週次

Week

課程主題

Topic

課程內容與指定閱讀

Content and Reading Assignment

教學活動與作業

Teaching Activities and Homework

學習投入時間

Student workload expectation

課堂講授

In-class Hours

課程前後

Outside-of-class Hours

1

Introduction:

What is Social Media? What is Digital Narrative?

什麼是社群媒體？

什麼是數位敘事？

Fuchs, Christian

2017 Social Media: A Critical Introduction. London: SAGE Publications.

[Read]

Chapter 2: What are Social Media and Big Data?

Lecture; small group discussions

3

2

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Anthropological Perspectives of Social Media and Digital Narrative

人類學取向的社群媒體和數位敘事研究

Alexander, Bryan

2011 The New Digital Storytelling: Creating Narratives with New Media. Oxford: Praeger.

[Read]

Chapter 1: Social Media Storytelling.

Fuchs, Christian

2017 Social Media: A Critical Introduction. 2nd Edition. London: SAGE Publications.

[Read]

Chapter 3: Social Media as Participatory Culture.

Gitner, Seth

2015 Multimedia Storytelling for Digital Communicators in a Multiplatform World. London: Routledge.

[Read]

Chapter 1: Visual Storytelling: In What Ways Do We Think about Visual Storytelling Every Day?

Lecture; small group discussions; documentary film

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Narrative in Online and Offline World

線上和離線世界的敘事

Hoffmann, Christian R.

2010 Introduction: Narrative Revisited: Telling a Story in the Age of New Media. In Narrative Revisited: Telling a Story in the Age of New Media. Christian R. Hoffmann, ed. Pp. 1-18. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Ochs, Elinor and Lisa Capps

2001 Living Narrative: Creating Lives in Everyday Storytelling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[Read]

Chapter 1: A Dimensional Approach to Narrative.

Koh, Angeline

2017 Digital Storytelling in Multicultural Singapore. In Digital Storytelling: Form and Content. Mark Dunford and Tricia Jenkins, eds. Pp. 49-56. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Lecture; group presentations; discussions;

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4

Multimodality, Heteroglossia and Social Media User

多模態性、眾聲喧嘩和社群媒體使用者

Jovanovic, Danica and Theo Van Leeuwen

2018 Multimodal Dialogue on Social Media. Social Semiotics 28(5): 683-699.

Blackledge, Adrian and Angela Creese

2019 Heteroglossia. In The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Ethnography. Karin

Tusting, eds. London: Routledge.

Tagg, Caroline

2016 Heteroglossia in Text-Messaging: Performing Identity and Negotiating Relationships in a Digital Space. Journal of Sociolinguistics 20(1): 59-85.

Lecture; group presentations; discussions;

3

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5

Affordance, Mediation and Digital Technology

能供性、中介性和數位科技

Evans, Sandra K., Katy E. Pearce, Jessica Vitak and Jeffrey W. Treem

2017 Explicating Affordances: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Affordances in Communication Research. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 22(1): 35-52.

Georgakopoulou, Alexandra

2019 Sharing the Moment as Small Stories: The Interplay between Practices and Affordances in the Social Media-Curation of Lives. In Storytelling in the Digital World. Anna De Fina and Sabina Perrino, eds. Pp.105-127. John Benjamins.

Tang, Shih-Che 唐士哲

2014 Reconceptualizing Media: An Exploration of Mediation and Mediatization (重構媒介？「中介」與「媒介化」概念爬梳). Mass Communication Research新聞學研究 121: 1-39.

Lecture; group presentations; discussions;

3

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Social Media, Public Sphere and Social Movement

社群媒體、公共領域和社會運動

Fuchs, Christian

2017 Social Media: A Critical Introduction. 2nd Edition. London: SAGE Publications.

[Read]

Chap 8: Twitter and Democracy: A New Public Sphere?

Chen, Yashu

2017 WeChat Use among Chinese College Students: Exploring Gratifications and Political Engagement in China. Journal of International & Intercultural Communication. 10(1): 25-43.

Moussa, Mohamed Ben

2019 Rap It Up, Share It Up: Identity Politics of Youth “Social” Movement in Moroccan Online Rap Music. New Media and Society 21(5): 1043-1064.

Lecture; group presentations; discussions;

3

9

7

Friendship, Populism and Social Media Networking

朋友圈、民粹主義和社群媒體網絡

Baldwin-Philippi, Jessica

2019 The Technological Performance of Populism. New Media & Society 21(2): 376-397.

Johnson, Amy Janan and Jennifer A.H. Becker

2017 CMC and the Conceptualization of “Friendship”: How Friendships Have Changed with the Advent of New Methods of Interpersonal Communication. In Computer-Mediated Communication in Personal Relationships. Kevin B. Wright and Lynne M. Webb, eds. New York: Peter Lang.

Lin, Jih-Hsuan 林日璇

2017 How do You Connect on Facebook? The Associations of Facebook Connection Strategies with Perceived Social Support and Psychological Well-being (你怎麼加臉書「好友」？連結策略與感知社會支持及心理幸福感的關聯性). The Journal of Information Society 資訊社會研究 32: 113-149. (in Chinese)

Lecture; group presentations; discussions;

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Community-Based Networking, Locality and Religiosity

社區為主的網絡、在地性和

宗教性

Helland, Christopher

2015 Virtual Tibet: From Media Spectacle to Co-Located Sacred Space. In Buddhism, the Internet and Digital Media: The Pixel in the Lotus. Gregory Price Grieve and Daniel Veidlinger, eds. Pp. 155-172. New York: Routledge.

Huang, Weishan

2017 WeChat Together about the Buddha: The Construction of Sacred Space and Religious Community in Shanghai through Social Media. In Religion and Media in China: Insights and Case Studies from the Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Stefania Travagnin, ed. Pp.110-128. New York: Routledge.

Ho, Wai-Yip

2017 Digital Islam across the Greater China: Connecting Virtual Ummah to the Chinese-Speaking Muslim Netizens. In Religion and Media in China: Insights and Case Studies from the Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Stefania Travagnin, ed. Pp. 187-202. New York: Routledge.

Lecture; group presentations; discussions;

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9

Mobile Media, Death and Mourning

手機媒體、死亡

與哀悼

Cumiskey, Kathleen M. and Larissa Hjorth

2017 Haunting Hands: Mobile Media Practices and Loss. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Chapter 1 Introduction to

Mobile Media and Loss.

Chapter 2 Co-present

Reconstructions of Death,

Loss and Mourning.

Chapter 3 Companionship.

Chapter 4 Affirmation and

Intensification.

Chapter 5 Transitions and

Letting Go.

Lecture; group presentations; discussions;

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10

Social Media, Kinship and Family 社群媒體、親屬

關係和家庭

McDonald, Tom

2016 Social Media in Rural China. London: UCL Press.

Chapter 1: The Social Media Landscape: Visibility and Economy.

Chapter 2:Visual Postings: Idealising family-love, marriage and ‘little treasures.’

Chapter 3: Relationships: Circles of Friends, Encounters with Strangers.

Chapter 4: Moral Accumulation: Collecting Credits on Social Media.

Chapter 5: Broader Relations: The Family, the State and Social Media.

Lecture; group presentations; discussions;

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Midterm Exam

12

Social Media, Advertising and Business Culture

社群媒體、廣告和商業文化

Puschmann, Cornelius and Rebecca Hagelmoser

2015 Corporate Blogging and Corporate Social Media. In The Routledge Handbook of Language and Digital Communication. Alexandra Georgakopoulou and Tereza Spilioti, eds. Pp. 226-238. London: Routledge.

Darics, Erika

2015 Digital Media in Workplace Interactions. In The Routledge Handbook of Language and Digital Communication. Alexandra Georgakopoulou and Tereza Spilioti, eds. Pp. 197-211. London: Routledge.

Orta, Andrew

2019 Making Global MBAs: The Culture of Business and The Business of Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Chapter 2: Fast Subjects: The Rituals of MBA Training.

Chapter 3: Accounting for Business.

Lecture; group presentations; discussions;

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Online Gaming, Interactivity and Selfhood

線上遊戲、互動性和自我觀

Taylor, T.L.

2009 Play between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture. Cambridge: the MIT Press.

Chapter 1: Finding New Worlds.

Chapter 2: Gaming Lifeworlds: Social Play in Persistent Environments.

Chapter 3: Beyond Fun: Instrumental Play and Power Games.

Chapter 5: Whose Games is This Anyway?

Lecture; group presentations; discussions;

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Sex, Gender, Intimacy and Social Media

性/別、親密關係和社群媒體

Archambault, Julie Soleil

2016 Mobile Secrets: Youth, Intimacy, and the Politics of Pretense in Mozambique.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Introduction: Living, Not Merely Surviving.

Chapter 1: The Communication Landscape.

Chapter 2: Display and Disguise.

Chapter 3: Crime and Carelessness.

Chapter 4: Love and Deceit.

Lecture; group presentations; discussions;

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Mobile Media, Class, Conflict and Sociality

手機媒體、階級、衝突和社會性

Tenhunen, Sirpa

2018 A Village Goes Mobile: Telephony, Mediation and Social Change in Rural India. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Chapter 1: Introduction.

Chapter 2: Theorizing Phone Use Contexts and Mediation.

Chapter 3: Why Mobile Phones Became Ubiquitous: Remediation and Socialities.

Chapter 6: Mediating Conflict.

Chapter 7: Smartphones, Caste, and Intersectionalities.

Lecture; group presentations; discussions;

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Selfies, Voicing, and Digital (Dis)empowerment

自拍照、發聲和數位賦權/去賦權

Zappavigna, Michele

2016 Social Media Photography: Construing Subjectivity in Instagram Images. Visual Communication 15(3) 271-292.

Wargo, Jon M.

2017 “Every Selfies Tells a Story… ”: LGBTQ Youth Lifestreams and New Media Narratives as Connective Identity Texts. New Media & Society 19(4): 560-578.

Velasquez, Alcides, Gretchen Montgomery and Jeffrey Hall

2019 Ethnic Minorities’ Social Media Political Use: How Ingroup Identification, Selective Exposure, and Collective Efficacy Shape Social Media Political Expression. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 24(4): 147-164.

Schmitt, Paul, Daniel Iland, Elizabeth Belding and Mariya Zheleva

2018 Cellular and Internet Connectivity for Displaced Populations. In Digital Lifeline? ICTs for Refugees and Displaced Persons. Carleen Maitland, Pp. 115-136.

Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Lecture; group presentations; discussions;

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Group Presentations

group presentations; discussions;

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Group Presentations

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group presentations; discussions;

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