EDUC 389b Paper proposals

EDUC 389b Paper proposals The improvisational performance of culture (Silverstein) The limits of awareness

QP

Which perspectives are more and less likely to lend themselves to ideologization? 

Discourse Analysis Across the Speech Event (Wortham & Reyes)

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Propose a meeting with Jonathan: 

  1. Feedback on first quarter paper

  2. Feedback on draft of paper

  3. 2nd year review committee

  4. Feedback on QP

  5. Research in Philadelphia

From the perspective of language producing social reality, I think Computer Science is interesting in two ways: we use programming as a metaphor for ‘natural language,’ and CS operationalizes and increasingly weaponizes many of the linguistic moves we have been talking about in this class. Computer Science positions itself as a highly abstract, decontextualized, and neutral field; I plan to investigate the semiotic ideologies with which we discuss and practice Computer Science, through an ethnography of computer science learners, paying particular attention to what they think they are doing when they do Computer Science and what they think Computer Science is for. This paper will be a conceptual framework and a methods section.

Jonathan’s challenge: what institutional processes can I focus on? A particular challenge I intend to take on is that I want this study to be legible to practitioners of Computer Science and CS Education. 

“These are the dialectics of indexicality”

—> Cambridge Analytica article. 

Can I use Jonathan’s “raciolinguistic perspective?”