SOCI221 – Sociology of Cyberspace
Meeting 12: December 1, 2014
Posthumanism to Facebook
Posthumanism
Logistics
- Class meeting tomorrow (same time and place)
- Exam in one week: Monday, December 16, 7–10p
- H–1011 AL—HAF
- H–820 HOR—ZAF
- Exam prep together
Last Week
Posthumanism
Is the human condition a problem to be solved?
Activity: Project Plan
- What interests class members? Any pattern?
- What would be outcomes of research on online groups?
Required Texts
Chapters 1–2 in Human No More: Digital Subjectivities, Un-Human Subjects, and the End of Anthropology, edited by Neil L. Whitehead and Michael Wesch. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2012. doi:10.5876/9781607321705
Cool, Jennifer. “The Mutual Co-Construction of Online and Onground in Cyborganic: Making an Ethnography of Networked Social Media Speak to Challenges of the Posthuman.”
Tufekci, Zeynep. “We Were Always Human.”
Cool
Cool, Jennifer. “The Mutual Co-Construction of Online and Onground in Cyborganic: Making an Ethnography of Networked Social Media Speak to Challenges of the Posthuman” in Human No More: Digital Subjectivities, Un-Human Subjects, and the End of Anthropology, edited by Neil L. Whitehead and Michael Wesch, 11–32. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2012. doi:10.5876/9781607321705
- Post-/Transhumanists
- Phatic communion
- Liberal subject
- Embodiment
Tufekci
Tufekci, Zeynep. “We Were Always Human” in Human No More: Digital Subjectivities, Un-Human Subjects, and the End of Anthropology, edited by Neil L. Whitehead and Michael Wesch, 33–47. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2012. doi:10.5876/9781607321705
- Identity formation, online
- Cyberasociality
- Third digital divide
- Digital Natives?
Tomorrow
What can sociology learn from online social networks?
Activity: Themes and Threads
- To help everyone prepare for the final exam, list some themes and threads for the semester as a whole.
Required Texts
Lim, Sun Sun, Shobha Vadrevu, Yoke Hian Chan, and Iccha Basnyat. “Facework on Facebook: The Online Publicness of Juvenile Delinquents and Youths-at-Risk.” Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 56, no. 3 (July 2012): 346–361. doi:10.1080/08838151.2012.705198.
Madge, Clare, Julia Meek, Jane Wellens, and Tristram Hooley. “Facebook , Social Integration and Informal Learning at University: ‘It Is More for Socialising and Talking to Friends About Work Than for Actually Doing Work’.” Learning, Media and Technology 34, no. 2 (June 2009): 141–155. doi:10.1080/17439880902923606.
Lim et al.
Lim, Sun Sun, Shobha Vadrevu, Yoke Hian Chan, and Iccha Basnyat. “Facework on Facebook: The Online Publicness of Juvenile Delinquents and Youths-at-Risk.” Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 56, no. 3 (July 2012): 346–361. doi:10.1080/08838151.2012.705198.
- Singapore at-risk or delinquent youth
- Link to social work, criminology…
- Face work
- Facebook diversity
Madge et al.
Madge, Clare, Julia Meek, Jane Wellens, and Tristram Hooley. “Facebook , Social Integration and Informal Learning at University: ‘It Is More for Socialising and Talking to Friends About Work Than for Actually Doing Work’.” Learning, Media and Technology 34, no. 2 (June 2009): 141–155. doi:10.1080/17439880902923606.
- British (pre-)undergraduates
- Link to education
- Informal learning
- Tracing links
Ethnography
Descriptive approach to cultural diversity. – Alex
- Fieldwork
- Establishing rapport
- Insider and outsider
- Participant-observation
- Cultural translation (making exotic familiar and familiar exotic)
Surveillance Society
- Panopticon
- Surveillance & Society, Foucault Issue http://lar.me/2zj
- Sousveillance
- Surveillance, sousveillance and PRISM – an op-ed for Die Zeit | … My heart’s in Accra http://lar.me/2zk
- Internet Bill of Rights
- Let’s Write a Digital Bill of Rights http://lar.me/2zl
