Digital Textuality
Author(s):Red Globe Press
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29 December 2014
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16 September 2017
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Digital Textuality explores the ways in which the English language is used in new media technologies. This undergraduate textbook covers a range of digital text genres, including news sites, social media, collaborative...
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Digital Textuality explores the ways in which the English language is used in new media technologies. This undergraduate textbook covers a range of digital text genres, including news sites, social media, collaborative fiction, hypertext fiction and poetry. Using Hallidayan linguistics, along with other approaches, such as Discourse Analysis, Multimodal Semiotics and Text World Theory, this book reflects the latest language-based research in digital texts. Topics included in these chapters are digital literacy, identity, online communities, hybridity and superdiversity.
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Covers a range of digital text genres, including news sites, social media, collaborative fiction and poetry
Reflects latest research in digital texts
Activities and sample projects designed for students to work independently or in groups
Introduces features of digital texts and goes beyond, applying different approaches
1. Introduction to Digital Textuality
2. Learning and Digital Textuality
3. Social Networking Sites (SNSs)
4. Digital News
5. Digital Poetry
6. Fiction and Collaboration Online
7. Hypertext Fiction
8. Genre Hybrids and Superdiversity
Glossary.