[lg policy] Re: Ok put that down, it's time for an awesome survey on electronic gizmos and doowackeys at sociolinguistic events!

[Dave Sayers]

Hello conference-goers and conference-getters,

Today is a big day in the UK for demonstrating your preferences for doing things in 
other countries. That's right, it's time complete our sociolinguistic events survey! 
(And unlike other parochial polls that might be going on, people around the world are 
also invited to vote in this one.)

Exquisitely assembled according to the finest principles of social science research, 
under the auspices of the Sociolinguistic Events Calendar, this survey promises to 
lay bare the cold hard truth about audiences plugged into gizmos and gadgets: 
http://goo.gl/forms/BXNYNQLju7ogfwe03.

We've had 91 submissions so far. Hopefully we can get up to that magic number of 100 
so we can make fabulously spurious assertions about a representative sample of the 
big wide world of sociolinguistics.

Democratically yours,
Dave

--
Dr. Dave Sayers, ORCID no. 0000-0003-1124-7132
Senior Lecturer, Dept Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University | www.shu.ac.uk
Honorary Research Fellow, Cardiff University & WISERD | www.wiserd.ac.uk
dave.sayers at cantab.net | http://shu.academia.edu/DaveSayers



On 27/05/2016 16:30, Dave Sayers wrote:
> Hello fellow sociolinguists of varying flavours, shapes and sizes...
>
> It's that time of year again, conference season! That means it's time to put together
> some publicity for the Sociolinguistic Events Calendar, thinly veiled under the guise
> of a survey. This time, the team of calendar mods and I are focussing on something
> that often really splits the room: electronic gadgetry and online adventures during
> and after sociolinguistic events.
>
> Are you an infuriating Twitter addict who might get their damn iPhone smacked out of
> their hand any moment now? Are you a tiresome Luddite who doesn't know their Snapchat
> from their ChatRoulette? Take the survey and find out how you compare to your fellow
> esteemed peers and colleagues!
>
> http://goo.gl/forms/BXNYNQLju7ogfwe03
>
> And remember to head along to http://www.baal.org.uk/slxevents.html and subscribe to
> the Sociolinguistic Events Calendar, to enjoy the constant bewildering bombardment of
> all the simultaneous sociolinguistic events around the world that you can't possibly
> attend!
>
> Heart-emoticons and kiss-emojis from everyone at the Sociolinguistic Events Calendar
>
> P.S. In case this message hasn't been spammed around quite widely enough, please feel
> free to send it on to any other sociolinguistically minded folks!
>
> --
> Dr. Dave Sayers, ORCID no. 0000-0003-1124-7132
> Senior Lecturer, Dept Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University | www.shu.ac.uk
> Honorary Research Fellow, Cardiff University & WISERD | www.wiserd.ac.uk
> dave.sayers at cantab.net | http://shu.academia.edu/DaveSayers
>
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