27.3246, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics/UK

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Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 13:33:15
From: Sage Graham [sgraham2 at memphis.edu]
Subject: Digital Identities, Conflict, and (Im)politeness

 
Full Title: Digital Identities, Conflict, and (Im)politeness 

Date: 16-Jul-2017 - 21-Jul-2017
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Sage Graham
Meeting Email: sgraham2 at memphis.edu
Web Site: http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE15&n=1516 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2016 

Meeting Description:

Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in research examining the ways that
various media platforms have been used to promote negative behaviours and
agendas (see among others Hardaker & McGlashan, 2016).  In many cases, it is
argued, the unique features of digital platforms allow (and perhaps even
promote) new manifestations of (im)politeness and conflict.  This panel will
focus on bringing together the ways that: 1) (im)politeness is manifested in a
variety of digital platforms and, 2) how individuals use the capabilities (and
limitations) of digital media to construct and negotiate identities through
digitally-produced (im)politeness.

Building on early linguistic research on CMC that began in the 1980s,
researchers have continued to examine the complex ways that people have formed
communities and identities in online contexts even as media have continued to
morph and change, exploring questions such as how people form insider &
outsider groups (Graham, 2015; Klein & Bös, 2015), what types of identities
they claim (Gallagher & Savage, 2015; Haugh, et al., 2015), to what extent
anonymity affects communicative practice (boyd & Hargittai, 2010; Herring,
S.C. & Stoerger, 2014; Marwick & boyd, 2014), and even whether CMC is
fundamentally different from face-to-face communication at all (Benwell &
Stokoe, 2006; Locher, Bolander & Höhn, 2015).  As digital communication
continues to expand and increase through ever-changing and newly-emerging
modalities, a greater understanding of the ways we formulate relationships and
communities in the interwoven digital world is critical.  Since new modalities
and communicative platforms are emerging daily, communicative practice must
constantly change and shift to ensure that subtleties of meaning are not lost
and complexly interwoven messages conveyed through increasingly multimodal
interactions are comprehended. 

This panel will take a post-modernist approach to (im)politeness research,
building on theories developed since Brown & Levinson's (1978/1987) work in
examining the intersection between digital platforms and manifestations of
(im)politeness (broadly conceived, including conflict).   Papers might address
a wide array of topics, including how factors such as longevity (i.e.
permanence of digital content once it is created) and anonymity affect the
interpretation and practice of (im)politeness, how particular environments
(e.g. online gaming) merge multimodal platforms in navigating and negotiating
(im)polite/(in)appropriate behavior, how newcomers are socialized into the
norms of (im)politeness within digital communities, and/or how (im)politeness
functions in establishing or undermining identities and community
relationships within particular media.


Call for Papers:

Please contact Sage Graham at sgraham2 at memphis.edu for information about the
panel or to submit an abstract for review. Abstracts must be sent to the panel
organizer before 15 September 2016.

Note that all accepted abstracts must also be submitted officially to IPrA by
15 October 2016 via the conference website: 
http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE15&n=1516.




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