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Technocultures explores how technology and culture are bound together in increasingly complex ways. Information and communication technologies in particular contribute to widespread reconfigurations of writing, sociality, politics, embodiment, aesthetics, perception, memory and thought itself. Drawing on recent critical theory and cultural research, this unit unravels the complex interplay between humans and technologies.
One 1 hour lecture and one 2 hour tutorial per week
Review (1500 words); Presentation & documentation (500 words equiv); Essay (2000 words); Participation.
ARIN2600 Course Reader Recommended reading: Trend, David (2001) Reading digital culture, Malden, Mass. and Oxford: Blackwell. Murphie, Andrew and John Potts (2003) Culture and technology, London: Palgrave MacMillan.
18 junior credit points
ARIN3000
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