What are the details of our daily existence? What systems dominate our lives? What meanings can we make of our situation?

This social studies/humanities course will steal from various disciplines - including anthropology, critical theory, cultural studies, economics, futurology, history, philosophy, political science, psychology, and sociology - to help us make sense of our situation.

A major goal of the course will be to focus your attention on your own life. Together we will investigate major systems that create and rule our lives including capitalism, school, family, popular culture, and the US government. And we will figure out how to interpret our lives, and these systems, and the collision of our lives and these systems.

We will detour into the future and the past but our journey will be primarily contemporary.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

HW 10 - Informal Research Internet

Which aspect of the digital representational phenomena are you most interested in - video games, facebook, TV use, racial differences, cell phone radiation tumors, etc? Google that and websurf a little among newspaper articles, studies, opinion pieces, Wikipedia, etc.

Collect the best of what you find in a list of URLs. Then reread each of the best pieces carefully and, for HW 10, post a list of 3-7 links along with a paragraph or two about each of the items you've linked to.

Your 1-2 paragraph commentary about each piece should include:
1. The most interesting part of the text.
2. The most interesting thoughts you had in response to the piece.

This is due Monday Oct. 5 at 4pm.
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