Words, wrds, wdz What is the digital environment doing to our language? Melanie Hughes AIS NSW

Words, wrds, wdzWhat is the

digital environment doing to our language?

Melanie HughesAIS NSW

What’s happening to our language?

• New forms of language • New text types• Blurring of medium,

purpose and audience• Neologisms

Neologisms..• Pop Culture– Google (noun, verb)– McMansion– #Fail

• Nictionary Nicki Minaj– barbs

• Advertisers– Upsize– Post-it– Tupperware

Meme

gone viral#hashtag

Cell Phone Novels

Twitter fiction/ Twitterature

Nano fiction/ Micro fiction

*7 word (or less) Title*a setting*one or more characters*conflict*resolution *no more than 55 words long

Hint fictionCURETriumphant, Dr Masuyo held the frail child. After years, he finally had a cure. Outside, the sun warmed Hiroshima. And then he saw the flash.

by: Kevin Hosey

Thx 4 ListninL8r peeps!

Melanie HughesEducation Consultant – Technology across the curriculumAIS NSW

Phone: 92992845Email: mhughes@aisnsw.edu.auTwitter: @melanieh

What impacts can you alert your students to?

Which do you see as being

most important?

Purpose, audience and content….

• Purpose • Content• Audience

• Imaginative• Persuasive • Informative

Social Media and Persuasive Text

Workplace Texts

Social meets workplaceblurry boundaries….