[Linganth] lit on online discourse

Mon Jun 13 00:51:10 UTC 2016

Productive exchange and I thought I'd chime in!

Susan Herring's "Computer-mediated discourse analysis: An approach to
researching online behavior" is useful (addresses data selection, etc.) and
can be found on her website.

The Association of Internet Researchers has a helpful website, including a
statement on ethics of online research: http://aoir.org

Cynthia

Cynthia Gordon
Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics
Georgetown University

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 11:34 AM, Jo Anne Kleifgen <kleifgen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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*
>> *To make an appointment with me click here
>> <https://www.google.com/calendar/selfsched?sstoken=UUY2QVJkUUI3RDRBfGRlZmF1bHR8YmUzNTEwZTI0Nzk5MTJhMzA3NmE5MTBkYTBkMGIyNDA>*
>>
>> * <http://sidury.wordpress.com> <http://faceboo.com/TESLatUTSA>
>> <http://twitter.com/sidury> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/sidury>
>> <http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7302-2663>
>> <http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7302-2663>*
>>
>> 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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