ASS330 - Cyborg Anthropology
Unit details
| Year: | 2019 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Trimester 2 Unit Chair: | Roland Kapferer |
| Previously: | Human Possibilities in the Age of Digital Communication |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus: | 1 x 1-hour class per week, 1 x 1-hour seminar per week. |
| Scheduled learning activities - cloud (online): | 1-hour class per week (recordings provided),1-hour online seminar per week |
Content
The contemporary revolution in digital information and communication technologies has transformed the worlds of human experience and interaction. Recent social movements and popular uprisings are also increasingly mediated through digital technologies and this has led to ongoing debates concerning the regulation and governance of the Internet. In this unit, students will be introduced to anthropological perspectives that engage these issues. What do new technological discoveries and the interaction of embedded technologies tell us about human beings of today? How are human beings imagined and how is human potential being reconceived in the digital age? What will human beings look like and how will they behave in the future? This course will open up new and exciting ways of thinking about the nature of human being in the context of rapid technological and cultural change, as well asking how human experiences of love, death, culture, gender, identity, community, the body, mind, work and leisure are being transformed in the context of new technologies. Cyborg anthropology is about the world transforming event of modern technological development - it is about the new beings that human beings are becoming.
Assessment
Assessment 1 - Class and Online exercises - 20%
Assessment 2 - Online quizzes - 20%
Assessment 3 - Essay - 40%
Assessment 4 - Multi-media project - 20%
Unit Fee Information
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