SemesterFall Semester, 2020
DepartmentJunior Class of Department of Ethnology Senior Class of Department of Ethnology
Course NameLanguage, Culture and Digital Media
InstructorLIU TZU KAI
Credit3.0
Course TypeElective
Prerequisite
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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



(09/14)



Introduction: Looking at Digital Media through the Lenses of Language and Culture



 


 

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



 



 


 

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.



 



Lecture; Discussion



3



6



3



(09/28)



Language Variation and Digital Media



              


 

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



 



 


 

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


 

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.



 



 



 



6 (10/19)



Style, Genre and Repertoire



 



 


 

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



 



 


 

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



      



 


 

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



 



 


 

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



 



 


 

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


 

 



 



 



 



12 (11/30)



Cultural Politics of Indigenous Media



 



 


 

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


 

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


 

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


 

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



                



 


 

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


 

 



Group Presentations



3



 



18



(01/11)



Final week


 

Individual final papers due


     


 


Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant
Requirement/Grading

Class Attendance/Participation 13% (1pts per week)



Weekly Discussion Questions 11% (1pts per week)



Written Assignment: My Experiences of Linguistic and Cultural Landscape 6%



In-class Individual Presentation (Week 6 and Week 7): My Experiences of Linguistic and Cultural Landscape 6%



In-class Group Activity (Week 8 and Week 9): Intercultural Communication 8%



In-class Group Activity (Week 17): Interdisciplinary Debate 8%



Group Presentation on Articles (each group once): 8%



Midterm Exam 20%



Final Paper (personal written paper) 20%


Textbook & Reference

[Required Text



Ginsburg, Faye D., Lila Abu-Lughod and Brian Larkin, eds.



  2002 Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Berkeley: University of California Press.



 Johnson, Sally and Astrid Esslin, eds.



  2007 Language in the Media. New York: Continuum.



Georgakopoulou, Alexandra and Tereza Spilioti, eds.



  2015 The Routledge Handbook of Language and Digital Communication. London: Routledge.



Barton, David and Carmen Lee



  2013 Language Online: Investigating Digital Texts and Practices. London: Routledge.



Dovchin, Sender, Shaila Sultana and Alastair Pennycook



  2018 Popular Culture, Voice and Linguistic Diversity: Young Adults On- and Offline. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.



Chandler, Daniel



  2017 Semiotics: The Basics. London: Routledge.



Tusting, Karin, ed.



  2020 The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Ethnography. London: Routledge.



Sinatora, Francesco L.



  2019 Language, Identity, and Syrian Political Activism on Social Media. London: Routledge.



Mcintosh, Janet and Norma Mendoza-Denton, eds.



  2020 Language in the Trump Era: Scandals and Emergencies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.



 



[Recommended Texts



Bell, Joshua A. and Joel C. Kuipers, eds.



  2018 Linguistic and Material Intimacies of Cell Phones. London: Routledge.



Tannen, Deborah and Anna Marie Trester, eds.



  2013 Discourse 2.0: Language and New Media. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.



Zappavigna, Michele



  2012 Discourse of Twitter and Social Media: How We Use Language to Create Affiliation on the Web. London: Continuum.



Wang, Xinyuan



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



Seargeant, Philip and Caroline Tagg



  2013 The Language of Social Media: Identity and Community on the Internet. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.


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