Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
5 credits
30.0 h
Q1
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;
- some considerations on some concepts and notions that are important to understand the digital world from a semiotic point of view (in particular, the screen as a text, multimediality, interactivity, distinction between text and paratext);
- the components of a semiotic analysis grid for web sites, specifically from a comparative point of view.
Teaching methods
Lecture, text reading, exercice with the supervision of the lecturer, individual and collective projects.
Evaluation methods
2 point: presence in class. If the student comulates more than two absences, a written individual work is requested to obtain the 2 points.
18 points: production of a written report analyzing a website, done partly individually and partly in groups (the report produced by each group includes collective parts and individual parts). Part of the final grade is collective (5 points), another part is individual (13 points). Participation in group work is mandatory.
Second session: if all the students who form a working group must retake the exam, they must repeat the analysis and submit a new analysis report (which counts for 18 points); if only one or more members have a deficiency rating, they must represent only their individual part of the analysis, and therefore only their individual part of the group report (which counts for 13 points), and in this case the part of the rating for the collective part is retained. The points of the presence in the course are preserved, if they have been obtained; if the student who has to retake the exam has not obtained the two points of presence in the course, he must carry out additional individual work.
18 points: production of a written report analyzing a website, done partly individually and partly in groups (the report produced by each group includes collective parts and individual parts). Part of the final grade is collective (5 points), another part is individual (13 points). Participation in group work is mandatory.
Second session: if all the students who form a working group must retake the exam, they must repeat the analysis and submit a new analysis report (which counts for 18 points); if only one or more members have a deficiency rating, they must represent only their individual part of the analysis, and therefore only their individual part of the group report (which counts for 13 points), and in this case the part of the rating for the collective part is retained. The points of the presence in the course are preserved, if they have been obtained; if the student who has to retake the exam has not obtained the two points of presence in the course, he must carry out additional individual work.
Other information
Course materials are presented and distributed at the beginning and during the course, on the Student Corner page of the course.
Bibliography
"Sémiotique du récit", N. Everaert-Desmedt, Deboeck, 2007.
"Le webdesign. Sociale expérience des interfaces web", N. Pignier, B. Drouillat, Hermès-Lavoisier, 2008.
"Sémiotique mode d'emploi", J.-J. Boutaud et K. Berthelot-Guiet, Le bord de l'eau, 2014.
"Introduction à l'analyse de l'image", M. Joly, 3ème éd. 2015, Armand Colin.
"Le webdesign. Sociale expérience des interfaces web", N. Pignier, B. Drouillat, Hermès-Lavoisier, 2008.
"Sémiotique mode d'emploi", J.-J. Boutaud et K. Berthelot-Guiet, Le bord de l'eau, 2014.
"Introduction à l'analyse de l'image", M. Joly, 3ème éd. 2015, Armand Colin.
Teaching materials
- Supports de cours et lectures mis à disposition sur Student corner
Faculty or entity
COMU
