[I-LanD Research Centre] "Débats sur le débat" Seminar Series - Closing session: Susan Herring (Indiana University, Bloomington) - "Is Generative AI the Future of Qualitative Discourse Analysis?" (May 23, 2025)

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Dear all,

You will find below the new invitation link to the Zoom meeting Débats sur le débat - Linguistics and AI - on Friday, May 23 at 5PM:

https://univ-lille-fr.zoom.us/j/94269421258?pwd=E68nPdIze4ZKKIhD2p2AXVJLic4M5j.1

Is Generative AI the Future of Qualitative Discourse Analysis?
Susan C. Herring
Indiana University Bloomington, USA

Generative AI is rapidly transforming how scholars teach and do research. In this presentation, I will report on experiments my research team has been conducting to explore whether, and if so, how well, generative AI is able to apply qualitative computer-mediated discourse analysis (CMDA) methods that are regularly assigned to students in a course I teach, given similar guidelines and data. The focus is on two phenomena: CMC (speech) acts and politeness. I will show where and how the AI fails in its analyses, as well as where it succeeds, including at what cost to the methods themselves. I aim to generate debate about the future of qualitative discourse analysis in the era of generative AI.

Bio:
Susan C. Herring is Professor of Information Science and Linguistics and Director of the Center for Computer-Mediated Communication at Indiana University, Bloomington. For the past 35 years she has been researching structural, pragmatic, interactional, and social phenomena in communication mediated by digital technologies. Her recent research has focused on multimodal CMC, including communication mediated by telepresence robots, graphical icons, and video. She is especially interested in discourse about, and uses of, digital face modification, including "deepfake" technology, A past editor of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, she currently edits the journal Language at Internet.

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Oggetto: [I-LanD Research Centre] "Débats sur le débat" Seminar Series - Closing session: Susan Herring (Indiana University, Bloomington) - "Is Generative AI the Future of Qualitative Discourse Analysis?" (May 23, 2025)

Dear all,

We are pleased to invite you to the closing session of the 2024-25 edition of the "Débats sur le débat" seminar series. The event will take place on Friday, 23 May 2025, at 5:00 p.m. (CET) and will feature a talk by:

Susan Herring (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Is Generative AI the Future of Qualitative Discourse Analysis?

The session will be moderated by Paola Pietrandrea (University of Lille, STL, IUF).

The seminar will be held online via Zoom (https://univ-lille-fr.zoom.us/j/97423951811?pwd=gFfM6zwf5WEhKX6KkjCYDnFP709d6y.1) and will also be streamed live on Facebook (https://facebook.com/olindinum).

We look forward to your participation and encourage you to share this invitation with anyone who might be interested.

Best regards,
Paola Pietrandrea, Giuditta Caliendo, and Caroline Bossant
on behalf of the Linguistic Observatory of Digital Discourse
(Observatoire LINguistique du DIscours NUMérique - OLiNDiNUM)
https://olindinum.huma-num.fr/

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Università di Napoli L'Orientale
Palazzo S. Maria Porta Coeli
Via Duomo, 219 - 80138 Naples
Room 1.23
ph. +39 081 6909861
website: https://i-land-researchcentre.eu/

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