Anthropology of Media: Digital Culture, Representation and Identity

Name: Anthropology of Media: Digital Culture, Representation and Identity
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This free online course will explore how media worldwide connect people and shape culture, identity, and societies.

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In this free course, you will learn how to:

Define the basic function of media
Distinguish basic media from mass media
Describe an anthropologist’s use of participant observation to study media
Outline the concepts of cosmopolitanism, visual anthropology, and ethnographic film
List the important features of the gaze
Discuss the role of the public sphere in the study of news media
Explain the community radio’s role in expressing local identity and social action
Recognize state, independent, and Indigenous media
Identify the ways governments and development organizations use broadcast media
Summarize the role of digital media in enabling new forms of sociality

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