Post on 20-Jan-2016
English 2.0: from mass communication to mass collaboration
Katta, 02.02.2011 andreas.lund@uv.uio.no
What happens when English goes online?
What can we do with English?
How can we prepare for a world where communication is (mostly?) in English and (mostly?) online?
New questions:
Trends
Norway?
Global English
- An international resource (Graddol, 1997, 2005)
– Variants, 'New Englishes' (Crystal, 1997)
– Literature in English – Universally
comprehensible dialect (”light”)
Joseph LoBianco:
Global English has no native speaker!
The first place-unspecific language!
Languages online
•Spelling: email, etrade, BiCaps (PeaceNet, HotDog, DreamWeaver), warez, gamez, tunez, kool, c%l, phreak, fone, it wuz lotsa lafs... •Vocabulary: netizen, the digiterati, newbie, webliography, webcam, webzine, cyberian, chatterbot, dotcom, geekification... •Structural elements: the e-turn, the link, wiki features…•Genres: email, asynchronous discussion list, synchronous chat, multilogues, MOOing [say/do/emote], blogs, wikis, VLEs…
Netlish
Englishes (Netlish) and Identity
Conferencing Topic: Relationships
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FROM: Elizabeth (01/23/01 2:49 AM GMT -06:00)SUBJECT: Relationships[Reply | Send a personal message to Elizabeth]
Harald: I share your opinions, but what I also mean, and what I think Tom meant is that the better you know a person, the more it COULD hurt (it doesn't HAVE TO hurt...) When you know a person THAT well, you know that persons thoughts and even feelings, and it's sometimes easy to say or do something hurtful...But I agree 100% when you say that it's great and SO valuable to have a friend THAT close...:)
Englishes (Netlish) and conventions
SMS • R D PRTY L8R?
• d:*0 WUCIWUG #:0 VTE LBR 2MORO (2001)William Hague
Tony Blair
Provocation or Invitation?
New practises• Writing modelling (wp, dictionary, thesaurus)• Searching (”googling”)• Presenting (PowerPoint)• Communicating 1 1 (email)• Communicating 1 many (asynchronous discussion,
blogs)• Communicating many many (synchronous chat,
asynchronous LMS, wiki, GoogleDocs, GoogleWaves)• Multimodal texts• Sound, podcasting• Video, YouTube etc• Web 2.0 ”prosumers”• VLEs (2nd Life) experiencing and acting through avatars• What is literacy in the knowledge society? • ”READING THE WORLD THROUGH ENGLISH”
InfoNation• http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/infonation3/menu/advanced.asp
• Design a task that combines competence in text, statistics, and graphics!
Screenshot of InfoNation showing six countries with a comparison of CO2 emissions and Gross national Product per capita.
Speech communities
• ”Grammar and lexicon safari”(sett uttrykk mellom ”...” i Google
• (Halsbrekkende?) oversettelser BabelFish, Langenberg, Google
• Kaldprat og “hot topics”: BOTs • Hypotesetesting: InfoNation
Chatterbots: http://www.botspot.com/pages/chatbots.html
Interlocutors
Mass collaboration
• Linux (” Linus Torvalds with the assistance of developers around the world”)
• Wikipedia (10m articles, 230+ languages, social surplus of 100m working hours)
• takingITglobal ("TakingITGlobal.org is the social network that connects you to the global issues that affect us all")
• InnoCentive (” open innovation…an internal web-based collaborative community for problem solvers”)
• CAMBIA (community of researchers and farmers, biology&ecology) • IDEO: 3000+ products; 40+ industries. “Bright ideas for dark times”.
“The space remembers!”• Open Courseware Consortium “Share your university’s courses”. • Academia.edu Who is researching what (FB+Twitter)• MySpace, YouTube, Skype, Flickr, Diigo…
Wiki• Anyone can add, change
and delete• Multivoiced• Flat, open structure, built
from within• Thematic, atemporal• ”Empty spaces”• Interdependence,
reciprocity, trust• Meta functions
(discussion, history, roll-backs, stats…)
http://www.wikispaces.com/
3. praksiser
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Learners’ voices:• I like this because it is a win/win situation. To help
others and get help back is nice. Co-operating is very important in our daily lives and our future jobs!
• I like this because we so easily can compare and share information on what we know and what we do not know about the American way of living
• We never worked alone, and many helped me with my work
• It doesn’t matter if it is yours or others. This way it is possible for people to argue and discuss
• Because then I don’t have to be afraid of making a mistake ‘cause there will always be someone there to clear it up!
• Someone can change what you have written, even when you know what you have written is correct
• My texts got deleted• You socialize… in a weird way
May: “(…) I lost the learners (….) it was difficult to trace, for me as a teacher, who had contributed with what, and I felt that I lost the learners, I did not know where to go in order to guide them (…) because in general there is no extensive space for a teacher (…) it becomes a separate world (…) they [learners] tend to disappear into their separate worlds and it becomes difficult for me to guide them and maintain my job as a knowledge provider. (…) I don’t know what is the end product, what I am supposed to assess at the end”
Teacher’s concerns
A vertical line represents a weekly assignment.
A vertical line represents a weekly assignment.
“Swim lanes” for each student in the class. (Names of students are removed).
“Swim lanes” for each student in the class. (Names of students are removed).
Blue lines represent someone writing a comment on some wiki page.
Blue lines represent someone writing a comment on some wiki page.
The activity map (”Swim Lanes”)(compressed timeline)
”Conversation – the driver of group genius” (R. Keith Sawyer, 2007)