Seminar 4 Cyberculture:

Academic Listening

and Note-taking

Agenda

Part 1: Introducing the topic Cyberculture

Part 2: Importance of academic listening and note-taking

Part 3: Practicing listening, note-taking, summarizing

Part 1: Introducing the topic Cyberculture

What is common in the pictures?

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What comes to your mind when you hear the word “cyberculture”?

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Cyberculture = Internet Culture

…interactions between technology and culture. … a set of technologies, material and intellectual practices, attitudes, modes of thought and values developed along the growth of cyberspace, a non-existing place where people from different places with different cultures, values of all sorts and habits coexist and communicate (Gómez-Diago, 2012).

Narrowing a broad topic down

1. What kinds of social media sites or online tools do you

use for communication?

2. What risks are involved with using social media?

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Part 2: The importance of academic listening and note-taking

What is going on?

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• Academic listening is a special kind of listening. It is listening in order to encounter, understand, learn, discuss, and remember new ideas. Academic listening involves listening and comprehending spoken texts in academic settings (Rost, 2019).

• Effective note taking helps you to remember information and aids your understanding of that information (Rost, 2019).

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• Have you taken notes?

• If “Yes”, how did you organize the information? If “No”, how would you organize the information?

• What is/are the main idea/ideas?

• What are supporting details?

One way to organize information in the notes

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Part 3: Practicing listening, note-taking, summarizing

What is Twitter?

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Before listening

Protecting Twitter users (sometimes from themselves)

1. What kind of stories or news do you think are spread by Twitter and other social

media users?

2. What do you think is meant by the term online abuse? How do some people use

social media to hurt others?

3. What do you think it means to protect Twitter users from themselves?

Avoiding frustration

• Try focusing on the topic: What do you already know about it? What do you think the speaker might say?

• When listening, don’t try to translate every word and don’t worry if you don’t understand everything.

• Get the general sense of the message from the words you do understand. Keep practicing.

• Pay attention to the pacing and pauses made by the speakers while listening to talks.

• Speeding may indicate short statements that may be interesting but aren’t part of the main message.

• Pauses may emphasize essential points of the talk.

After listening: Your reaction

• Have you ever considered before watching the talk that sites like Twitter are risky?

• What risks are you aware of?

Outline Note-taking Method Checkbox

+ / - No sentences

Main points (MPs) first, then details

Indentation (MPs farthest left, details indented)

Abbreviations (short phrases, abr. words, pictures)

Mark levels (A, B, C… a, b, c… I, II, III… 1, 2, 3, …

bullets, dashes, asterisks, etc.)

Two-sentence summary of the talk

Del Harvey talks about Twitter and how she ensures safety and security, balancing free and open communication on the social network with the need to protect users from online abuse. She argues that companies have the responsibility to keep every user safe, by imagining the worst and designing products to avoid it happening.

Seminar Review Checklist

I can … Yes No

…talk about Cyberculture using appropriate vocabulary related to

the topic.

…define academic listening and note-taking.

…take notes while lecture listening using the Outline method.

…identify main ideas and details while lecture listening.

…summarize lecture listening.

Reflection on the Seminar

• What activities in the seminar have been helpful for your learning?

• What do you think might be added or taken away from the seminar?

Homework

• Complete a homework task given in the handout.

• Copy a table from the handout into your note-book.

• Using information from the seminar rewrite your notes using the Outline method.

• In the right column paraphrase your notes.

• Bring the completed table to Seminar 7.

Reference list

Gómez-Diago (2012).Cyberspace and Cyberculture [PDF]. In Kosut, M. & Golson, J. Geoffrey (Eds). Encyclopedia of Gender in Media, 58-60. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284078559_Cyberspace_and_Cyberculture_pp58-60 [Accessed 16 September 2021].

Rost, M. (2019). Ten tips to accelerate academic listening. Pearson. Available from https://longmanhomeusa.com/blog/ten-tips-to-accelerate-academic-listening/#:~:text=Academic%20listening%20is%20a%20special,important%20part%20of%20language%20teaching [Accessed 15 September 2021].