Week 6: Local fieldwork studying the media infrastructure of University City.
Read before class:
Ingrid Burrington, Networks of New York: An Internet Infrastructure Field Guide (Seeing Networks, 2016).
Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen, Nils Bubandt, and Rachel Cypher, eds., Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene: Doing Fieldwork in Multispecies Worlds (Minneapolis, MN: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2023). Only Read the Introduction.
We will be exploring ways of encountering and engaging with media infrastructures in the immediate environment of the University City/Penn Campus, where you will get the opportunity to produce your own piece of flash media.
This week is a fieldwork week. Meet at Room 225 Annenberg Building as usual but be prepared to be outside for some of this class. Please dress accordingly, ready to be outside and moving.