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

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