- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
Anthropology of the Interent 3002-KON2018K8-OG
Seminar is devoted to the internet as specific cultural phenomenon.
The course is an attempt to show different cultural practices associated with the global digital network and different ways of conceiving and studying internet as a cultural phenomenon, with particular emphasis on the anthropological approach.
One of the seminar objectives is also to discover new cultural practices related to the Internet.
The aim of the seminar is to present and analyze existing phenomena, as well as to search for new practices and phenomena related to the Internet.
Issues:
1. Introduction - a brief history of the Internet.
2. Internet as the future imagined: literature, futurology, cyberpunk, virtual reality, infostrada.
3. Tools of the internet researcher. From netnography to big data.
4. Internet Communities
5. Digital Divide - new
6. Persolanality - identity on the Internet, social media, private-public.
7. Sacrum and profanum
8. A network of emotions: mourning, anger and love on the Internet.
9. Body and network: virtual reality, second body, cyborgization, singularity and AI.
0. Sex and body on the Internet: pornography, objectification, masculinization of cyberculture, cyberfeminism.
11. Alien, different, dangerous - who and what we are afraid of on the web.
12. Space: internet topography, global village, unreal spaces, virtual travels, screens and windows.
13. Things: the materiality of the internet, touch and gesture, Internet of things.
14. Time: always on lifestyle, 24/7.
15. Internet and history, historical policy.
16. Words and writing: conversation, communication on the internet, the concept of remediation.
17. Genres of digital literacy, the future of print.
18. Newspapers, journalism, fan fiction.
19.Knowledge transformation: information bubbles, censorship, memory extents, education.
20.Power - who rules on the Internet - state, corporation, netokracy, Web 2.0.
21. Work and the Internet - Wikinomics, crowdfunding.
22. Images on the web - memes, virals, selfie - power of the images.
23. Moving pictures on the web: the end of television? Cinema and television, new reception practices.
24. Homo ludens: computer games and anthropology.
25. Homo ludens: everything is a game or internet gasification.
26. Performances and games: e-sport, music, celebrities.
27. Practices of resistances - the Internet as a tool of politics and counter-culture.
28. The hero of mass imagination: hacker as a trickster.
29. The hero of mass imagination: geek, nerd and Internet through the prism of popular culture.
30. Sound - the soundscape of internet times.
Type of course
general courses
Mode
Bibliography
1. Richard Barbrook Przyszłości wyobrażone. Od myślącej maszyny do globalnej wioski, Warszawa 2009.
2. Tom Boellstorff Dojrzewanie w Second Life: antropologia człowieka wirtualnego, tłum. Agata Sadza, Wyd. UJ, Kraków 2012.
3. Tom Boellstorff, Bonnie Nardi, Celia Pearce, T.L. Taylor Ethnography and Virtual Worlds. A Handbook of Method, Princeton, Oxford 2012.
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7. Nicolas Carr Płytki umysł. Jak Internet wpływa na nasz mózg, tłum. Katarzyna Rojek, wyd. Helion, Gliwice 2013.
8. Jonathan Crary 24/7. Późny kapitalizm i koniec snu, Kraków 2015.
9. Mirosław Filiciak Wirtualny plac zabaw. Gry sieciowe i przemiany kultury współczesnej, Warszawa 2006.
10. Alexander Halavais Wyszukiwarki internetowe a społeczeństwo, tłum. Tomasz Pudowski, Warszawa 2012.
11. Rafał Ilnicki Kultura Nienawiści na portalach społecznościowych jako zaburzenie tabuizacji, w: „Kultura popularna” 2012 nr 4 (34).
12. Henry Jenkins Kultura konwergencji. Zderzenie starych i nowych mediów, Warszawa 2006.
13. Tim Jordan Hakerstwo, Warszawa 2011.
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17. Kamil Lipiński Jamming i hakowanie jako praktyki oporu, w: „Kultura popularna” 2015, nr 2 (44).
18. Piotr Siuda Sieć objawień, w: „Kultura popularna” 2012 nr 3 (33).
19. Don Tapscott Cyfrowa dorosłość. Jak pokolenie sieci zmienia nasz świat, Warszawa 2010.
20. Piotr Toczyński O sednie terminu social media, w: „Kultura popularna” 2014, nr 3 (41)
21. Sherry Turkle Samotni razem. Dlaczego oczekujemy więcej od zdobyczy techniki, a mniej od siebie nawzajem, Kraków 2013.
22. The Social Media Reader, red. Michael Mandiberg, New York 2012.
Additional information
Information on level of this course, year of study and semester when the course unit is delivered, types and amount of class hours - can be found in course structure diagrams of apropriate study programmes. This course is related to the following study programmes:
- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
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