[Linganth] Call for SLA Social Media Manager

Mon Sep 5 14:42:16 UTC 2022

The Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) is looking to fill the position of Social Media Manager starting Jan 2023. The position—typically filled by graduate students or recent PhD—comes with a stipend of $2,000 per year. The tenure for this position is three years. The responsibilities are below. As the SLA Social Media Manager represents the official voice of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology, it requires someone with the ability to maintain an active, engaged presence online, in particular, on social media.

The tasks are as follows:
- work closely with the SLA digital director to manage the online presence of SLA
- send out SLA announcements and links to the SLA website on Facebook and Twitter
- tweet and post relevant items (including announcements of new journal publications, vetted news articles, related blogs, etc.)
- on Twitter, engage with users by following and promoting #linganth, retweeting relevant tweets, responding to direct messages
- on Facebook, respond to comments (when appropriate) and direct messages sent to the account
- assist in managing the SLA Blog. This includes helping to source for new writers and editing short-form articles for the blog

Qualifications:
- sustained (but not necessarily prominent) presence on Twitter and/or Facebook for at least two years
- some research experience with/about social media platforms (i.e. a conference paper or workshop)
- basic knowledge of WordPress preferred

To apply, send an e-mail with a CV to soclinganth at gmail.com

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Katherine Christoffersen

Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics . Department of Writing & Language Studies
Associate Director . B3 Institute
(956) 665-8102
https://katieoc.weebly.com
Corpus Bilingüe del Valle<http://utrgv.edu/cobiva>
B3 Institute<https://www.utrgv.edu/b3-institute/>
Brownsville • Edinburg • Harlingen

Recent Articles:

Linguistic terrorism in the Borderlands: Language ideologies in the narratives of young adults in the Rio Grande Valley<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19313152.2019.1623637?journalCode=hmrj20> (Christoffersen, 2019, Preprint available here<https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/wls_fac/15/>)

"Toda lengua es válida aquí en esta clase": Translanguaging pedagogy and critical language awareness in sociolinguistics courses on the U.S.-Mexico border<https://tabe.org/publicationshome/#s-9625dd32-e5d6-4262-bfa6-ca28175c798a> (Christoffersen & Regalado, 2021, Individual article available here<https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/wls_fac/62/>)

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