The course afford form different points of view, the notion of "community". In particular, the differences between the "classical" community of the socio-anthropological tradition and the online communities will be highlighted. The different aspects of the community, from the modalities of aggregation, to the types of bonds and the construction of borders will be examined.
The concepts of network communication and the anthropological change taking place will be analyzed.
The educational objective of the discipline is the acquisition of a theoretical and methodological instrumentation functional to the analysis of the communication rhetoric relative to the construction of the "other" and the consequent identity of the "us".
To provide some anthropological interpretation keys to the complexity that characterizes our era.
The program includes a series of readings useful for building a community reading path.
S. Turkle, La conversazione necessaria, Einaudi, Torino
Z. Bauman, Voglia di comunità, Laterza, Bari
Then one book among the following:
K. Goldsmith, Perdere tempo su Internet, Einaudi, Torino, 2017
D. Miller, Cose che parlano di noi, il Mulino, Bologna, 2014
P. Artuso, M. Codogno, Scimmie digitali. Informazione e conoscenza al tempo di Internet, Armando editore, Roma, 2018
C. Tuniz, P.Tiberi Vipraio, La scimmia vestita. Dalle tribù di primati all’intelligenza artificiale, Carocci, Roma, 2018
T. H. Eriksen, Fuori controllo. Un’antropologia del cambiamento accelerato, Einaudi, Torino, 2017
R. Baronciani, Nella tana del Bianconiglio. Saggio sulla mutazione digitale, effequ, Orbetello, 2014
M. Banti, Wonderland. La cultura di massa da Walt Disney ai Pink Floyd, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2017
D. Mazzucco, Propaganda pop. Il fascino del consenso nell’era digitale, Effequ, Orbetello, 2016
Ricevimento: Tuesday from10 to 12, Albergo dei Poveri
Ricevimento: Thuesday 9-12 Wednesday 9-12
MARCO AIME (President)
SALVATORE BRUNO BARBA
Beginning of second semester
