{"id":1589,"date":"2021-03-12T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2024-10-08T13:36:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T11:36:44","slug":"seminar-the-materiality-and-visuality-of-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/seminar-the-materiality-and-visuality-of-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar: The Materiality and Visuality of Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ufind.univie.ac.at\/en\/course.html?lv=240525&amp;semester=2021S\" target=\"_blank\">This online course<\/a> for the summer semester 2021 at the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ksa.univie.ac.at\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Vienna<\/a> gives a <strong>critical overview about the material and visual dimension of social media<\/strong> and their interconnection. Social media platforms and services, such as Facebook or Instagram, have become important (visual) communication and (re)presentation tools. For social and cultural anthropology it is of particular interest how these platforms are integrated and embedded into everyday life, by considering changing sociocultural, political and economic contexts. Students therefore explore and discuss <strong>the relevance of a material culture approach<\/strong> for (the understanding of) technology appropriation as well as <strong>(culturally) different digital-visual practices<\/strong>. By <strong>working on case studies in small empirical projects and by sharing and comparing their findings<\/strong>, students gain insights into material and visual culture in a digital context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Selected Literature <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Dourish, P. (2016). Rematerializing the platform: Emulation and the digital\u2013material. In S. Pink, E. Ardevol, &amp; D. Lanzeni (Eds.), Digital materialities: Design and anthropology (pp. 29\u201344). Oxford: Bloomsbury.<\/li><li>Favero, P. (2018). The present image: Visible stories in a digital habitat. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. <\/li><li>G\u00f3ralska, M. (2020). Anthropology from home: Advice on digital ethnography for the pandemic times. Anthropology in Action, 27(1), 46\u201352. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3167\/aia.2020.270105\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3167\/aia.2020.270105<\/a><\/li><li>Horst, H., &amp; Miller, D. (2012). Normativity and materiality: A view from digital anthropology. Media International Australia, 145(1), 103\u2013111. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/1329878X1214500112\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/1329878X1214500112<\/a><\/li><li>Miller, D., &amp; Sinanan, J. (2017). Visualising Facebook: A comparative perspective. London: UCL Press. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uclpress.co.uk\/collections\/series-why-we-post\/products\/83994\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.uclpress.co.uk\/collections\/series-why-we-post\/products\/83994<\/a><\/li><li>Miller, D., et al. (2016). How the world changed social media. London: UCL Press. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uclpress.co.uk\/collections\/series-why-we-post\/products\/83040\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.uclpress.co.uk\/collections\/series-why-we-post\/products\/83040<\/a><\/li><li>Pink, S. (2017). Technologies, possibilities, emergence and an ethics of responsibility: Refiguring techniques. In E. G\u00f3mez Cruz, S. Sumartojo &amp; S. Pink (Eds.), Refiguring techniques in digital visual research (pp. 1\u201312). London: Palgrave Macmillan.<\/li><li>Sumiala, J, et al. (2020). Just a \u2018stupid reflex\u2019? Digital witnessing of the Charlie Hebdo attacks and the mediation of conflict. In P. Budka &amp; B. Br\u00e4uchler (Eds.), Theorising Media and Conflict. Anthropology of Media Vol. 10 (pp. 57\u201375). New York &amp; Oxford: Berghahn Books.<\/li><li>Walton, S. (2018). Remote ethnography, virtual presence: Exploring digital-visual methods for anthropological research on the web. In. C. Costa &amp; J. Condie (Eds.), Doing research in and on the digital: Research methods across fields of enquiry (pp. 116\u201333). New York: Routledge.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This online course for the summer semester 2021 at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Vienna gives a critical overview about the material and visual dimension of social media and their interconnection. Social media platforms and services, such as Facebook or Instagram, have become important (visual) communication and (re)presentation tools.&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/seminar-the-materiality-and-visuality-of-social-media\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Seminar: The Materiality and Visuality of Social Media<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,213,230,134,129,265,273],"tags":[186,212,231,194,276],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-anthropology","category-digital-ethnography","category-digital-visuality","category-material-culture","category-seminar","category-teaching","category-visual-culture","tag-digital-anthropology","tag-digital-ethnography","tag-digital-visuality","tag-material-culture","tag-visual-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1591,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions\/1591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}