5 credits
30.0 h
Q2
Teacher(s)
Catellani Andrea;
Language
French
Prerequisites
Knowledge about the basis of semiotic theories.
Main themes
- basic concepts of semiotics: sign, text, discourse, narrative.
- Verbal and visual on screen: basics and approaches.
- Hypertext, architext, device.
- Interaction and enunciation on-line.
- methodology of semiotic analysis: plastic, iconic, discourse, narrative, values, passions.
- examples of how to analyze web sites and on-line conversations.
Aims
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The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Content
This course aims at teaching students how to make a semiotic analysis of web sites in an autonomous way.
To do that, the course presents:
To do that, the course presents:
- basic notions and concepts of semiotics, in order to apply it to the digital world;
- specificities of screens experience and their social and anthropological implications;
- some considerations on some concepts and notions that are important to understand the digital world from a semiotic point of view (hypertext, architext, device);
- a semiotic approach to interactivity and interaction on-line;
- the components of a semiotic analysis grid for web sites, specifically from a comparative point of view.
- The course underlines the distinction between the strictly technical dimension of the web and its cultural and symbolic dimensions.
Teaching methods
Lecture, text reading, individual and collective projects.
Evaluation methods
Appraisal methods are exposed at the beginning of the course.
Other information
Course materials are presented and distributed at the beginning and during the course.
Faculty or entity
COMU
