ENGL 4267: Language and Culture in Digital Spaces
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Explores how humans make cyberspace into social and cultural spaces through diverse language practices. �Considers how technology use shapes and is shaped in social interaction and how identities, relationships, and discourses develop through digitally-mediated language use. Section information text: This course targets some of the key discourses regarding the digital culture we produce and inhabit and explores language and communication in a networked, platformed culture. By surveying current research on digital discourse, we will look at specific topics such as digital identity between performance and self-branding; communication over multiple social media platforms; cooperation versus incivility; private/public boundaries collapse; surveillance culture, and participatory culture, among others. To do so, we will analyze instant messaging, text messaging, blogging, photo/video sharing, social networking, and gaming and will engage with diverse types of communicators and language and culture groups. For graduate students, fulfills linguistics requirement for linguistics and ESP concentrations.
Average GPA: 2.87
Grade distribution records: 147 students across 6 terms.
Grade distribution
| Grade | Students | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| A | 63 | 42.9% |
| B | 35 | 23.8% |
| C | 17 | 11.6% |
| D | 13 | 8.8% |
| F | 13 | 8.8% |
| W | 6 | 4.1% |
Based on 147 student grade records across 6 terms and 2 professors.
Instructors
- Maria Blitvich 107 students, Average GPA 2.70
- Elizabeth Miller 40 students, Average GPA 3.27