Analysis of the concepts of “network” and “intercultural communication”, analysis of the city as network of cultural meanings.
The aim of the course is providing students with the basic notions of Anthropology, in particular of Urban Anthropology, in order to analyse the concepts of “network”, “intercultural communication” and “city as network of cultural meanings”. A special attention will be paid to the ways the new digital technologies are acquired and used.
First of all, the main currents of Cultural Anthropology – from Evolutionism to Funcionalism, from Structuralism to Post – Modernism, will be presented, toghether with the most common intellectual “positions” taken by anthropologists, from Universalism to Relativism. All this, will be followed by the analysis of the concept od Digital Anthropology, highlighting how to use the previously illustrated theories and metodologies. In the end, the course will focus on how Anthropology can provide intepretative tools to approach the observation of the city, the concept of “network” and a complete analysis of globalisation and post-modernism.
Frontal lessons
- The concept of Digital Anthropology,
- Theories and metodologies.
-How Anthropology can provide intepretative tools to approach the observation of the city
- The concept of “network” and a complete analysis of globalisation and post-modernism.
BIBLIOGRAFIA
Testo obbligatorio: - A. Biscaldi, V. Matera, Antropologia dei social media, Carocci, Roma, 2019
Un testo a scelta tra:
- S. Turkle, La conversazione necessaria, Einaudi, Torino, 2016;
- 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: Thuesday 9-12 Wednesday 9-12
SALVATORE BRUNO BARBA (President)
MARCO AIME
First semester
Oral exam
At the end of the course, students will be able to describe the main currents of anthropological taught; to analyse the functioning of dinamycs of cultural transmission and changement; to make original hypothesis about the future of digital thinking
