EKIS5160 Exploring Social Media Discourse (5 cr)
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Description
The course gives an overview of social media as sites for everyday language use, communication, (inter)action and cultural activities. In particular focus are informal and interest-driven social media practices of the 21st century. Drawing on sociolinguistics and multimodal discourse analysis, the course offer theoretical and methodological groundings for exploring social media practices. The course provides students with tools to analyze how language and other semiotic resources are used in digital social media for specific social and cultural purposes.
Learning outcomes
After this course, students will be able to:
understand and explain digital social media as spaces of language use, multimodality, communication and (inter)action
understand and use tools to analyse the features, functions and meanings of social media practices
discuss the roles and significance of digital social media practices in everyday life of individuals, communities, and societies
Description of prerequisites
Some knowledge of sociolinguistics, the study of multimodality, and discourse studies is useful.
Study materials
A selection of readings will be available on the course Moodle site.