數位人類學
Digital Anthropology
學期
113-1
學分
3
學分
當期課號
534501
永久課號
HSSC30050
開課單位
社會與文化研究所
授課教師
李梅君
校區
陽明
類別
選修
上課時間表
| 節 | 週四 |
|---|---|
5 13:20–14:10 | 數位人類學 YX202 3 節連堂 |
6 14:20–15:10 | |
7 15:30–16:20 |
* 根據陽明交大上課時間表所列
概述
1971 年,第一台個人電腦問世;1989 年,網際網絡誕生。在短短不到半個世紀的時間裡,數位科技已經對人們如何行動與互動產生了巨大的改變。通訊軟體與電子郵件取代了電話與信件,數位影音平台改變了傳統電視生態,社群媒體、電子遊戲、行動支付、智能家電、共享經濟,數位科技深植在日常的每一個角落,以華麗包裝的未來想像讓人成癮。本課程分為三大單元:數位基調、政治經濟、資料與後人類。我們將以人類學的視角來探索在網路如何重新定義時間/空間、真實/虛擬、與社會性;數位科技如何打造當代的政治經濟地景;資料與演算法又如何重構人與機器、身體與情動。每一堂課都將透過重要文本關注一個相關議題。學生將透過閱讀、課堂討論、與寫作進行思辨,以期能夠批判性地思考數位科技對人類社會的影響。
先修科目
非本所學生修課須經授課教師同意,不開放旁聽。
教學方式
本課程為社文所與科社所合開之seminar,為求兩個校區的學生都能平等的參與,本課程將以線上為主,每個月一次輪流在陽明校區與光復校區實體上課,詳細時間規畫請見每週進度。
評分方式
1.學期作業、考試、評量 - 課堂報告 presentation (20%) - 課堂討論 discussion (20%) - 文章摘要及評論 precis (20%):針對指定閱讀,撰寫800~1500字摘要及短評(或提問);除了報告週次的2篇hangout之外,另外再選不同週次的4篇文章,一共6篇文章,於當週四中午12:00於E3繳交。 - 期末報告 term paper (40%):與本學期課程主題相關之期末報告,文章編排與格式需符合學術規範,不得抄襲,使用生成式AI需註明使用處及下的prompt。文長八千到一萬字。於W12上課前線上繳交題目名與500字以內摘要。期末報告 12/27 5pm於E3繳交。遲交為0分。 2.教學方法及教學相關配合事項(如助教、網站或圖書及資料庫等) 本課程以課堂討論為主。
週次計畫
| 週次 | 主題 |
|---|---|
| 第 1 週 | 課程介紹 Introduction (全實體-陽明/知行樓YX202) |
| 第 2 週 | I. 數位基調 網絡與平台 Network and Platform (線上) - Castells, Manuel. “Informationalism, networks, and the network society: a theoretical blueprint.” The network society: A cross-cultural perspective (2004): 3-45. - Van Dijck, José, Thomas Poell, and Martijn De Waal. 2018. The Platform Society: Public Values in a Connective World. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Read Chapter 1 & 2 |
| 第 3 週 | 真實與虛擬 Real and Virtual (線上) - Boellstorff, Tom. 2008. Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Read p1-31, 54-86 (從Techne一節開始) 建議快速掃過其它章節 |
| 第 4 週 | Prof. Thomas Eriksen 演講 2-4PM (全實體-光復校區人社三館HC101) 講題:What can AI teach us about humanity? |
| 第 5 週 | 網路與數位民族誌 Online and Digital Ethnography (線上) - Escobar, Arturo, et al. 1994. “Welcome to Cyberia: Notes on the Anthropology of Cyberculture [and comments and reply].” Current Anthropology 35(3): 211-231. - Burrell, Jenna. 2009. "The Field Site as a Network: A strategy for locating ethnographic research." Field Methods 21(2): 181-199. - Madianou, Mirca, and Daniel Miller. "Polymedia: Towards a new theory of digital media in interpersonal communication." International journal of cultural studies 16.2 (2013): 169-187. - Hine, Christine. 2017. "From Virtual Ethnography to the Embedded, Embodied, Everyday Internet." In The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography, edited by Larissa Hjorth, Heather Horst, Anne Galloway, and Genevieve Bell, 47-54. Routledge. |
| 第 6 週 | 雙十節放假 |
| 第 7 週 | 連結與參與 Connection and participation (線上) - Beer, David. 2009. "Power through the Algorithm? Participatory Web Cultures and the Technological Unconscious." New Media & Society 11(6): 985-1002. - Kelty, Christopher. 2005. "Geeks, social imaginaries, and recursive publics." Cultural Anthropology 20(2): 185-214. - Köhn, Steffen, and Nestor Siré. 2022. "Fragile connections: Community computer networks, human infrastructures, and the consequences of their breakdown in Havana." American Anthropologist 124(2): 383-398. |
| 第 8 週 | II. 政治經濟 創新與創業 Innovation (線上) - Lindtner, Silvia M. 2020. Prototype nation: China and the contested promise of innovation. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Read Chapter 1~3. |
| 第 9 週 | 勞動 Labor (線上) - Delfanti, Alessandro. 2021. The Warehouse: Workers and Robots at Amazon. London: Pluto Books. Read Chapter 1~3 |
| 第 10 週 | 性別 Gender (全實體-陽明/知行樓YX202) - Lukács, Gabriella. 2020. Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan's Digital Economy. Duke University Press. Read Chapter Introduction, 1, 2 |
| 第 11 週 | 黑客與行動主義 Hackers and Activism (線上) - Juris, J. S. 2012. “Reflections on #Occupy Everywhere: Social media, public space, and emerging logics of aggregation.” American Ethnologist 39(2), 259-279. - Bennett, W. Lance, and Alexandra Segerberg. 2013. “The logic of connective action: Digital media and the personalization of contentious politics.” Information, Communication & Society, 15(5): 739-768. - Coleman, E. Gabriella. 2023. "From busting cults to breeding cults: Anonymous h/acktivism vs. the (a) nonymous far right and QAnon." HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 13(2): 248-263. |
| 第 12 週 | III. 資料與後人類 資料與演算法 Data and algorithm (線上) - Cheney-Lippold, John. 2011. “A New Algorithmic Identity: Soft Biopolitics and the Modulation of Control.” Theory, Culture & Society 28(6): 164-181. - Deleuze, Gilles. 1992. “Postscript on the Societies of Control.” October 59: 3-7. - Nair, Vijayanka. 2021. "Becoming data: biometric IDs and the individual in ‘Digital India’." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 27(S1): 26-42. |
| 第 13 週 | 基礎建設 Infrastructure (線上) - De Seta, Gabriele. 2021. “Gateways, sieves and domes: On the infrastructural topology of the Chinese stack.” - Johnson, Alix. 2019. “Data centers as infrastructural in‐betweens: Expanding connections and enduring marginalities in Iceland.” American Ethnologist 46(1): 75-88. - Smith, James H. 2011. “Tantalus in the Digital Age: Coltan ore, temporal dispossession, and “movement” in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.” American Ethnologist 38(1): 17-35. |
| 第 14 週 | 人機重構 Human-Machine Reconfigurations (線上) - Haraway, Donna. 2013. "A cyborg manifesto: Science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century." In The Transgender Studies Reader, edited by Susan Stryker and Aren Aizura, 103-118. London: Routledge. - White, Daniel, and Hirofumi Katsuno. 2021. “Toward an affective sense of life: artificial intelligence, animacy, and amusement at a robot pet memorial service in Japan.” Cultural Anthropology 36(2): 222-251. |
| 第 15 週 | 校外教學 C-Lab:奇異點 (2-4pm) https://clab.org.tw/events/2024fmf/ |
| 第 16 週 | 戰爭與監控國家 War and Surveillance State (線上) - Darren Byler,2023,《黑甲山的微光》。台北,臉譜。讀引言、第一章、第三章 |
教科書
無教科書。每週指定閱讀詳見進度表。
Office Hours
- 時間
- by appointment
- 聯絡方式
- mclee@gate.sinica.edu.tw