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Assignments

This course has weekly homework assignments. This section contains the list of assignments and required readings as they pertain to each lecture topic.





LEC #TOPICSASSIGNMENTSREADINGS
1Introduction
2Thinking about Identity: Categorization, Prototypes, Stereotypes(PDF)

Simmel, George. “How is society possible?” In On Individuality and Social Forms.

Holland and Skinner. “Prestige and intimacy.” In Cultural models of language and thought. Edited by Holland and Quinn.

Hirschfeld, Lawrence. Race in the Making. Chap. 0 and 1.

3Cultural Identity Part 1: Language, Dialects and Email(PDF)

Saville-Troike, Muriel. The Ethnography of Communication. Chap. 2 and 3.

Donath, Judith. Identity and deception in the virtual community.(http://smg.media.mit.edu/people/judith/Identity/IdentityDeception.html)

Cherny, Lynn. Conversation and Community. Skim Chap. 4.

4Cultural Identity Part 2: Fashions in Clothing, Music and Links(PDF)

Thornton, Sarah. Club Cultures. Chap. 4.

McCracken, Grant. Culture and Consumption. Chap. 5.

Davis, Fred. Fashion. Culture and Identity. Chap. 1.

5The Face(PDF)

Zebrowitz. Reading Faces. Chap. 2 and 3.

Bruce and Young. In the Eye of the Beholder. Chap. 5.

Donath. Mediated Faces.

6Final Project Proposals
7The not quite Human Other: Robots, Agents and Augmented Humans
8Databanks and Privacy(PDF)

Jeffrey Rosen. The Unwanted Gaze. Prologue and Chap. 2.

Clarke, Roger. “Introduction to Dataveillance and Information Privacy.”

9Visualizations: Depicting the Abstract and Mediated Self(PDF)

LifeLines: Visualizing Personal Histories.

Developing Legible Visualizations for Online Social Spaces (HICSS2002.pdf)

Review exhibits shown for Id/entity.

10Measuring Identity:Tests and Sensors
11Portraying Identity: Portraiture in the 21st Century(PDF)
12Final Presentations
 


 



 








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