Annotation
The Internet, the network of networks, started to become publicly accessible from late 1980s onwards. In only few decades, digital infrastructures, computers and information technologies have interfused with everyday life of almost half of human inhabitants of the Earth in such a way and with such power, that the new epoch buzzwords emerge – be it the Information Age, the Computer Age, or the Digital Era. Unprecedentedly accelerated coming of the Internet Age is sought to be reflected by means of social and cultural anthropology from the millennial turn as new sub-discipline is established and stabilized gaining more and more importance as well as more and more labels – cyberanthropology, techno-anthropology, anthropology of information, virtual anthropology or digital anthropology. The aim of the course is to guide students through this new world of anthropological interest and introduce the key concepts, genealogy, examples, research tools, schools and themes of digital anthropology.
It is obligatory to assigned the DA course together with the DA seminar. The course is designed for students enrolled in a master degree program. Undergraduate students are obliged to ask for an exception by BK.