Writing on the Web

• • Introduction: Writing and Technology
  • Informing and Framing your Writing
  • Language, Code and Expression
  • Re-wiring Hypertext: Writing for Web2.0
  • Authorship and Personal Interest Blogs
  • Orwell
  • Collaborative Writing
  • Comment Culture and The Attention Economy
  • Tweeting and Texting
  • Online Journalism
  • E-Literature, E-Fiction, E-Books
  • Publishing Online: The Open Access Movement

Equivalent subjects

You cannot enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:

• CUR-WEB206-Writing on the Web

Special requirements

No special requirements

Writing is a technology. Yet there is little discussion of writing on the web. From Facebook updates, to tweeting, blogging, comment culture, online journalism, and the truncation of language via texting, writing remains dominant in digitisation.

This subject offers you a practically oriented, conceptually-based approach by which you can become more effective in written publishing via digital and social media. It considers how writing can accommodate the re-structured reading that comes from scrolling down, rather than turning a page, together with the non-linear flow that results from hyperlinking. In this subject, students engage in practical online writing tasks, while also gaining a clear understanding of how writing has evolved through digital forms of publishing. Key ideas relating to relevance, credibility, authority and utility in writing for digital and social media are also discussed.

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• Exercise 1 (25%)
• Exercise 2 (35%)
• Research Essay (40%)

Current study term (30 Aug 20 to 29 Nov 20)