Information about the seminar
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Teacher: Prof. Dr. Turgay Kurultay (Guest professor)
Seminar description:
New media in the digital network imply changes in writing processes and reader-author interactions. Old power relations in the publishing landscape are also changing, opening up new ways of becoming public. Even if there is a lot of unease about social media today, the critical and constructive use of these media is all the more important. New forms of expression and even text types are emerging in this communicative field, so that the boundaries between the fictional and the factual are becoming much more blurred. (Text) complexes of a purely fictional nature, but also different types of text with literary forms of expression, are emerging on various platforms. Multimedia (text, image, video, etc.) is also largely part of text type norms here.
In the seminar, representative examples will be examined and analyzed; and then a project-like work will be developed, which is the development of structural frameworks of a digital media offer and textual content. An example could be: a weblog for the presentation of German studies from the personal or group-dynamic perspective of students for the wider 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 the swarm intelligence. Communicating history on Wikipedia". In: Thomas Wozniak et al. (eds.): Wikipedia und Geschichtswissenschaft. Berlin: de Gruyter 2015, 15-31.
Proof of performance:
Coursework: Discussion contributions and participation in project work (according to work allocation)
Examination: Participation in project work and term paper (critical evaluation of project results)