MDIA 590

Spring 2013

Part of Term 1
Jan 14-May 1
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Credit: 2 TO 8 hours.

May be repeated in the same or in multiple semesters if topics vary.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
51949
Independent Study
ARRANGED
n.a.
Location Pending
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/14/13-05/01/13
Special Approval:
Instructor Approval Required
58609
Lecture-Discussion
D
3:00PM -5:50PM
M
1026 Lincoln Hall
Chan, A
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/14/13-05/01/13
Credit:
4 hours
Section Title:
Techno-Scientific Networks
Section Info:
From Bittorrent to Wikipedia, and from transnational fast food franchises to free software producers, global networks have emerged as the defining organizational structure of the contemporary information age. Capable, allegedly, of channeling the productive and creative potential of diverse participants, and organizing complex knowledge- and information-based exchanges, they have at once become the circuits through which new forms of political contest and challenges to logics of social inclusion/exclusion manifest. This course examines the network as a social formation that responds to the current conditions of digitaliz-able capital, labor, and governance. Drawing from science and technology studies, communications and media studies, political anthropology, globalization studies, and social theory, this seminar will investigate networks as discursive technologies that manifest the political tension between free markets and free individuals, and between the competing aspirations of participatory democracy and late capitalism. *NOTE: first class is on Monday, Jan. 28 (space TBA).
59201
Lecture-Discussion
N
6:00PM -8:50PM
R
336 Gregory Hall
Treichler, P
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/14/13-05/01/13
Credit:
4 hours
Section Title:
Cultural Studies in Science
Section Info:
Cultural Studies in Science and Medicine. In this seminar we will examine selected culturally-oriented studies of science and medicine that are of theoretical, social, historical, and methodological interest. These studies address such topics as the U.S. health care system, its history, and structural contradictions; scientific and medical professionalization, practice, and ethical conduct; epidemic disease including HIV/AIDS; different cultural paradigms of the body, health, and disease; conflicts over medical advertising; practices and performances; sex, sexuality, and reproductive technologies (in the ?post-reproductive era?); gender, race, and disease; illness narratives; genes and genomics; disabilities in war and peace; media representations from early 20c movies to new media and imaging technologies; occupational and environmental illness; the production of scientific and medical knowledge; and social and cultural construction in science and medicine. Readings and videos are selected to represent a range of approaches, theoretical perspectives, and social and cultural interventions. There will also be a modest course packet of readings (hard copy and online).
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