Assignment Instructions
In a 1-to-3-page reflective essay, consider how anthropologists study modern media, and consider how you, in your nursing career, see yourself using modern media professionally.
Think critically, as anthropologists do.
First, describe in your essay how anthropologists study modern media.
Then, apply those observations regarding ways anthropologists study modern media and describe ways nurses do or could use modern media professionally.
Describe ways you, as a nurse, could use modern media professionally.
What would be some potential benefits of the use of modern media to the modern nurse?
What would be some potential drawbacks? How might such media use affect the nurse-and-patient relationship?
Integrate the textbook reading in your reflection, using concepts, quotes, and/or paraphrases and citations, from both the “Doing Fieldwork” Chapter 3 by Nelson and the “Media Anthropology” Chapter 16 by Peake. Paraphrase or quote and cite from at least one scholarly, outside source to support your reflections, also.
Read
Chapter 16: Media Anthropology – Meaning, Embodiment, Infrastructure, and Activism
in Brown,Tubelle de Gonzalez, and McIlwraith (2020) *Full Textbook Attached File*
Watch
Please view this 3-and-a-half-minute video with an interview with media anthropologist and global tech ethnographer, Tricia Wang. She discusses some issues related to changing identities in varying online contexts and cultural performance that we examined in Week 12 of this course. She also explains potential applications of an anthropological perspective and of ethnography in varying business contexts:
Link: https://youtu.be/EwjVDE7MAvI?si=w1gwpeFIxqZ7VUAl
References:
American Anthropological Association. (2019, March 27). Tricia Wang: Global tech ethnography [Video file].
Peake, B. (2020). Media anthropology: Meaning, embodiment, infrastructure, and activism. In
Brown, T. McIlwraith, & L. Tubelle de Gonzalez (Eds.), Perspectives: An open
introduction to cultural anthropology (2nd ed., pp. 407-424). American Anthropological
Association.
