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週次
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課程主題
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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
(09/14) |
Introduction: Looking at Digital Media through the Lenses of Language and Culture
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Barton, David and Carmen Lee 2013 Language Online: Investigating Digital Texts and Practices. [Read] Chapter 2: Ten Reasons Why Studying the Online World is Crucial for Understanding Language. Chapter 12: Researching Language Online. |
Lecture; Discussion |
3 |
3 |
2
(09/21) |
Language, Digital Ethnography and New Media
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Gershon, Ilana and Paul Manning
2014 Language and Media. In The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology. N.J. Enfield, Paul Kockelman and Jack Sidnell, eds. Pp.559-576.
Varis Piia
2015 Digital Ethnography. In The Routledge Handbook of Language and Digital Communication. Alexandra Georgakopoulou and Tereza Spilioti, eds., Pp.55-68.
Gershon, Ilana
2017 Language and the Newness of Media. Annual Review of Anthropology 46: 15-31.
McCulloch, Gretchen
2019 Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language. Riverhead Books.
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Lecture; Discussion |
3 |
6 |
3
(09/28) |
Language Variation and Digital Media
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Lee, Carmen
2015 Multilingual Resources and Practices in Digital Communication. In The Routledge
Handbook of Language and Digital Communication. Alexandra Georgakopoulou and
Tereza Spilioti, eds., Pp.55-68.
Hinrichs, Lars
2015 Approaches to Language Variation. In The Routledge Handbook of Language and
Digital Communication. Alexandra Georgakopoulou and Tereza Spilioti, eds., Pp.19-35.
Nishimura, Yukiko
2006 Linguistic Innovations and Interactional Features of Casual Online Communication in Japanese. Journal of Computer?Mediated Communication 9(1). |
Lecture; Discussion |
3 |
6 |
4
(10/05) |
Translanguaging and Multilingual Communication
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Barton, David and Carmen Lee
2013 Language Online: Investigating Digital Texts and Practices.
Chapter 5: Taking Up Affordances of Multiple Languages.
Tagg, Caroline
2015 Exploring Digital Communication: Language in Action.
Chapter 17: Multiliteracies.
Chapter 18: Translanguaging via a Superdiverse Internet.
Wei, Li
2018 Translanguaging as a Practical Theory of Language. Applied Linguistics 39(1): 9-30. |
Lecture; Discussion |
3 |
6 |
5
(10/12) |
Language and Memes |
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Shifman, Limor
2013 Memes in Digital Culture. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
Wiggins, Bradley E.
2019 The Discursive Power of Memes in Digital Culture: Ideology, Semiotics, and Intertextuality. London: Routledge. |
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6 (10/19) |
Style, Genre and Repertoire
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Kosinski and David Stillwell
2018 One Size Fits All: Context Collapse, Self-Presentation Strategies and Language
Styles on Facebook. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 23(3): 127-145.
Boczkowski, Pablo J., Mora Matassi and Eugenia Mitchelstein
2018 How Young Users Deal with Multiple Platforms: The Role of Meaning-Making in Social Media Repertoires. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 23(5): 245-259.
Barton, David and Carmen Lee
2013 Language Online: Investigating Digital Texts and Practices.
Chapter 7: Stance-taking through Language and Image. |
Lecture; Discussion |
3 |
6 |
7 (10/26) |
Multimodality, Interactivity, Semiotics and Digital Communication
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Lew, Zijian, Joseph B Walther, Augustine Pang and Wonsun Shin
2018 Interactivity in Online Chat: Conversational Contingency and Response Latency in Computer-mediated Communication. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
23(4): 201-221.
Ledin, Per and David Machin
2018 Doing Critical Discourse Studies with Multimodality: From Metafunctions to
Materiality. Critical Discourse Studies (Online article)
Thurlow, Crispin
2017 Forget about the Words? Tracing the Language, Media and Semiotic Ideologies of
Digital Discourse: The Case of Sexting. Discourse, Context and Media 20: 10-19.
Group Presentation: My Linguistic and Cultural Landscape (I) |
Lecture; Discussion |
3 |
6 |
8
(11/2) |
Community of Practice, Speech Community and Civic Participation
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Angouri, Jo
2015 Online Communities and Communities of Practices. In The Routledge Handbook
of Language and Digital Communication. Alexandra Georgakopoulou and Tereza
Spilioti, eds., Pp. 323-338.
Xiong, Bingjuan
2019 Communicating Citizenship in China’s Digital Society. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication 12(2): 128-145.
Adsanatham, Chanon
2016 Building a Digital Counterpublic: Civic Affordances of Twitter under Thai Authoritarian Governance. In Social Media in Asia: Changing Paradigms of
Communication. Azman Azman Azmawati and Rachel E. Khan, eds., Pp. 130-153.
Group Presentation: My Linguistic and Cultural Landscape (II) |
Lecture; Discussion |
3 |
6 |
9
(11/09) |
Language, Network Analysis and the User/Audience Perspectives
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Paolillo, John C.
2001 Language Variation on Internet Relay Chat: A Social Network Approach. Journal of Sociolinguistics 5(2):180-213.
French, Megan and Natalya N. Bazarova
2017 Is Anybody Out There?: Understanding Masspersonal Communication through Expectations for Response across Social Media Platforms. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 22(6): 303-319.
Group Presentation: My Linguistic and Cultural Landscape (III) |
Lecture; Discussion |
3 |
6 |
10 (11/16) |
Networked Sociality, Polymedia and Online Community
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LeBlanc-Wories, Tracy
2015 Being in the Cloud: Analysis of Discourse in Online Community. In The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology. Nancy Bonvillain, ed. Pp.80-92.
Liu, Tzu-kai
2015 Minority Youth, Mobile Phones and Language Use: Wa Migrant Workers’ Engagements with Networked Sociality and Mobile Communication in Urban China. Asian Ethnicity 16(3): 334-352.
Keating, Elizabeth
2018 Technologically Mediated Sociality: Negotiating Culture, Communication and Access. In Linguistic and Material Intimacies of Cell Phones. Joshua A. Bell and Joel C. Kuipers, eds. Pp. 148-166. |
Lecture; Discussion |
3 |
6 |
11 (11/23) |
Midterm Exam |
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12 (11/30) |
Cultural Politics of Indigenous Media
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Fisher, Daniel
2019 To Sing with Another’s Voice: Animation, Circumspection, and the Negotiation of Indigeneity in Northern Australian New Media. American Ethnologist 46(1): 34-46.
Carlson, Bronwyn
2013 The ‘New Frontier’: Emergent Indigenous Identities and Social Media. In The Politics of Identity: Emerging Indigeneity. Michelle Harris, Martin Nakata and
Bronwyn Carlson, eds., Pp. 147-168.
Ginsburg, Faye D.
2002 Screen Memories: Resignifying the Traditional in Indigenous Media. In Media
Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Faye D. Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod and
Brian Larkin, eds. Pp. 39-57.
Group Presentation:
Intercultural Activity (I) |
A Talk given by a Guest Speaker; Discussion |
3 |
6 |
13 (12/07) |
Language, Popular Culture and Voice |
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Dovchin, Sender, Shaila Sultana and Alastair Pennycook
2018 Popular Culture, Voice and Linguistic Diversity: Young Adults On- and Offline.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Group Presentation:
Intercultural Activity (II) |
Lecture; Discussion |
3 |
6 |
14 (12/14) |
Language, Social Activists and Social Media |
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Sinatora, Francesco L.
2019 Language, Identity, and Syrian Political Activism on Social Media. London: Routledge.
Group Debate (I) |
Lecture; Discussion |
3 |
6 |
15 (12/21) |
Racial Discourse, Algorithms and Search Engine |
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Noble, Safiya Umoja
2018 Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. New York: NYU Press.
Florini, Sarah
2019 Beyond Hashtags: Racial Politics and Black Digital Networks. New York: NYU Press.
Group Debate (II) |
Lecture; Discussion |
3 |
6 |
16 (12/28) |
Language, Twitter and Digital Communication
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McIntosh, Janet and Norma Mendoza-Denton, eds.
2020 Language in the Trump Era: Scandals and Emergencies. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Group Debate (III) |
Lecture; Discussion |
3 |
6 |
17 (01/04) |
Final Project Presentations |
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Group Presentations |
3 |
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18
(01/11) |
Final week |
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Individual final papers due |
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