週次 |
每週規劃授課進度
Topic |
授課內容
Reading Assignment |
Student workload expectation |
1
(09/04) |
Looking at Digital Media through the Lens of Language and Culture |
Introduction |
In-class hours: 3
Outside-of-class hours: 3
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2
(09/11) |
Language, Digital Ethnography and New Media |
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.
De Seta, Gabriele
2020 Three Lies of Digital Ethnography. Journal of Social Research 2(1): 77-97.
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. |
In-class hours: 3
Outside-of-class hours: 6 |
3
(09/18) |
Language Variation and Multilingualism Online |
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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In-class hours: 3
Outside-of-class hours: 6 |
4
(09/25) |
Translanguaging and Superdiversity |
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. |
In-class hours: 3
Outside-of-class hours: 6 |
5
(10/02) |
Multimodal Communication, Social Media and the Visual |
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. |
In-class hours: 3
Outside-of-class hours: 6 |
6
(10/09) |
Multimodal Communication and Semiotics |
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. |
In-class hours: 3
Outside-of-class hours: 6 |
7
(10/16) |
Off-campus visits |
Tour to the media company and the museum in Taipei |
8
(10/23) |
Language, Memes and Emoji |
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 |
In-class hours: 3
Outside-of-class hours: 6 |
9
(10/30) |
Hate Speech and Online Communication |
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.
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. |
In-class hours: 3
Outside-of-class hours: 6
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10
(11/06) |
Community of Practice, Online 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. 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. |
In-class hours: 3
Outside-of-class hours: 6
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11
(11/13) |
Language Ideology, Digital Discourse, COVID-19 Pandemics and ChatGPT |
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.
McNally, K., Wright, K., Goldkind, L., Kattari, S. K., & Victor, B. G.
2024 Disability Expertise and Large Language Models: A Qualitative Study of Autistic TikTok Creators’ Use of ChatGPT. Social Media + Society, 10(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241279549 |
In-class hours: 3
Outside-of-class hours: 6
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12
(11/20) |
Disability, Digital Communication and Digital Media |
Ginsburg, Faye
2012 Disability in the Digital Age. In
Digital Anthropology. Heather A. Horst and Daniel Miller, eds. Routledge.
Lin, Z., & Yang, L.
2021 Smartphones as actors: A new digital disability care actor-network in China. International Journal of Cultural Studies 24(4): 673-688.
Kaur, H., & Saukko, P.
2022 Social access: role of digital media in social relations of young people with disabilities. New Media & Society 24(2): 420-436.
Jaraisy, Marah, and Rose Stamp
2024 Word of Mouth: Mouthing Patterns in a Bimodal Multilingual Deaf Community. Language in Society 1-26. |
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13
(11/27) |
Ethnographic Case: Language Revitalization and Postcoloniality
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Makananise, Fulufhelo Oscar, eds.
2024 Decolonising Digital Media and Indigenisation of Participatory Epistemologies: Languages of the Global South.
Chapter 1: Decolonial Thinking of Digital Media Inequalities and Indigenous Language Marginalisation of the Global South from the South African Context (by Fulufhelo Oscar Makananise)
Chapter 4: Incorporating Indigenous Language in TikTok Content Creation: Influence of IsiZulu in Content Creation (by Khatija BiBi Khan)
Chapter 6: "Tlen quihtoa moyollo?" – "What does your heart tell you?": Language Revitalisation and Postcolonial Cultural Education among the #Nahuatl Language Teaching Community on TikTok (by Amanda R. Ruschak)
Chapter 9: Revitalising Endangered Languages through Social Media: A Case Study of Olunyore Language Preservation through Facebook in Kenya (by Jackline U. Lidubwi and John O. Ndavula) |
In-class hours: 3
Outside-of-class hours: 6
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14
(12/04) |
Ethnographic Case:
Work, Gender and the Visual |
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 |
In-class hours: 3
Outside-of-class hours: 6
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15
(12/11) |
Ethnographic Case:
Language, Youth and Online Abuse |
Ringrose, Jessica and Kaitlyn Regehr 2025 Teens, Social Media, and Image Based Abuse. London: Palgrave Macmillan Cham. |
In-class hours: 3
Outside-of-class hours: 6
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16
(12/18)
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Final Project Presentation |
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In-class hours: 3
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