This course, jointly organized by English Philology and Russian 
Language and Culture, takes a bicultural and contrastive look at 
current topics in digital media such as social networking, online 
news, netspeak, and memes; the working language of the course will be 
English. The course will offer new insights into the changing 
landscapes of computer-mediated communication and tools for the 
linguistic and discursive analysis of multicultural phenomena.

Coursework will comprise lectures, practical exercises and a final 
essay.

16 students will be selected to the course: 8 from the English degree programme and 8 from the Russian degree programme. If either quota is not filled students queueing in the other quota will be selected instead.