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Here is an announcement about a new course just added to the Spring roster. Anth 309/AMST 311, The Anthropology of Digital Media, taught by Jordan Kraemer, will meet on Tuesdays from 1:10-4 pm in Anthropology, Room 6.

Anthropology of Digital Media

Networked media technologies, from the Internet to mobile phones, are reshaping many aspects of daily life, selfhood, and society. While digital and electronic media seem to make the world smaller, ostensibly facilitating global flows of capital, people, goods, and ideas, this course examines how these technologies co-constitute particular kinds of subjects, accommodating some uses and modes of living more than others. Digital platforms and services, for example, are often designed with elite, technically savvy users in mind, yet are taken up transnationally in diverse and unexpected ways. Media, like other technologies, never exist separately from social life as independent agents of change, but instead emerge through contingent histories, material realities, constellations of discourse, and unequal distributions of power. This course introduces students to the anthropology of digital media and culture, drawing on empirical, ethnographic accounts from a variety of theoretical perspectives, including feminist technology studies, actor-network theory, queer theory critiques, new materialisms, postcolonial studies, and social informatics. Topics include space and place online, media publics, new transnationalisms, design anthropology, big data, social networks, virtuality and embodiment, the social construction of users, mobility and disability, and telecommunication infrastructures.

We will consider emerging media practices in cross-cultural and transnational settings, to examine the situated contexts of design and use, while asking broadly what consequences these technologies have for our social worlds. This course requires intensive reading and writing, including a final project that can be undertaken in a variety of ways, such as an original ethnographic or creative project exploring an emerging media practice.

Need help with your writing this semester?

Apply for a Writing Mentor!

Writing Mentors work with students one-on-one on all aspects of writing, from structure to grammar to time management.

Find the application at

www.wesleyan.edu/writing/workshop/applymentor.html

And fill it out by Friday, February 5

If you have any questions, contact

Ford Fellow Elana Rosenthal at writingworks@wesleyan.edu

Anthropology of Digital Media

Networked media technologies, from the Internet to mobile phones, are reshaping many aspects of daily life, selfhood, and society. While digital and electronic media seem to make the world smaller, ostensibly facilitating global flows of capital, people, goods, and ideas, this course examines how these technologies co-constitute particular kinds of subjects, accommodating some uses and modes of living more than others. Digital platforms and services, for example, are often designed with elite, technically savvy users in mind, yet are taken up transnationally in diverse and unexpected ways. Media, like other technologies, never exist separately from social life as independent agents of change, but instead emerge through contingent histories, material realities, constellations of discourse, and unequal distributions of power. This course introduces students to the anthropology of digital media and culture, drawing on empirical, ethnographic accounts from a variety of theoretical perspectives, including feminist technology studies, actor-network theory, queer theory critiques, new materialisms, postcolonial studies, and social informatics. Topics include space and place online, media publics, new transnationalisms, design anthropology, big data, social networks, virtuality and embodiment, the social construction of users, mobility and disability, and telecommunication infrastructures.

We will consider emerging media practices in cross-cultural and transnational settings, to examine the situated contexts of design and use, while asking broadly what consequences these technologies have for our social worlds. This course requires intensive reading and writing, including a final project that can be undertaken in a variety of ways, such as an original ethnographic or creative project exploring an emerging media practice.

Spring 2016 COL264: Schwanze-Beast Performance Composition-Animals and the Future

This interdisciplinary course led by writer and performance artist Carmelita Tropicana explores the meaning and role of animals in our lives and problematizes neat categories and distinctions between humans and other animals. The course also examines the use of sci-fi as a genre for social and political critique. The studio course will provide students the opportunity to share in the collaborative process and create content based on Schwanze-Beast, a sci-fi project in development by Tropicana. This hands on practical course aims to strengthen creative writing for interdisciplinary work. Students will also work as research assistants for Tropicana.
https://iasext.wesleyan.edu/regprod/!wesmaps_page.html?crse=014389&term=1161

The Wellness Experience

Are you seeking self-care strategies for health and well-being?
Do you want to learn new skills and gain tools to manage stress?
Join the Wellness Experience for the month of February
to increase resiliency and gratitude, and flourish.

· Select a wellness activity to practice each week.

· Choose from a broad range of activities to fit into your schedule.

· Each week addresses a different wellness theme: emotional, physical, spiritual, and social.

For more info and to sign up, CLICK HERE.
Sign up by 12:00 pm on Friday, January 29th.

If you have any questions please email
Tanya Purdy, MPH MCHES Director of WesWell, Office of Health Education
tpurdy@wesleyan.edu

The Wellness Experience is coordinated by: ASHA, CAPS, Health Services, Office of Religious & Spiritual Life, Residence Life, SALD, WesBAM!, WesHEAL, and WesWell.

Want to help local, underserved high school students prepare for the SAT and the college application process in general? Apply to be a coach—a tutor, mentor, role-model—with Let’s Get Ready, a non-profit organization that provides free SAT preparation and college admissions counseling to socioeconomically disadvantaged high school students. See below for more info and the application link–app is due January 29th. Email wesleyanlgr@gmail.com with any questions/concerns!

Interested in a scientific research project?
Looking for summer fellowship opportunities?
Not sure how to get there?

Attend the Science Research Opportunities Extravaganza!

Saturday, January 23, 2016
1:30-2:00 pm, Student Panel, Exley 150: How do I get into a research lab?
Current research students will give advice on finding a lab.

2:00-4:00 pm, Poster Session, Exley Lobby: Research opportunities in Science Labs
Current research students will show you what you could be doing.

Light refreshments provided.
Sponsored by: College of Integrative Sciences, College of the Environment,
Wesleyan Mathematics and Science Scholars, & the McNair Program

Study Abroad Information Sessions
A representative from each program will be on hand to discuss the program and answer any questions. Students can drop in for the session, no appointment is required.

Tuesday, February 2 – 12:00-1:00–ISA Euroscholars Program—Fisk 302
EuroScholars offers research opportunities in all fields of study. Additional areas of interest are honors programs and undergraduate research offices. Please see list of pre approved programs on the Study Abroad website.

Tuesday, February 9 – 12:00-1:00–The Swedish Program—Fisk 302
The Swedish Program is sponsored by a consortium of American colleges and universities and is affiliated with the Stockholm School of Economics, one of the most prestigious universities in Europe for the study of economics, finance, and business. The Swedish Program offers a full range of liberal arts courses each semester.
Fall, spring or full year. Range of courses taught in English; especially strong in public policy, PSYC, ENGL, FGSS, GOVT/IR, SOC, Swedish language.

Wednesday, February 10 –12:00-1:00– IFSA-Butler—Fisk 210
IFSA-Butler provides quality study abroad opportunities, plus academic and personal support services, for qualified North American undergraduates seeking to earn academic credit through study abroad. IFSA-Butler currently operates programs in Argentina, Australia, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Egypt, England, India, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Peru, the Republic of Ireland, Scotland, Spain and Wales. Please see list of pre approved programs on the Study Abroad website

Thursday, February 11 – 12:00-1:00–IES—Fisk 302
More than 130 academic programs Programs in 35+ cities and 21 countries. Please see list of pre approved programs on the Study Abroad website

Thursday, February 18 – 12:00-1:00–CERGE-EI UPCES in Prague—Fisk 302
UPCES is the undergraduate study abroad program of Charles University and CERGE-EIin Prague, Czech Republic. Classes meet in the Schebek Palace, a historic building in the center of Prague. Courses bring together European and American students in a small and interactive classroom setting. Outside the classroom, UPCES students explore the cultures of Central Europe firsthand. Program trips, excursions, internships, and immersion activities offer opportunities to discover new places, people, and perspectives.
Fall, spring, or full year. Czech language course plus four courses in social sciences and humanities, primarily related to area studies

Wednesday, February 24 – 12:00-1:00–SIT—Fisk 210
SIT offers more than 70 programs in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East, as well as comparative programs in multiple locations. Please see list of pre approved programs on the Study Abroad website. All SIT Study Abroad programs, regardless of type, grapple with the complexities of critical issues and offer students a high level of access to experts and stakeholders relevant to the issues being examined. Learning on SIT programs extends beyond the program center to provide students with holistic, multifaceted, field-based experiences.

Over the past two summers, Joseph Eusebio ’17 and I have been part of the Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program at the University of Washington. We’ve both had incredible experiences, and we’d like to make sure that others are aware of this opportunity.

The eight-week, all-expenses-paid (+ stipend) program allows a select group of college students to travel throughout Washington State, engaging in field-based learning experiences and connecting with a variety of professionals involved in environmental conservation. The career-oriented program is focused on diversifying the field of conservation, asking important questions about who engages these issues and how accessibility affects our ability to solve them.

More about the program can be found here: http://uwconservationscholars.org/

The program is open to current freshmen and sophomores, regardless of area of study. The application period closes on January 29th.

These are two Wesleyan newsletters that have featured Joseph and me:
http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2015/03/24/kaiblatt17/
http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2014/05/19/eusebioconservation/