UCL University - Why We Post: the Anthropology of Social Media
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Why We Post: the Anthropology of Social Media at FutureLearn Overview
Duration | 5 weeks |
Total fee | ₹2,763 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Official Website | Go to Website  |
Credential | Certificate |
Why We Post: the Anthropology of Social Media at FutureLearn Highlights
- Duration 5 weeks
- Weekly study 3 hours
- 100% online Learn at your own pace
Why We Post: the Anthropology of Social Media at FutureLearn Course details
- This free online course is based on the work of nine anthropologists who each spent 15 months in fieldsites in Brazil, Chile, industrial and rural China, England, India, Italy, Trinidad and Turkey.
- The course offers a new definition of social media which concentrates on the content posted, not just the capabilities of platforms. It examines the increasing importance of images in communication and the reasons why people post memes, selfies and photographs.
- Over five weeks you will explore the impact of social media on a wide range of topics including politics, education, gender, commerce, privacy and equality. You will come to understand how the consequences of social media vary from region to region.
- The course will be taught by the same nine anthropologists who carried out the original fieldwork and who are publishing
- based on this research.
- You will meet many of our informants through our films, engage with our team through video discussions and lectures, and encounter our ideas through animations, infographics and text.
- Adopting an anthropological and comparative approach, we strive to understand not only how social media has changed the world, but how the world has changed social media.
- To learn more about our research, see the
- website or read our
- . If you have a question about the project, email
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- Translations of this course can be found on
- in the following languages: Chinese, Italian, Hindi, Portuguese, Spanish, Tamil and Turkish.
Why We Post: the Anthropology of Social Media at FutureLearn Curriculum
What is the anthropology of social media?
Introduction
Academic approaches to social media
The research project
The English fieldsite
Summary and practical
What does social media look like?
Introducing the fieldsites
Social visibility
Memes and values
Illiteracy, summary and practical
The impact of social media on politics and gender
Introduction to this week's fieldsites
Social media and politics
Social media and gender
Platforms or users?
Conclusions and practical
The Chinese challenge
Introducing this week's fieldsites
Polymedia
Comparing the Chinese fieldsites
Social media and education
Social media and commerce
Social media and privacy
Summary and practical
Social media and social mobility
Introducing this week's fieldsites
Social inequality
Identity and normativity
Summary and practical
Conclusions of course and further activities
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