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Introduction
Looking at Digital Media through the Lens of Language and Culture
透過語言和文化探討數位媒體（網路、智慧手機、社群媒體）
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3
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2
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Language, Digital Ethnography and New Media
語言、數位民族誌和新媒體
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Rampton, Ben, Janet Maybin and Celia Roberts
2015 Theory and Method in Linguistic Ethnography. In Linguistic Ethnography: Interdisciplinary Explorations. Julia Snell, Sara Shaw and Fiona Copland, eds. Pp. 14-
50. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
Barton, David and Carmen Lee
2013 Language Online: Investigating Digital Texts and Practices. London: Routledge.
Chapter 12: Researching Language Online.
Yin, Yiyi and Zhouxiao Xie
2024 Playing Platformized Language Games: Social Media Logic and the Mutation of Participatory Cultures in Chinese Online Fandom. New Media & Society 26(2): 619-641.
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3
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8
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3
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Language Variation and Multilingualism Online 語言變異和網路多語主義
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Varis, Piia and Mingyi Hou
2019 Digital Approaches in Linguistic Ethnography. In The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Ethnography. Karin Tusting, eds. London: Routledge.
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.
Lee, Carmen
2017 Multilingualism Online. London: Routledge.
Chapter 4: Multilingual Practices and Identities Online.
McEntee-Atalianis, L., Ateek, M., & Gardner-Chloros, P.
2023 Multilingual Repertoires and Identity in Social Media: Syrian Refugees on Facebook. International Journal of Bilingualism 27(5): 731-748.
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3
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4
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Translanguaging and Superdiversity 跨語實踐和超多樣性
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Nekvapil, Jiri and Tamah Sherman 2018 Managing Superdiversity in Multinational Companies. In The Routledge Handbook of Language and Superdiversity: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Angela Cresse and Adrian Blackledge, eds. Pp. 329-344.
Wei, Li
2018 Translanguaging as a Practical Theory of Language. Applied Linguistics 39(1): 9-30.
Varis, P. and Xuan Wang
2011 Superdiversity on the Internet: A Case from China. Diversities 13(2): 71-83.
Ren, Wei and Yaping Guo
2024 Translanguaging in Self-Praise on Chinese Social Media. Applied Linguistics Review 15(1): 355-376.
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3
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5
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Multimodal Communication, Social Media and the Visual
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Zappavigna, Michele
2016 Social Media Photography: Construing Subjectivity in Instagram Images. Visual Communication 15(3): 271-292.
Nakassis, C.V.
2023 A Linguistic Anthropology of Images. Annual Review of Anthropology 52(1): 73-91.
Vaisman, Carmel L.
2016 Pretty in Pink vs. Pretty in Black: Blogs as Gendered Avatars. Visual Communication, 15(3): 293-315.
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3
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6
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Multimodal Communication and Semiotics
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Jewitt, Carey and Henriksen, Berit
2016 Social Semiotic Multimodality. In Handbuch Sprache im multimodalen Kontext. Nina-Maria Klug and Hartmut Stöckl, eds. Pp.145-164. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Jovanovic, D., & Van Leeuwen, T.
2018 Multimodal Dialogue on Social Media. Social Semiotics 28(5): 683-699.
Ledin, Per and David Machin
2018 Doing Critical Discourse Studies with Multimodality: From Metafunctions to Materiality. Critical Discourse Studies 16(5): 497-513.
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8
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7
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National Holiday
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Language, Memes and Emoji
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Wiggins, Bradley E.
2019 The Discursive Power of Memes in Digital Culture: Ideology, Semiotics, and Intertextuality. London: Routledge.
Chapter 2: The Discursive Power of Memes in Digital Culture.
Konrad, Artie, Susan C Herring, David Choi
2020 Sticker and Emoji Use in Facebook Messenger: Implications for Graphicon Change. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 25(3): 217-235.
Dickinson, Jennifer
2020 Emoji and Emoji Language. The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118786093.iela0442
Tang, Ying and Khe Foon Hew
2019 Emoticon, Emoji, and Sticker Use in Computer-Mediated Communication: A Review of Theories and Research Findings. International Journal of Communication 13: 2457-2483.
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3
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8
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9
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Hate Speech and Online Communication
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Wilson, Richard Ashby
2019 The Digital Ethnography of Law: Studying Online Hate Speech Online and Offline. Journal of Legal Anthropology 3(1): 1-20.
Pohjonen, Matti
2019 A Comparative Approach to Social Media Extreme Speech: Online Hate Speech as Media Commentary. International Journal of Communication 13: 3088-3103.
Costello, Matthew and James Hawdon
2020 Hate Speech in Online Spaces. In The Palgrave Handbook of International Cybercrime and Cyberdeviance. T. J. Holt and A. M. Bossler, eds. Pp.1397-1416. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Aziz, A.
2024 Rohingya Diaspora Online: Mapping the Spaces of Visibility, Resistance and Transnational Identity on Social Media. New Media & Society 26(9): 5219-5239.
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Community of Practice, Online 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. London: Routledge.
Wu, Xiaoping
2018 Discursive Strategies of Resistance on Weibo: A Case Study of the 2015 Tianjin Explosions in China. Discourse, Context & Media 26: 64-73.
Milani, Tommaso M.
2013 Are ‘Queers’ Really ‘Queer’? Language, Identity and Same-sex Desire in a South African Online Community. Discourse and Society 24(5): 615-633.
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Language Ideology, Digital Discourse and COVID-19 Pandemics
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Subtirelu, Nicholas Close
2017 Raciolinguistic Ideology and Spanish-English Bilingualism on the US Labor Market: An Analysis of Online Job Advertisements. Language in Society 46(4): 477-505.
Zhu, Hongqiang
2020 Countering COVID-19-related Anti-Chinese Racism with Translanguaged Swearing on Social Media. Multilingua 39(5): 607-616.
Spilioti, Tereza
2015 Digital Discourse: A Critical Perspective. In The Routledge Handbook of Language and Digital Communication. Alexandra Georgakopoulou and Tereza
Spilioti, eds., Pp. 133-148. London: Routledge.
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Ethnographic Case:
Young Adults On- and Offline
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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.
Chapter 1: The first chapter, Language, Culture, and the Periphery.
Chapter 2: Transglossia: From Translanguaging to Transglossia.
Chapter 3: Translossia and Music: Music, Sound and Authenticity.
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Ethnographic Case:
Work, Gender and the Visual
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Lukács, Gabriella
2020 Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan's Digital Economy. Durham: Duke University Press.
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
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3
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8
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14
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Ethnographic Case:
Language, Political Activism and Social Media
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Sinatora, Francesco L.
2019 Language, Identity, and Syrian Political Activism on Social Media. London: Routledge.
Chapter 2: Hybridity on Syrian Dissidents’ Social Media.
Chapter 3: Hybridity and Cosmopolitan Identities.
Chapter 6: Hybridity, Secular Identities and Radical Islamic Discourse.
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15
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Ethnographic Case:
Ageing, Care and Smartphone
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Wang, Xinyuan
2024 Ageing with Smartphones in Urban China: From the Cultural to the Digital Revolution in Shanghai. London: UCL Press.
1 Introduction
2 Ageing and retirement: ruptures and continuity
3 Everyday life: Daily activities and the digital routine
5 Crafting the smartphone
6 Crafting health: the moral body and the therapeutic smartphone
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Final Project Presentation
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