[Linganth] lit on online discourse

Fri Jun 10 15:34:57 UTC 2016

Colleagues,
Since people are sharing their own work with the group, I'm going to add
mine here.

A book I published in 2013, *Communicative Practices at Work: Multimodality
and Learning in a High-Tech Firm* is based on a multi-year investigation of
communicative practices in a circuit board manufacturing plant in the
Silicon Valley. The employees came from various ethnolinguistic
backgrounds, and multiple languages (Spanish, Vietnamese, Mandarin,
Cantonese and English as the lingua franca) were used on the assembly
floor. The workers were surrounded by an ecology of multimodal resources
that came into play as part of their communication.

Data sources were primarily workers' videorecorded interactions along with
various inscriptions (including documentation of their process of becoming
ISO certified and observations of the ISO quality control materials being
used and reshaped in practice). The research also entailed interviews of
members at all levels, including the president and other leaders but mostly
of front line workers.

In this workplace, there were programmers and engineers along with front
line workers and managers. So, this work examines a hybrid group, not a
"pure" SaaS (software as a service) company.

Sincerely,
Jo Anne Kleifgen

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 8:57 AM, Sidury Christiansen <chrimsid at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Karen,
>
> Check out Jacob Eisenstein work on Twitter
> <http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~jeisenst/> and other social media outlets.
> The work of Joel Bloch <http://llt.msu.edu/vol8num3/bloch/> may also be
> of interest. He analyzes writing in a listserv (or usernet).
> The journal Language at internet <http://www.languageatinternet.org/> also
> has very many good resources, as well as the Journal of Computer-mediated
> Communication
> <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1083-6101>.
> Susan Herring <http://ella.ils.indiana.edu/~herring/index.html>’s work
> can also be helpful, especially the article where she problematizes what
> can be considered a community in a digital space.
>
> One of my articles discusses data in online research (first one on the
> list)  and in the three others I present similar kind of data.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
>
> Christiansen, M. S. (2015). Appearances can be deceiving: Risks
> interpreting data in online ethnographic research. In M. Lengeling & I.
> Mora Pablo (eds.), *Perspectives on Qualitative Research*, (pp. 437-456).
> Guanajuato, Mexico: Universidad de Guanajuato Press. Link to full text
> here
> <http://www.academia.edu/19894294/Appearances_can_be_deceiving_Risks_interpreting_data_in_online_ethnographic_research>
> .
> Christiansen, M. S. (2016). “¡Hable Bien M”ijo o Gringo o Mx!’: language
> ideologies in the digital communication practices of transnational Mexican
> bilinguals. *International Journal of Bilingual Education and
> Bilingualism*, 1–12. http://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2016.1181603
> Christiansen, M. S. (2015a). “A ondi queras”: Ranchero identity
> construction by U.S. born Mexicans on Facebook. *Journal of
> Sociolinguistics*, *19*(5), 688–702. http://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12155
> Christiansen, M. S. (2015b). Mexicanness and Social Order in Digital
> Spaces: Contention Among Members of a Multigenerational Transnational
> Network. *Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences*, *37*(1), 3–22.
> http://doi.org/10.1177/0739986314565974
>
>
> - Sidury
>
> *M. Sidury Christiansen, PhD*
>
>
> *Assistant Professor Dept. of Bicultural-Bilingual StudiesThe University
> of Texas at San Antonio*
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>
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>
> On Jun 7, 2016, at 7:47 AM, Karen Pennesi <pennesi at uwo.ca> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone recommend literature analyzing discourse from public online
> texts such as comments on news articles, blogs, discussion forums etc.? I
> am trying to get a sense of whether there are criteria for selecting “good
> data”, how one justifies using this kind of data, how to deal with the
> problem of anonymity when attempting to describe the groups, “speech
> communities” etc. who produce the texts and the context for these
> discourses, how to compare this data to other kinds of spoken discourse,
> and how to represent this data on the page in publications.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Karen Pennesi, PhD.
> Associate Professor
> Department of Anthropology
> University of Western Ontario
> London, Ontario, Canada
>
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