Session 4: 1st February Room 822
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- This session will be concerned with a number of issues that have arisen or been touched upon in previous sessions. In particular, it will address, through the introduction of different approaches to literacy, a number of oppositions: competence/performance; coding/decoding' coding-decoding/comprehension-meaning; authoring/sudiencing; speech/writing; etc.
Objectives
- Explore literacy in terms of emphasis on competence/performance.
- Consider alternative interpretations of 'literacy'.
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- Essential Preliminary Reading
- Essential Preliminary Reading
- Chung, S-y. (2002). The Construction of Human Subjectivity in Blade Runner.
- Dowling, P.C. (2004). ‘Language, Discourse, Literacy: Stability, territory and transformation’. Culture and Learning: Access and Opportunity in the Curriculum. Mark Olssen (Ed.) Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing. (pdf file)
- Ryan, M-L. (1999). Introduction. Cyberspace, Textuality: Computer technology and literary theory. M-L. Ryan. Bloomington, Indiana University Press.
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- Additional Reading
- Additional Reading
- Chung, S-y. (2002). A Study of Literary Adaptation: Film reviewing and the construction of cultural value.
- Dowling, P.C. Mustard, Monuments and Media: A pastiche.
- Hayles, N. K. (1999). How We Became Posthuman: Virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature and informatics. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
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- Coursework Title
- Coursework Title
- Explore a specific concept or issue through engagement with a film or films relating to digital technologies and consider the implications for literacy education that arise out of your performance.