Παρουσίαση/Προβολή

(410360) -  Τερέζα Σπηλιώτη

Περιγραφή Μαθήματος

The aim of this course is to develop a critical understanding of digital language and discourse as an area of media communication and as a field of study. The course focuses on internet-based discourse, including email messages, echat, social media, such as personal blogs, Facebook, X (formerly known as Twitter), YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and Reddit, and some instances of human-machine interaction (afforded by Artificial Intelligence).

Aims:

• Examines the nature of digital text(s) as a mode of discourse, including the relation between text, meaning, human agency and technology
• Discusses a range of linguistic and sociocultural theories and methodologies and applies them to the systematic and ethical study of digital language and communication
• Explores how language and communication are shaped by – and, at times, shape – digital media affordances
• Analyses language patterns and communicative practices in a range of digital (spoken, written and multimodal) texts
  
  

Learning Outcomes

After completing the course, the student should be able to:

1. Knowledge and Understanding

• Understand the ways in which social context and media affordances shape language and communication in digital environments
• Identify language and communicative patterns in limited data sets of digital texts
• Critically review linguistic and sociocultural theories and methodologies
• Explain the relation between text, meaning, human agency and technology through specific case-studies

 

1. Intellectual Competence

• Apply qualitative and quantitative methodologies to the study of digital language and communication
• Collect systematically and ethically limited data sets of digital texts
• Analyse digital (spoken, written, multimodal) data in a rigorous and critical manner

 

1. Other Skills

• Communicate ideas and produce a critical argument in English
• Develop basic IT skills
• Develop skills required for the completion of a small-scale research project
• Develop collaborative skills through in-class participation in group activities

 

Ημερομηνία δημιουργίας

Τετάρτη 10 Σεπτεμβρίου 2025