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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Why We Post: the Anthropology of Social Media
UCL (University College London)
This online course offered a new definition of social media which concentrated on the content posted, not just the capabilities of platforms. It examined the impact of social media for areas of human life including communication, politics, education, gender relations, commerce, and aspirations.
5 weeks, 3 hours per week
Daniel Miller
Professor of Anthropology
UCL (University College London)
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Apply critical thinking to a range of cross-cultural qualitative and quantitative evidence.
- Asses social media from an anthropological perspective and conduct mini research projects.
- Compare one's own perspective on social media to those from other cultural backgrounds.
Syllabus
- What is social media and how should we define it?
- Academic approaches to social media and an introduction to anthropology.
- The rise of images in communication.
- The impact of social media on gender and politics.
- The impact of social media on education, commerce and privacy.
- The impact of social media on inequality.
Issued on 12th February 2017
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