This course approached media and what role they play in context of public discourses. With the question ‘How do we want to see the world’ the class payed critical attention to various media forms and how they produce different kinds of transcultural entanglements of representation (including conflict, crises, protest and resistance), discrimination (such as racism, oppression, or exclusion), and identification (for example digital community building, citizenship or other forms of belonging). Along theories and methods from Social and Cultural Anthropology, (Digital) Media studies, Migration and Memory Studies, the multimodality of how we construct the world became an exciting entry point for discussion. Along case studies from the everyday, the students learned about different regional settings and existing challenges to conduct ethnographic research.
Cathrine Bublatzky 