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=== Ethnography of Computing === | === Ethnography of Computing === | ||
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=== Informational Cultures === | === Informational Cultures === | ||
* [[ANTH245_2007-10-08|Oct 08 -- Postmodernism]] | * [[ANTH245_2007-10-08|Oct 08 -- Postmodernism]] | ||
Revision as of 02:41, 10 November 2007
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
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"
- Forsythe, 1993, "The Construction of Work in Artificial Intelligence"
- Frankfort, 1986, "On Bullshit"
- 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"
