Discussion Leader List – Anth 397 Media, Persons, and Publics

Part I: Dilemmas of Mediate/Immediate Experience

Week Two: Mediated lives: Things and Cyborgs, Humans and Nonhumans

Maya

Week Three: Histories of Communication: New Media (only one day, sign up for either week 10 or Week 7 as well)

Week Four: States, Mediation and Constituting Publics

Sarah and Reese

Week Five: Semiotic Mediation: the Emergence of Persons and Things

James and Beq

Week Six: Dilemmas of Digital Methods: Media Ideologies and Multimodality

Harry and Emilie

Week Seven: Multimodal ethnography: Religion, Mediation and Immediacy (only one day, sign up for either week 10 or Week 3 as well)

Thor

Spring Break Mar 21-27

Part II: Mediated Engagements: Making (Counter)publics

Week Eight: Media Infrastructure, Materiality and Governance

Parker and Anna

Week Nine: Algorithmic Sociality I: Creating and Surveilling Persons and Publics

Oscar and Jozie

Week Ten: Algorithmic Sociality II: Platform Capitalism

Thor

Week Eleven: Digital Divides? Racializing (Counter)publics

Arianna and Sienna

Week Twelve: Digital Divides? Indigenizing (Counter)publics

Michelle and Parker

Week Thirteen: Mediation and Activisms

Zoe and Joshua

Anth 397 Media, Persons, and Publics