Answer the following questions. In your response, you should demonstrate your awareness of relevant literature, offer a critical assessment of its strengths and weaknesses, and explore how your thinking has evolved over the course of semester.

Answer the following questions. In your response, you should demonstrate your awareness of relevant literature, offer a critical assessment of its strengths and weaknesses, and explore how your thinking has evolved over the course of semester. Where appropriate, you should use case study examples to advance your argument.

Q: How is the rise of digitally networked communications reformulating experiences of belonging for people on the move in the twenty-first century?

To put it simple: how digital media technologies or social media platforms contribute to the belongingness of the users? What’s your experience? Who, where, what, how and why.

reading list may help:

Appiah, K. A. (2006) Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a world of strangers

Deleuze, G. & Guattari, F. (1988) A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (London: Athlone Press).

Deleuze, G. (2002), ‘Postscript on Control Societies’, in T. Levin, U. Frohne and P. Weibel (eds.) Ctrl Space: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother, Karlsruhe and London, ZKM and MIT Press: 316–21.

Derrida, J., & Dufourmantelle, A. (2000). Of hospitality. Stanford University Press.

Derrida, J. (2005). The principle of hospitality. Parallax, 11(1), 6-9.

Derrida, J. (2005). Politics of friendship (Vol. 5). Verso.

Derrida, J. (2001) Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness, London, Routledge

Foucault, M. (1972). The archaeology of knowledge. London: Tavistock Publications.

Hardt, M. and Negri, A. (2004) Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire, New York, Penguin Press

Latour, B. (2014), ‘Anthropology at the Time of the Anthropocene -a personal view of what is to be studied’, Distinguished lecture: American Association of Anthropologists, Washington, December 2014.

Lefebvre H (1991 [1974]) The Production of Space [Le Production de l’espace]. Oxford: Blackwell.

Massumi, B. (1995). The autonomy of affect. Cultural critique, (31), 83-109.

Massumi, B. (2015) Politics of Affect Polity Press.

Nancy, J-L. (1990) The Inoperative Community Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

Spivak, G. C. (2012) An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization. Harvard University Press.