Duration
20h SEM
Number of credits
| Master in linguistics (120 ECTS) | 10 crédits |
Lecturer
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
All year long, with partial in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
In relation to the Marie Curie research project 'IMACTIS - Fostering Critical Identities Through Social Media Archival Images', this seminar module is dedicated in 2021/2022 to the study of the new competences of images in the digital age. It will focus on the analytical powers of visualizing massive corpora of images, analyze new identity narrations on social networks, and examine institutional, artistic, and amateur operations on visual archives.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
This seminar develops a reflection on the new competences of images faced with the digital revolution. It will examine how we can use the resources of images to analyze other images, including computational visualizations, how to analyze visual productions on social networks in relation to new actors (including influencers) and new genres (selfies, direct streaming, identity images); how to analyze operations on visual archives in different semiotic situations (institutional, amateur, artistic).
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Competence in French language is essential for an appreciation of the complexities of French discourse.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
At the practical level, this module provides for three types of sessions:
- Reading and collective discussion of scientific articles in the field of Digital Humanities.
- participation in the international seminar, "IMACTIS - Images today: archives, identities and algorithms". These meetings will be an opportunity to follow the most recent reflections on digital images by renowned researchers in semiotics, visual and media studies.
- classical sessions with case studies
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Active seminar. Classe attendance is mandatory.
Recommended or required readings
Recommended readings
(They will be discussed in seminar)
Provisional Bibliography
- Dondero, M.G. « Pour une synergie entre la sémiotique et la Computer Vision. La généalogie des formes visuelles à partir de Focillon et Warburg, La sémiotique et ses horizons (A. Biglari org.), L'Harmattan, coll. « Du sens », à paraître, 2021.
- Dondero, M. G. " Visual semiotics and automatic analysis of images from the Cultural Analytics Lab: how can quantitative and qualitative analysis be combined? ", 2019, Semiotica 230, 121-142, https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2018-0104.
- D'Armenio, E., « The Rhetorical Dimension of Images : Identity Building and Management on Social Networks », Semiotica, à paraître, 2021.
- D'Armenio, E., « Archives nume´riques et langages audiovisuels. Une épistémologie des formats techniques », Signata - Annales des Se´miotiques, 2021, 12, https://doi.org/10.4000/signata.3025
- D'Armenio E. et Dondero M.G., « La photographie nume´rique a` l'e´poque des re´seaux sociaux : pour une approche quali-quantitative », Les sociabilite´s nume´riques, Ablali, D. e Bertin E. (eds.), Academia-L'Harmattan, Louvain-La-Neuve, 2020, pp. 59-79.
Written work / report
Additional information:
The examination will consist of the analysis of a case chosen in relation to the themes presented and the tools articulated during the sessions.
Criteria are as follows :
- theoretical interest of the topic
- analytic skills
- formal care
- participation during the seminar.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Students interested by the seminar are invited to contact the teachers by mail (mariagiulia.dondero@uliege.beenzo.darmenio@uliege.be) before October 5th.
Contacts
Centre de Sémiotique et Rhétorique
3 place Cockerill B-4000 Liège
4e étage
Maria Giulia Dondero, directrice de recherches du FNRS/ULiège
mariagiulia.dondero@uliege.be
Enzo D'Armenio, boursier de post-doctorat Marie Curie/ULiège
enzo.darmenio@uliege.be