SPECIAL TOPICS IN LANGUAGE STUDIES IN ENGLISH 2
文学部 - 英文学科
HEL61606
コース情報
担当教員: PINNER Richard
単位数: 2
年度: 2024
学期: 秋学期
曜限: 月2
形式: 対面授業+オンライン授業(オンデマンド授業,同時双方向型授業(Zoomなど)) /Alternating face-to-face & A
レベル: 300
アクティブラーニング: あり
他学部履修: 可
評価方法
出席状況
授業参加
リアクションペーパー
授業内期末試験
授業期間中
中間試験
授業期間中
小テスト等
その他
Students will complete discussion tasks in the Online Forums for each class (when there is no other assignment such as Mid-semester test or report). These forums form the bulk of the work for class. Students must post their own answer and reply to at least five other students in order for the forum to be marked as complete (a green tick will indicate completion on the Moodle).
詳細情報
概要
This class focuses on the effects of information and communication technology on language use, with special emphasis on digital culture. It is designed to be of interest to students learning about media, language or digital humanities. During the course, we will look at topics of importance to the way technology is influencing language. Special attention is given to the cultural, social, political and economic principles of language use, as the focus of the course is very much on the individual learner within the context of a global society.
目標
During this course, you will learn about some of the most important concepts that are at the centre of digital culture and language use. You will be required to reflect on your own learning experiences regularly, and these will form the basis of your final assessments. Ultimately, the objectives of this course are to share insights from the research on digital culture and language that will understand the influence of technology on communication and language.
授業外の学習
Each week students should prepare for the class by downloading and reading the handouts before class, and by doing their own research in order to maximise class time. Near the end of the semester, students will work in focus groups towards assignments that demonstrate their knowledge of the course content, and show that they have met the course aims.
所要時間: 190
スケジュール
- Introduction to the course and each other Issues in language and digital communication.
- Key Concepts: An introduction to the main theories for understanding the course - Polymedia, Extended Mind and The Networked Society.
- Digital natives or digital immigrants: Technology, evolution and plasticity of the brain. Are millennials a different species from their parents?
- Online vs. Offline: Identity and privacy in the networked society. Technoviking and going viral.
- Memes 1/2: the lingua franca of the net. Digital slang and ingroup identity.
- Memes 2/2: Is this Loss? Digital Culture and the Ludic, weird and inaccessible world of online discourse
- Mid-semester Review
- Thought Contagion: Media Moguls and critical thinking. The issue of polarisation due to algorithms and confirmation bias.
- Trolls: The online disinhibition effect and the issue of empathy online.
- Fake News: Why do people write fake news, why do people believe it? Understanding its impact.
- Digital media and literacies: reading, writing and participation in the digital age. Snippet Literacy and the spread of digital devices.
- Dasein or being there: are smartphones making us dumb? Are they making us depressed? Who cares?
- Augmented Communication: introduction and discussion of exomemory and the theory of extended mind.
- Summary and wrap-up. Review of main features of the course.
教科書
Free Text: Handouts provided by the teacher, which will be available on the Virtual Learning Environment (Moodle) and should be printed and read before each class.
参考書
Augmented Communication: The effect of digital devices on face-to-face interactions
著者: Pinner, Richard S
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan. 2019