LING 380NDigital Communication

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What is digital communication and how can we study the way that it affects human social interactions? The word "digital" has come to refer to computer-mediated activities. In recent years, those who study human social and linguistic behavior have come to include the study of the use of computer technology in both everyday and extreme forms of human interaction. In this course, we will read multiple digital ethnographies and engage in linguistic and anthropological theories of "digital media". Students will design their own digital research project that they will write about and present to the class.