Wednesday, February 24, 2010

PCA 111 Class 8: Community or/and Individualism?

Today we will have a presentation from Hana Lahr on APA Formatting. Time permitting, we will have a session on searching Databases.

We will also discuss Tocqueville's definition of individualism and its relationship to user-generated media such as YouTube to further expand our definition(s) of community.

TAKE NOTES as you watch the following presentation, "The Anthropological Introduction to YouTube": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU&NR=1.

After watching the presentation, write a response to the video on your blog. What are some of the main points of that presentation? How is Welsch's definition of "individualism" similar to or different from Tocqueville's definition of individualism? What do you think of his concept of "cultural inversion," that the more individual we become (via YouTube, etc.) the more connected we become to a community?

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