As part of our inquiry into the ways in which technoscience shapes everyday life, each class participant will contribute to the course blog throughout the semester. This blog will serve as a space for our personal reflections on course themes as well as our entry point into a shared intellectual community (both on- and off-line) with each other. This is also an experiment in participant-observation, a key hallmark of anthropological engagement.
Ideas for posting include:
- A weekly reflection on the readings (post by 8 pm on the day before class)
- Questions for class discussion.
- Reflections on and reactions to class discussions and course topics.
- Responses to your classmates' blog entries.
- Excerpts from and links to news stories, scholarly articles, images, videos, and other online material (together with a brief explanation of how these relate to course themes).
- Ideas, field notes, analytical musings, and descriptive materials for your mini-ethnography projects.
- Observations and comments on the blogging process and experiences with other forms of virtual mediation (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, text messaging, etc.)
Other creative uses are welcome! I hope this blog will serve as a lively space for your personal reflections on course themes as well as your entry point into a shared intellectual community with your colleagues.
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