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WN 2011 Anthropology, Cultural ANTHRCUL 158 - First Year Seminar in Anthropology Section 001 The Anthropology of Media
Credits:	3
Requirements & Distribution:	SS
Other:	FYSem
Waitlist Capacity:	10
Consent:	With permission of instructor.
Advisory Prerequisites:	Enrollment restricted to first-year students, including those with sophomore standing.
Other Course Info:	May not be included in an Anthropology concentration.
Repeatability:	May not be repeated for credit.
Primary Instructor:	Askew,Kelly M
	(real time availability for all sections)

People across the globe catch their first glimpses of distant lifestyles through images in film, newspaper, and television, hear unfamiliar musical genres and languages through radio broadcasts and music videos, and interact with people continents away by logging on the Internet. It is no longer news to anyone that mass media pervade our world. Yet this pervasiveness lulls people into accepting without thought the roles media technologies (photography, radio, television, film, audiocassettes, newspapers, the Internet, etc.) serve in our society and extending those to other societies. In this seminar, we will question common assumptions about media by considering and analyzing the ways in which media technologies and cultural processes are interlinked.

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Textbooks/Other Materials (data maintained by department in Wolverine Access)



ISBN: 080144859X	The breakup 2.0 : disconnecting over new media, Author: Gershon, Ilana., Publisher: Cornell University Press 2010
Required

ISBN: 9780631220947	The anthropology of media : a reader, Author: edited by Kelly Askew and Richard R. Wilk., Publisher: Blackwell [Nachdr.] 2002
Required	Other Textbook Editions OK.