The course aims to expose the students to how the digital are affects culture, society, and the community around the world. Throughout the course, we will examine how classical and contemporary anthropology theories help us understand the role of digital technologies in society and how anthropological research tools can be applied in digital research. By discussing the evolving discipline of digital anthropology, we will examine the significance of technological tools such as mobile phones, smartphones, social networks, computer games in diverse social and cultural contexts. We will discuss the interfaces and fluidity of the spaces between online and offline and the creation of online communities, the intersections of globalization and digital spaces, online activism etc. 

This course examines how gendered social order affects how men experience themselves, other men, women, and social situations through the concept of masculinities. The students will be exposed to masculinities studies as a discipline and as a social, political and economic phenomenon. The course is designed to familiarise the students with the concept of masculinity and examine how the modern era, characterized by ambiguity and confusion regarding the idea of masculinity, affects men who suffer from an identity crisis when traditional masculine values ​​can no longer adequately serve them. Through sociological and anthropological theories concerning men and masculinities, the students will conduct a critical and interdisciplinary examination of the social construction of men and masculinities in multiple cultural and historical contexts. Alongside focusing on Israeli masculinity's social and historic structure, the course will deal with various issues such as initiation ceremonies, militarism, masculinity and sexuality, fatherhood, masculinity and sports, masculinity and work, and the intersections of gender, nationality, ethnicity and class. 

The course will deal with the history of pornography and the theoretical-political debates surrounding the issue. During the course, we will examine pornography as part of establishing the broad field of sexuality while focusing on the controversy between different feminist theories. Does pornography harm women, serves as an act of violence against them (as individuals and as a group), or can it produce alternative constructions of gender and sexuality? During the course, we will examine theoretical texts as well as cultural texts from diverse fields such as art, poetry, literature and cinema. 

The course will examine the multidisciplinary field of robotics using an anthropological lens. We will explore how robots, artificial intelligence, artificial life and cyborgs, reflect and reveal the social arrangements and cultural practices that created them. What are the cultural ideas that permeate the robot manufacturing process? How do various robots challenge social and cultural perceptions about human identity and the relationship between humans and the posthuman? What is a social robot? Do robots have agency? Are robots a danger to humanity? Through laboratory tours, meetings with researchers in the field and critical reading and analysis of texts, students will discuss these questions in a variety of areas related to popular culture (literature and cinema), imagination and fiction, the world of work, ageing, power, gender and the politics of the cyborg body, care, intimacy, sexuality, identity, etc.  

The course aims to introduce students to one of the dominant paradigms in today's social sciences - qualitative interpretive research - while learning key concepts of the paradigm and practical experience with the methods for empirical research it offers.