COMM 6500 - [Language and Technology]

(crosslisted) INFO 6500

Spring. 3 credits.

Enrollment limited to: graduate standing or permission of instructor.

J. Hancock, staff.

Graduate-level readings and research supplementing COMM 4500/INFO 4500. Examines how new communication technologies affect the way we produce and understand language and modify interactions with one another. Focuses on the collaborative nature of language use and how Internet technologies affect the joint activities of speakers and listeners during the construction of meaning in conversation.