<div dir="ltr">Please see below for a panel co-organized by Rachel George and myself. We already have several panelists and are seeking one or two more. Please be in touch by replying to this email, or at either <a href="mailto:flamenbaum@csus.edu">flamenbaum@csus.edu</a> or <a href="mailto:georgerl@whitman.org">georgerl@whitman.org</a>.<div><br></div><div>Cheers, all!</div><div>r.</div><div><br></div><div><font size="1" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Rachel Flamenbaum, PhD<br><font color="#666666">Assistant Professor </font></font><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:x-small"><font color="#666666">Department of Anthropology </font></span><div><font size="1" color="#666666">California State University Sacramento</font></div></div><br><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-indent:0.5in;background:white;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Following on the productive SLA session approaching silence as social action in digitally-mediated contexts, this panel builds on feedback, ongoing research, and additional panelist contributions to further engage with the ways in which situated silences taken on new and different meanings in screen-based communication.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-indent:0.5in;background:white;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Taking a cue from classic situated approaches to silence in face-to-face contexts (Basso 1970, Zimmerman & West 1975, Bauman 1983, Sattel 1983, Sorrels 1983, Tannen & Saville-Troike 1985, Gal 1991, DeFrancisco 1991), as well as more recent engagements with the pragmatics of silence in conversation (c.f. Ephratt 2008, Frimpong 2010, Benus et al 2011, Heydon 2011, Haddix 2012, Hoey 2017), we aim to grapple with such questions as: how is silence produced, experienced, and understood in mediated spaces? How are communicative gaps felt and managed in digital, real-time interaction? When is non-participation in online circulating discourses made relevant as silence? Building on the </span><a href="http://linguisticanthropology.org/blog/2015/04/14/an-news-silent-meditation-speech-power-and-social-justice-by-the-committee-on-language-social-justice/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)">SLA Social Justice Task Force's 2015 blog post</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> reflecting on the problematics of online (non)responses to social injustice, how are the various possible political and personal meanings of silence—suppression, complicity, power, judgement, avoidance, comfort, and so on—reconfigured in mediated interaction? <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background:white;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <span>          <span> </span></span>In carrying the classic work of scholars of silence-in-language into screen-based settings, we seek panelists addressing the relevance of non-participation vis-à-vis viral hashtags on social media; the place of silence in autocratic language; the role of new media editors in silencing or amplifying voices; ideological framings of silence across communicative modes; and the pragmatics of managing silence in real-time digitally-mediated interaction.</span></p><br></div></div></div>