ANTH 3040 6.0: The Anthropology of Digital Media and Visual Representation

AP/ANTH 3040 6.00 The Anthropology of Digital Media and Visual Representation

This course is about anthropology and visual representations of culture, and cultural difference. It looks at a wide variety of visual media online, including art, photography, film, and digital technologies to explore the ways in which they shape both the perception and experience of cultural difference and identity. This course examines a wide range of readings, films, and online videos in an effort to move toward developing a theoretical framework for analyzing and reading visual images. It draws on sources from a variety of media formats that are available online. Of central concern are representations of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and Otherness.

Course Director (Fall/Winter 24-25): J. Fulton-Melanson – fultonjs@yorku.ca