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What is the digital environment doing to our language?
Words, wrds, wdz Melanie Hughes AIS NSW What is the digital environment doing to our language?
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What’s happening to our language?
New forms of language New text types Blurring of medium, purpose and audience Neologisms
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Neologisms.. Pop Culture Nictionary Nicki Minaj Advertisers
Google (noun, verb) McMansion #Fail Nictionary Nicki Minaj barbs Advertisers Upsize Post-it Tupperware
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gone viral #hashtag Meme
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Cell Phone Novels
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Twitter fiction/ Twitterature
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Nano fiction/ Micro fiction
*7 word (or less) Title *a setting *one or more characters *conflict *resolution *no more than 55 words long
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Hint fiction CURE Triumphant, 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
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Thx 4 Listnin L8r peeps! Melanie Hughes
Education Consultant – Technology across the curriculum AIS NSW Phone:
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What impacts can you alert your students to?
Which do you see as being most important?
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Purpose, audience and content….
Imaginative Persuasive Informative
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Social Media and Persuasive Text
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Workplace Texts
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Social meets workplace blurry boundaries….
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