Lessons > The Literary in the Digital Everyday

Students learn how to conceptualize and analyze the kinds of ironic, humorous, and affiliative effects that arise through various kinds of direct and indirect quoting practices.

Texts, Genres & Practices

• Reading and participating in social network-mediated conversations, as found on Facebook
• Designing a Facebook post around a meme or quote
• Transforming a Facebook discussion into a reader’s theater performance

Cultural Knowledge & Mindset

• Conceptualizing and analyzing Facebook conversations as a particular kind of literacy practice
• Conceptualizing and analyzing heteroglossia and related effects (irony, humor, distancing) in relation to citational practices
• Expressing affiliation and experiencing feelings of inclusion/exclusion through allusions and references
• Expressing feelings / opinions through citation and sharing/reposting
• Creating effects of irony, humor, distancing, etc. through citational practices
• Experiencing and analyzing differences between online and offline discourse through the estrangement of genre transformation (from a FB post to a theater performance)

Language Use & Strategies

• Direct and indirect quoting in social networks
• Technological affordances of sharing and re-posting
• Verbal and non-verbal cues (especially in relation to effect of irony, humor, distancing, etc.)