Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2018

ClickUP: A linguistic ethnography of the University of Pretoria online platform

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Vorster and Quinn (2017) emphasise that a decolonial turn is also an ontological turn, that education is as much about who we are, as it is about what we know. In this context then, one must complexify an unproblematic understanding of ICT resources that regards efficiency and hours online. As models such as ‘activity theory’ (Karasavvidis 2009) are quick to point out, an understanding of the online is difficult to access from data gleaned from log files. So, it is to a different kind of research into meaning and lived experience that we turn in this paper. Through a bifocal lens on the artifacts of the semiotic environment, and the stories that people tell within, and about, this environment, we aim to explore ClickUP from the perspective of geosemiotic theory (Scollon and Scollon 2003) and from ‘small stories’ (De Fina and Georgakopoulou 2008a and 2008b). This then is narrative research, but narrative research that looks closely at the doing being of participants and their shifting footings and positionings. It can be distinguished from much of the literature on online teaching and learning, not least because its aim is not an evaluation of a system, but an understanding of the subjectivities of those who use it. Concerned with environment, space, artifact and narrative, the broad characterisation of this research is a linguistic ethnography in the sense of understanding the macro from the micro of participant interaction (Rampton, Maybin and Roberts 2014).

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hal-05245631 , version 1 (08-09-2025)

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William Kelleher. ClickUP: A linguistic ethnography of the University of Pretoria online platform. Witwatersrand University Hub for Multilingual Education and Literacies HuMEL, Witwatersrand University Department of Education, Aug 2018, Johannesburg, South Africa. ⟨hal-05245631⟩
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