Course calendar

Week 1
T 9/30: Introduction to the course. Discussion about "popular culture" and globalization.
R 10/2: Text introductions. Reading: Pieterse, Introduction, 1-5, Allison, Foreword (by Gary Cross) and chapter 1, xv-xviii and 1-34, and Goggin, Introduction, 1-16. Excerpts from Spirited Away (2001).

Week 2
T 10/7: Globalization debates. Cell phones in historical perspective. Reading: Pieterse, chapter 1, 7-21, and Goggin, chapter 2, 19-40.
R 10/9: Post-War Japan. Reading: Allison, chapter 2, 35-65. Watch: Episode 1 of Paranoia Agent.

Week 3
T 10/14: Technology and identity. Reading: Allison, chapter 3, 66-92, and Goggin, chapter 3, 41-62. Watch: Episode 2 of Paranoia Agent.
R 10/16: Migrations. Reading: Allison, chapter 4, 93-127, and Pieterse, chapter 2, 23-39. Watch: Episode 3 of Paranoia Agent. Preliminary essay 1 posted.

Week 4
T 10/21: Cell phones: specific cultural practices. Reading: Goggin, chapter 4 and chapter 5, 65-103. Watch: episodes from Digital Ethnography.
R 10/23: Three ways of looking at cultural globalization. Reading: Pieterse, chapter 3, 41-58. Watch: Episode 4 of Paranoia Agent.

Week 5
T 10/28: Youth cultures and moral panics. Reading: Allison, chapter 5, 128-162, and Goggin, chapter 6, 107-125. Watch: Episode 5 of Paranoia Agent. ***Note: Tournées Festival starts tonight.
R 10/30: Celebrity cultures. Reading: Goggin, chapter 7, 126-140. Watch: Episode 6 of Paranoia Agent. Preliminary essay 2 posted.

Week 6
T 11/4: Hybridities big and small. Reading: Allison, chapter 6, 163-191, and Pieterse, chapter 4, 59-83. Watch: Episode 7 of Paranoia Agent. ***Note Tournées Festival continues tonight.
R 11/6: Cell phones as visual technologies. Reading: Goggin, chapter 8, 143-161. Watch: Episode 8 of Paranoia Agent.

Week 7
T 11/11: Screening of Bomb It (2007). ***Note Tournées Festival continues tonight.
R 11/13: Pocket technologies. Reading: Allison, chapter 7, 192-233, and Goggin, chapter 9, 162-186. Watch: Episode 9 of Paranoia Agent. Preliminary essay 3 posted.

Week 8
T 11/18: Pokémonizing the world. Reading: Allison, chapter 8, 234-270. Watch: Episode 10 of Paranoia Agent. ***Note Tournées Festival continues tonight.
R 11/20: Anti-hybridity. Reading: Pieterse, chapter 5, 85-111. Watch: Episode 11 of Paranoia Agent.

Week 9
T 11/25: Screening of Lost in Translation (2003). Reading: Allison, Epilogue, 271-274 (to, "For example, in Duel Masters ?"). ***Note Tournées Festival finishes tonight. Preliminary essay 4 posted.
R 11/27: No class. Thanksgiving break.

Week 10
T 12/2: New geographies and the cell phone. Reading: Goggin, chapter 10, 187-204. Watch: Episode 12 of Paranoia Agent.
R 12/4: Conclusions. Reading: Goggin, chapter 11, 205-211, Allison, Epilogue, 274-279 (continued from 11/25), and Pieterse, chapter 6, 113-117. Watch: Episode 13 of Paranoia Agent. Final essay posted.

Finals week: Final essays due by 6:00 on R 12/11. Details TBA.