How has your artifact’s meaning has been shaped or altered through a variety of social settings or contexts?

Cultural Artifact Project

Consider the meaning of an artifact of your choice as well as what it reveals about the culture(s) it is part of. Your essay should analyze what exactly the artifact is, its impact,and what we can learn about society as a result of studying it.

Specifically, your paper must address the following:

What does it mean to study an artifact as a cultural document? Assess the methods of two case study texts we’ve read in terms of how they have shaped your own work. How has your artifact attained meaning through its production and consumption?

How has your artifact’s meaning has been shaped or altered through a variety of social settings or contexts?

What effects does your artifact have on other artifacts, industries, societies or the planet more generally (whether through its creation, usage, or eventual obsolescence)?