New Course for Winter 2003
ED 737-013: Discourse and Multimedia Analysis
Instructor: Jay Lemke
Time: 1:00 - 4:00 pm
Day: Wed
Location: Multimedia classroom - SEB 2229
Limit = 25
Course Information Menu
NOTE: There is a Dollar Bill's Coursepak for this course, available at Ulrich's Bookstore. There are also two required books, which will be used in the second half of the course and should be at Ulrich's a few weeks after the start of the term:
Kress, G. & van Leeuwen, T. 1996. Reading images. London: Routledge.
Cotton, Bob & Richard Oliver. 1997. Understanding hypermedia 2.000. London: Phaidon.
Course description:
How to analyze classroom discourse, written materials, images, video and interactive software and websites using techniques from social linguistics and multimedia semiotics. Examples from science, mathematics, and medical education; newspaper editorials and political cartoons; curriculum materials, classroom video, and educational websites. Issues of advanced qualitative research methodology. Appropriate for all curriculum areas. Students are encouraged but not required to bring sample data from their own areas of interest.
First of a planned series of courses and workshops on analyzing verbal and multimedia data using a variety of techniques. Also appropriate for students in any department of the university who wish to study methods of analyzing verbal and multimedia data or multimedia design and evaluation.
This first course will introduce the basic concepts and techniques of discourse analysis using social-functional linguistic methods and their extension to visual and interactive media. Future courses will add additional discourse analysis techniques and consider in more depth issues of hypertext and multimedia interface, website, and game design.
Course Topics:
Analyzing text and discourse - - introduction to methods of discourse analysis using tools from functional grammar (actions, agency, relationships, speech acts, rhetorical stance, evaluations, cohesion, register and genre)
Visual analysis -- extension of the principles of discourse analysis to visual representations (images, diagrams, video, website design)
Multimedia analysis and design -- integration of speech, gesture, and action; graphics and text; dialogue and action in video
Applications and contexts -- classroom discourse, newspaper editorials, political cartoons, NASA websites, scientific and technical publications, mathematics and natural language, curriculum materials, advertising videos and print media; student research projects and data
Key Authors:
M. Halliday, R. Hasan, G. Kress, T. van Leeuwen, R. Barthes, C. Goodwin, P. Thibault, S. Wortham, L. Ravelli, J. Lemke, N. Hornberger, E. Ochs, and others. Additional reference will be made to the work of R. Arnheim, S. Eisenstein, E. Tufte, E. Aarseth, M. Foucault, M. Bakhtin and others.
The following online papers will give a good idea of the general approach of the course:
Travels in Hypermodality (2002)
Further examples and references can be found here.
More information on topics and readings will appear on this site in early December. If you are interested in the course, please contact jaylemke@umich.edu .
Instructor:
Jay Lemke is Professor in the School of Education and a new faculty member at UM (2002). He was formerly Executive Officer of the Ph.D. Program in Urban Education at the City University of New York Graduate Center, and he is currently Co-Editor of the international research journal Linguistics and Education.
Professor Lemke's doctorate is in theoretical physics from the University of Chicago and he maintains an interest in science and mathematics education as well as doing research on discourse linguistics, multimedia semiotics, and social theory. He has studied the role of language and multiple representational media in the communication of science in classrooms, the interaction of language and visual media in political cartoons and websites, and critical discourse theory in models of social, cultural, and institutional change.