George Orwell and Twitter: Teaching English literature through social networking sites.
Abstract
The information and knowledge society in which we live currently has proven how pedagogy needs a profound connection with technology and virtuality. However, it is not the same to apply technology to pedagogy than transforming pedagogy through technology. The objective of this article is to propose a feminist affective pedagogy for teaching English as a Foreign Language in Higher Education. In order to do this, contemporary literature is defined as a transmedial tool. Using digital ethnography, I produce an auto-ethnographic reflection about students’ participation in a transmedial practice, more specifically the creation of a collective Twitter profile that translates contemporary novels into reflections about our society. Three lines of research are established. These are the establishment of contemporary literature as a social network, the implementation of affective critical pedagogy through literature and the class itself as a continuum between virtuality and space. It concludes with three main affirmations: 1. Teaching literature from collective reading enables transmedial practices. 2. Literature is a technological tool that generates critical affective capacity. 3. The class must be materialized as a safe space so that students share responsibilities with instructors for their own learning process.
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