ANTH 115 - Anthropology of Digital Cultures

Upper Division

Facebook. Instagram. World of Warcraft. This course focuses on understanding digital cultures through the lens of contemporary anthropology. Students will become proficient with digital cultures and environments through both theoretical investigation and ethnographic immersion into virtual worlds, cyber-culture, online gaming, and other forms of digitally mediated social networks. Students will engage in fieldwork that examines emerging virtual worlds, migratory practices, and developing markets. The purpose of this course is to provide students with the necessary analytical tools, based on anthropological theory and methodology, to explore, describe, and define digital cultures and virtual communities.

Course credits: 1