Semiotic and Intersemiotic Approaches in Digital Humanities
| Title | Σημειωτικές και διασημειωτικές προσεγγίσεις στις Ψηφιακές Ανθρωπιστικές Επιστήμες / Semiotic and Intersemiotic Approaches in Digital Humanities |
| Code | ΕΜ-16 |
| Interdepartmental Programme | Semiotics, Culture and Communication |
| Collaborating Schools | French Language and Literature Italian Language and Literature Journalism and Mass Communications Architecture |
| Cycle / Level | 2nd / Postgraduate |
| Teaching Period | Winter/Spring |
| Common | No |
| Status | Active |
| Course ID | 600014999 |
Programme of Study: Semiotics, Culture and Communication
Registered students: 0
| Orientation | Attendance Type | Semester | Year | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KORMOS | Elective Courses | Winter/Spring | - | 7.5 |
| Academic Year | 2018 – 2019 |
| Class Period | Spring |
| Faculty Instructors | |
| Weekly Hours | 3 |
| Total Hours | 39 |
| Class ID | 600141773
|
Course Type 2011-2015
Specific Foundation / Core
Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
Digital Course Content
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
- Greek (Instruction, Examination)
Prerequisites
Required Courses
- ΥΜ-1 Semiotic and Cultural Theories
General Prerequisites
Students must be acquainted with the theory of semiotics and culture and must have computer skills.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students should have:
1.a basic knowledge concerning Digital Humanities (DH)
2.dealt with questions of semiotic and intersemiotic research in DH
3.dealt with concrete aspects of DH from a semiotic and intersemiotic point of view
4.basic skills for applying the acquired knowledge to practices in different fields
General Competences
- Apply knowledge in practice
- Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
- Make decisions
- Work autonomously
- Work in teams
- Work in an interdisciplinary team
- Generate new research ideas
- Design and manage projects
- Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
- Be critical and self-critical
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
The course aims to introduce the students to the semiotic and intersemiotic-polysemiotic dimensions of the contemporary digital culture, the digital semiosphere and the methods of its examination, as developed and used by the Digital Humanities. We shall first present briefly the Digital Humanities, with concrete reference to their methods and tools. We will focus mostly on Multimodal Digital Humanities, but also on Cybersemiotics and Interactive Digital Semiotics.
Then, we shall present case studies, as:
1. Digital audiovisual archives
2. Electronic literature
3. Modeling as structure, representation and creation of thought schemes
4. Corpora and their semiotic aspects
5. Text encoding and the preservation of their semiotic complexity
The aspiration of this combination of theory and practical applications is to provide the students with interpretative tools with which they will be able to approach and interpret in a transdisciplinary manner complex digital semiotic performances.
Keywords
Digital Humanities, digital semiosphere, semiotic approaches, intersemiotic and multiseiotic approches
Educational Material Types
- Notes
- Slide presentations
- Multimedia
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Course Teaching
- Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Description
The course is based on digital tools and thus presupposes the use of specific applications in computer lab. AUTh elearning platform will be used.
Course Organization
| Activities | Workload | ECTS | Individual | Teamwork | Erasmus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | 33 | ✓ | |||
| Reading Assigment | 21 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Project | 18 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Total | 72 |
Student Assessment
Description
Students will work on two projects and will present them in class.
Student Assessment methods
- Written Assignment (Formative, Summative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
Δημητρούλια, Ξ., Τικτοπούλου, Α., 2015. Ψηφιακές λογοτεχνικές σπουδές. [ηλεκτρ. βιβλ.] Αθήνα:Σύνδεσμος Ελληνικών Ακαδημαϊκών Βιβλιοθηκών. Διαθέσιμο στο: http://hdl.handle.net/11419/5827 (59303588)
Λαγόπουλος, Α., Boklund-Λαγοπούλου Κ., Θεωρία Σημειωτικής. Αθήνα: Πατάκης (59370152)
Additional bibliography for study
Berry, D. M. (Ed.) (2012). Understanding digital humanities. Hampshire: Palgrave.
De Souza, C. (2005). The Semiotic Engineering of Human-Computer Interaction. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
Halliday, M. A. K. (1978). Language as Social Semiotic: The Social Interpretation of Language and Meaning. London: Edward Arnold.
Jewitt, C. (Ed.) (2014). The Routledge handbook of multimodal analysis (2nd ed.) London: Routledge.
Lemke, J. L. (2009). Multimodal Genres and Transmedia Traversals: Social Semiotics and the Political Economy of the sign. Semiotica, 177(1-4), 1-27.
Lotman, Y. (1984/2005). On the Semiosphere. Sign System Studies, 11(1), 201-229.
Lotman, Y. & Uspensky, B. (1978). On the Semiotic Mechanism of Culture. New Literary History, 9(2), 211-232.
Manovich, L. (2012). How to compare one million images? In Understanding digital humanities, ed. D. Berry (pp. 249–278). London: Macmillan.
McPherson, T. (2009). Introduction: Media studies and the digital humanities. Cinema Journal , 48 (2), 119–123.
O’Halloran K. (2015) Multimodal Digital Humanities. In: Trifonas P. (eds) International Handbook of Semiotics (pp. 383–409). Dordrecht: Springer.
O’Halloran, K. L. (2011). Multimodal discourse analysis. In Companion to discourse analysis, eds. K. Hyland & B. Paltridge (pp. 120–137). London: Continuum.
O’Halloran, K. L., & Lim, F. V. (2014). Systemic functional multimodal discourse analysis. In Texts, images and interactions: A reader in multimodality, eds. S. Norris, and C. Maier (pp. 137–154). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
O’Halloran, K. L., Chua, A. & Podlasov A. (2014). The role of images in social media analytics: A multimodal digital humanities approach. In Visual communication, ed. D. Machin (pp. 565–588). Berlin: Gruyter.
O’Halloran, K. L., Podlasov, A., Chua, A. & Marissa, K. L. E. (2012). Interactive software for multimodal analysis. Visual Communication: Special Issue Multimodal Methodologies , 11 (3), 352–370.
O’Halloran, K. L., Marissa K. L. E., A. Podlasov, and S. Tan (2013). Multimodal digital semiotics: The interaction of language with other resources. Text and Talk: Special Edition for Michael Halliday (edited by Geoff Thompson) 33 (4–5): 665–690.
O’Halloran, K. L., Marissa K. L. E. & Tan, S. (2014). Multimodal analytics: Software and visualization techniques for analyzing and interpreting multimodal data. In The Routledge handbook of multimodal analysis, ed. C. Jewitt. 2nd ed. (pp. 386–396). London: Routledge.
O’Halloran, K. L., Tan, S. & Marissa, K. L. E. (2015). Multimodal semiosis and semiotics. In The Bloomsbury companion to M.A.K. Halliday, ed. J. Webster (pp. 386–411). London: Bloomsbury.
O’Halloran, K. L., Tan, S., Smith, B. A., & Podlasov, A. (2010). Challenges in Designing Digital Interfaces for the Study of Multimodal Phenomena. Information Design Journal, 18(1), 2-12.
Rohlfing, K et al. (2006). Comparison of multimodal annotation tools—workshop report. Online-Zeitschrift zur Verbalen Interaktion, 7, 99–123.
Svensson, P. (2010). The landscape of digital humanities. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 4(1). (http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/4/1/000080/000080.html).
Last Update
20-08-2019
