Seminar information
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Teacher: Prof. Dr. Turgay Kurultay (Visiting Professor)
Seminar Description:
New media on the digital web imply changes in writing processes and reader-author interactions. Old power relations of the publishing landscape are also changing, opening up new ways of becoming public. Even though there is a lot of unease about social media today, a critical-constructive use of these media is all the more important. In this communicative field, new forms of expression and even text types are emerging, so that the boundaries between the fictional and the factual are becoming much more blurred. In various platforms, (text) complexes of a purely fictional nature are emerging, but also different types of texts with literary forms of expression. Multimedia (text, image, video, etc.) is also largely part of text type norms here.
In the seminar representative examples are examined and analyzed; and afterwards a project-like work is developed, which is the development of structural frameworks of a digital media offer and textual contents. As an example could be mentioned: a weblog for the representation of the German studies from the personal or group perspective of the students for the broader public. The project idea (or ideas) to be concretized and the division of work will be discussed and decided in the group of participants.
Recommended secondary literature:
Elisabeth Augustin: BlogLife: on coping with life events in weblogs. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2015.
Gerd Sebald, Marie-Kristin Döbler (eds.) (Digital) Media and Social Memories, 2018.
Claudia Fraas et al: Online Discourses. Theories and methods of transmedial online discourse research. Cologne: Halem, 2013.
Peter Hoeres, "Hierarchies in Swarm Intelligence. Mediating History on Wikipedia." In Thomas Wozniak et al. (eds.): Wikipedia und Geschichtswissenschaft. Berlin: de Gruyter 2015, 15-31.
Proof of Performance:
Course achievement:Contributions to discussions and participation in project work (according to division of work)
Examination: Participation in project work and homework (critical evaluation of project results)