Gender and Genre
in Computer-Mediated Communication

Part II

Objective

Construct continuities

Description

This course is split between theory and methodology. We begin with a series of lectures on discourse analysis and the circulation of the products of knowledge construction. Then, we move to pragmatic considerations raised in the planning of field work. Our aim is to develop self-reflexive techniques for exploring the venues and interactions of Computer-Mediated Communication.

Lectures

Week 1 M. Foucault
- Discursive fellowship
Week 2 R. Jakobson
- Phatic Function
Week 3 D. Spender
- Man made language
Week 4 B. Ponse
- consistency principle in gender role and sexual orientation
Week 5 J. Bruner
- going meta; Acts of Meaning
Week 6 J. Clifford
- the ins and outs of collections
Week 7 How to act?
From lurking to impersonnating : degrees of participant observation
Week 8 Who to observe?
Informant reliability & stability
Week 9 What to record?
Phenomena versus their markings
Week 10 How to?
Data capture - file organization
Week 11 Shaping the material
Reporting - sense of audience
Week 12 Re-evaluting the process
Factors that shape inquiries

Assignments

30% HTML Ring (group work)
10% Journal
40% Research Report
20% Model of a Modular Intevention (group work)

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