Communication via new media 15-KZPNM-JIK-11

The seminar will address the question of how media, facilitated by modern technologies, mediate communication between the sender and the recipient. The characteristics of this type of communication will be discussed, demonstrating new potential for identity construction, rapport building and manipulation. By referring to the students’ personal experience as media consumers as well as, importantly, media producers, we will examine the increasingly participatory nature of today’s media consumption. In fact, students will be invited to co-construct the course by contributing topics, readings and activities.
The course will draw on (and question) the distinction between new media and traditional ones, and show how the convergence of media and technologies calls for new skills and has produced new literacies. We will highlight such features of mediated communication as interactivity, non-sequentiality, synchronicity and multimodality. Issues of privacy and safety will also be addressed. Finally, sample data on the use of modern technologies in new contexts will be collected and analysed.
Some topics include
- media convergence
- (digital) media literacy
- new communication platforms
- social networking for social action
- social media ethics; privacy and safety

Module learning aims

The seminar will address the question of how media, facilitated by modern technologies, mediate communication between the sender and the recipient. 1. knowledge in media theory and mediated-communication 2. skills in methods of analysing language and discourse 3. ability to read CRITICALLY scholarly articles and popular (media) texts 4. ability to present scholarly ideas and to evaluate them critically 5. ability to participate in scholarly debate 6. ability to conduct a critical analysis of media texts 7. ability to write texts presenting original analysis of media texts and of communication via media

Information on where to find course materials

BFN Library and the dedicated moodle course, AMU library

Major

English philology Specialisation: Language and communication in media and politics (Lancom)

Methods of teaching for learning outcomes achievement

(in Polish) Seminarium; krytyczne omówienie wybranych tekstów naukowych przez studentów, dyskusja z odniesieniem do indywidualnych praktyk uczestnictwa w mediach i podaniem przykładów odnośnych tekstów

Student workload (ECTS credits)

3 points

Cycle of studies

2nd cycle

Module type

compulsory

Year of studies (where relevant)

Year 2

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences

(in Polish) Podstawowe umiejętności z zakresu analizy dyskursu

Assessment criteria

Students’ evaluation will be based on
(1) the continuous assessment of class participation, in-class task completion and homework
(2) the completion of individual tasks involving data collection and analysis.

Bibliography

Dabrowska, Marta. 2015. Variation in language: Faces of Facebook English. Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang.

Durant, Alan and Marina Lambrou. 2009. Language and media: A resource book for students. Abingdon: Routledge.

Dwyer, Timothy. 2010. Media convergence. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

Dwyer, Timothy. 2016. Convergent media and privacy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Herring, Susan. 2000. "Gender Differences in CMC: Findings and Implications." Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility Newsletter, Winter. http://www.cpsr.org/publications/newsletters/issues/2000/Winter2000/herring.html

Herring, Susan. 2001. “Computer-mediated discourse”, in: D. Tannen, D. Schiffrin, and H. Hamilton (eds.). 2001. Handbook of discourse analysis. Oxford: Blackwell, 612-634.

Herring, Susan C. Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis: An Approach to Researching Online Behavior. http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/cmda.html

Jenkins, H. 2006. Convergence culture: Where old and new media collide. New York: New York University Press.

Lievrouw, Leah A. and Sonia M. Livingstone (eds.). 2006. Handbook of new media: Social shaping and social consequences of ICT. London: Sage.

Media Consumption Habits Across Generations: Rethinking What You Know: Deloitte Insights podcast.
http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_US/us/Insights/Browse-by-Content-Type/podcasts/Technology-Podcasts/594291eec77a9210VgnVCM200000bb42f00aRCRD.htm

Potter, W. James. 2008. Media literacy. (4th edition.) Los Angeles: Sage.

Tagg, Caroline. 2010 “Wot did he say or could u not c him 4 dust? Written and spoken creativity in text messaging”, in: Ho et al. (eds). Transforming Literacies and Language: Innovative technologies, integrated experiences. Continuum, 223-236.

Tagg. Caroline. 2015. Exploring digital communication: Language in action. Abingdon: Routledge.

Talbot, Mary. 2007. Media discourse: Representation and interaction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Thurlow, Crispin, Laura Lengel and Alice Tomic. 2004. Computer mediated communication: Social interaction and the internet. Los Angeles: Sage.

Thurlow, Crispin and Kristine Mroczek. (eds.). 2011. Digital discourse: Language in the new media. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Additional information

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