankfort1986|Frankfort, 1986, "On Bullshit"]] | |||
* [[Gibson1984|Gibson, 1984, ''Neuromancer'']] | |||
* [[LeviStrauss1951|Levi-Strauss, 1951, "Language and the Analysis of Social Laws"]] | |||
* [[LeviStrauss1955|Levi-Strauss, 1955, "The Structural Study of Myth"]] | |||
* [[Lyotard1979|Lyotard, 1979, ''The Postmodern Condition'']] | |||
* [[Manovich2001|Manovich, 2001, "Database as Symbolic Form"]] | |||
* [[McGann2004|McGann, 2004, "A Note on the Current State of Humanities Scholarship"]] | |||
* [[Suchman1988|Suchman, 1988, "Representing Practice in Cognitive Science"]] | |||
* [[Tonnies1887|Tonnies, 1887, "On Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft"]] | |||
=Links= | |||
== The Self-documenting Global Village == | |||
* [http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/index.html?map.it Real-time edits of Wikipedia on Google Maps] | |||
* [http://flickrvision.com/ Flickrvision] | |||
[[ANTH245_2007_Notes|...]] | [[ANTH245_2007_Notes|...]] | ||
Latest revision as of 15:21, 10 January 2008
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
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"
