31.2924, Calls: Pragmatics/Switzerland

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-2924. Mon Sep 28 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.2924, Calls: Pragmatics/Switzerland

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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 14:58:45
From: Thomas Messerli [thomas.messerli at unibas.ch]
Subject: Commenting while watching: Synchronous and pseudo-synchronous text-based engagement with and about audiovisual artefacts

 
Full Title: Commenting while watching: Synchronous and pseudo-synchronous text-based engagement with and about audiovisual artefacts 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Thomas Messerli
Meeting Email: thomas.messerli at unibas.ch

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

Our panel explores text-based communication that accompanies video-streams.
Affordances that allow such communication exist for users of live-streaming
systems such as Youtube Live, Twitch or Periscope, but also on platforms that
focus on the delayed distribution of professionally produced fictional films
and television series, such as Bilibili.com or Viki.com.

Text-based commenting tied to video has first started on a separate, second
screen (e.g. chatrooms or live-tweeting), and has then also moved to the same
screen, where it typically takes place in a separate window (e.g. Youtube
Live). There are also chat systems like danmu/danmaku ot timed comments on
viki.com that synchronise viewer comments not with real time, but with the
time of the videostream, thus creating an illusion of a communal experience
among spatially and temporally distant viewers.

While there is abundant linguistic pragmatic research on many text-based
CMC-practices, studies on digital communication oriented towards television
broadcasts and videostreams have been sporadic so far. The extant literature
consists mostly of case studies from different disciplines, which explore such
aspects as motivations for contributing comments as well as for viewing
socially enriched content; functions of comments for the viewing experience
and for the viewing community; consequences of the co-presence of the video as
primary and the chat as secondary communication channel, including aesthetic,
but also psychological effects; the relationship between the streamed video
and the time-aligned written comments. The case studies are typically limited
to one particular platform or system (e.g. Twitter, Danmaku, Viki) or in some
cases compare several similar sites (e.g. Periscope and Meerkat; Twitch and
Youtube Live). What is missing then, is a consolidated effort to look beyond
the specifics of individual chat systems and move towards more general
insights into text-based videostream-oriented CMC practices.

With this panel, we want to bring together research about different chat
systems, including those that have so far predominantly been in use in an
Asian context and thus outside of the Western mainstream. Chat systems like
danmaku/danmu may for the time being be largely limited to China and Japan,
but the ongoing globalization of regional culture of which Japanese anime
fan-culture and the Korean Wave are good examples, means that similar
practices, e.g. timed comments on Viki, have already found new audiences also
outside of Asia.


Second Call for Papers: 

While we invite all researchers working on pragmatic aspects of timed or live
commenting to contribute to our panel, we are particularly interested in the
following topics:
 - community building in timed/live comments
 - construction of individual and group identities in comments
 - engagement with specific aspects of the broadcast/stream (e.g. production,
acting, content)
 - negotiating engagement with the artefact and engagement with the community
 - speech acts/conversational moves performed in comments
 - expressing emotive stance
 - intertextual references in comments
 - sequential organization of comments (turn-taking)

Abstracts of 250-500 words need to be submitted by October 25, 2020 via the
IPrA submission system at https://ipra2021.exordo.com/.
Select the panel ''Commenting while watching: Synchronous and
pseudo-synchronous text-based engagement with and about audiovisual
artefacts''

For more information on abstract submission, see
https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP or get in touch with us directly.

Panel organisers:
Thomas C. Messerli (Department of Languages and Literatures, University of
Basel)
Miriam A. Locher (Department of Languages and Literatures, University of
Basel)




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