Social media, fandom and language learning: A roundtable with Shannon Sauro and Steven L. Thorne

Authors

  • Dean Wang Universitat Internacional de Catalunya

Abstract

Last November, Dr. Shannon Sauro (Malmö University & Lund University) and Dr. Steven L. Thorne (Portland State University & University of Groningen) visited the UAB campus to give lectures on, respectively, ‘Fandom, Social Media and Learning’ and ‘Human development and semiotic remediation through mobile place-based gaming’. (...) Questions and responses are transcribed here.

Keywords

Interview, social media, semiotic remediation, gaming, fandom

Author Biography

Dean Wang, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya

Dean Wang is a PhD candidate at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, working in the area of Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL) in association with the research group GREIP: Grup de Recerca en Ensenyament i Interacció Plurilingüe. He is associate professor of English for Specific Purposes at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/jtl3.593

Published

2014-09-27

How to Cite

Wang, D. (2014). Social media, fandom and language learning: A roundtable with Shannon Sauro and Steven L. Thorne. Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & Literature, 7(3), 71–81. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/jtl3.593

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