Digital Anthropology, 7.5 ECTS
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The digital world is distinguished by a dynamic interplay between society and technology. The emergence of information and communication technology (ICT) has created new premises for social life, characterized by interactivity, communication, networks and translocality. In high tech societies, the Internet and mobile phones have become an integral part of daily life, but digital technology is of growing significance in developing countries as well, not least in relation to globalization. This course examines the development and use of ICT in different social and cultural contexts. Digital technology is treated as a cultural construct, the characteristics and impact of which are analyzed through social science theories of the interplay between technology and society. Ethnographies of Internet and mobile phone use in different parts of the world and in different digital environments will be used to examine issues such as culture, identity and social networks. The course will also examine different ethnographic research methods for digital anthropology.
Area of interests: Human, Social and Political Sciences, and Law
Are you interested in human beings and society? How we function individually and together, what drives us, our learning processes, how rules and laws have been established, and how we interact with each other? If that is the case we have a lot to offer. This area of interest covers anything from Pedagogy, Psychology and Gender Studies, to Statistics, Political Science, Law and many other subjects. Their common denominator is the relation between human beings and society, independent analytical thinking and often an international perspective.
Subject
Social Anthropology
Anthropology deals with the entire range of human social and cultural phenomena in places ranging from corporate boardrooms and think tanks in major cities, to rural markets and war zones in the hinterlands of globalisation. Anthropology inquires into the different ways in which societies are organised and how people make sense of the worlds in which they live. In short, anthropology asks what it means to be human.
The Department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University is a world-leading research institution. Our courses and programs reflect the Department’s commitment to understanding people, ideas, and objects in situ, and how they travel across political and cultural borders, challenging, reinforcing or redrawing them in the process.