Anthropology of the Interent

elective courses
general courses

Seminar is devoted to the internet as specific cultural phenomenon.

The course is an attempt to show various cultural practices related to the global digital network and different ways of recognizing and researching the internet as a cultural phenomenon, with particular emphasis on the anthropological approach. One of the assumptions of the seminar is also to discover new cultural practices related to the internet and practical testing of various methodologies and research tools.

Classroom

Seminar is devoted to the internet as specific cultural phenomenon.

The course is an attempt to show various cultural practices related to the global digital network and different ways of recognizing and researching the internet as a cultural phenomenon, with particular emphasis on the anthropological approach. One of the assumptions of the seminar is also to discover new cultural practices related to the internet and practical testing of various methodologies and research tools.

Seminar is devoted to the internet as specific cultural phenomenon.

The course is an attempt to show various cultural practices related to the global digital network and different ways of recognizing and researching the internet as a cultural phenomenon, with particular emphasis on the anthropological approach. One of the assumptions of the seminar is also to discover new cultural practices related to the internet and practical testing of various methodologies and research tools.

Classes are divided into two sections:

Stories:

1.Internet, internets, network, postmedium -

defining what the internet is, how do we perceive it and can it be defined consistently.

2. Before the Internet: concepts, ideologies, technologies, people

Cultural history of the internet, founders and ideologists, first papers

3. Node points: three internet

Always-on, anthropological categories, virtual reality, hybridity, location, California ideology

4. Imagined internet

Digital network as a vision, vision of the networked future in the popular culture: cyberpunk, detective stories, dogital revolution

Research:

5.Genres, practices, internet

Can we talk about specific genres of "online creativity" or internet cultural practices?

6. A great quantification?

Qualitative research and Big Data, Quantified Self

7. Where's the research area?

Where to go and how to explore? Netnography, digital anthropology, hybrid terrain, selfentography, ethics

8. Acting as a research

Game playing, programming, creating

Richard Barbrook, Andy Cameron, The Californian Ideology, “Science as Culture” 01, 1996;

Tom Boellstorff, Dojrzewanie w Second Life: antropologia człowieka wirtualnego, tłum. Agata Sadza, Wyd. UJ, Kraków 2012;

Tom Boellstorff, Bonnie Nardi, Celia Pearce, T.L. Taylor, Ethnography and Virtual Worlds. A Handbook of Method, Princeton, Oxford 2012;

Vannevar Bush, Jak możemy myśleć, w: R. Chymkowski, I. Kurz, [w:] Communicare. Almanach antropologiczny. Temat: Internet, red. A. Mencwel, Warszawa 2004;

Dariusz Jemielniak, Socjologia internetu, Warszawa 2019;

Piotr Marecki, Gatunki cyfrowe. Instrukcja obsługi, Kraków 2018;

Wojciech Orliński, Człowiek, który wynalazł internet, Warszawa 2019;

Corey Pein, Nowy Dziki Zachód, Kraków 2019;

The Social Media Reader, red. Michael Mandiberg, New York 2012;

Sherry Turkle, Recleiming Conversation, New York 2015.