DIGITAL TEXT READING AND WRITING MODELS

Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: GIUSEPPE PALAZZOLO

Expected Learning Outcomes

Students at the end of the course should achieve:

1) Knowledge and understanding: to know the changes that have taken place in reading and writing (also from a diachronic perspective), and therefore to understand the dynamics between text, author and reader in the digital age.

2) Applying knowledge and understanding: finding lexically and semantically relevant elements to understand, analyze and rewrite/re-mediate different textual typologies.

3) Making judgments: critically interpreting texts based on the data collected.

4) Communication skills: to be able to communicate the results of research and the methodological choices, highlighting the crucial aspects, using resources of the various textual genres, both in writing and in oral form.

5) Learning skills: encouraging the development of one's own strategies and models for reading, understanding, analyzing and writing texts.

Course Structure

Lectures, exercises and laboratory activities.

Attendance of Lessons

Compulsory attendance.

Detailed Course Content

A. Introduction (1 ECTS). From Gutenberg to the digital. The concept of author and authorship in the age of the world wide web. The death of the author, the electronic word and combinatorial literature. Digital humanities.

Textbook Information

A. Texts

- P. Italia, Editing Duemila. Per una filologia dei testi digitali, Roma, Salerno, 2020, pp. 7-40 (Il lettore Google; Autore, curatore, lettore).

- Digital humanities. Metodi, strumenti, saperi, a cura di F. Ciotti, Roma, Carocci, 2023, pp. 15-34 (Prefazione. Oltre il limite istituzionale, Introduzione. La galassia delle Digital Humanities).

Further texts and working materials will be provided to students through the platform Studium, for a total of 100 pp.

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.

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