27.1402, Confs: Applied Ling, Discourse Analysis, General Ling/UK

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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 15:02:09
From: Agnieszka Lyons [a.lyons at qmul.ac.uk]
Subject: BAAL Language and New Media SIG 2016 Workshop: Multimodality in Social Media and Digital Environments

BAAL Language and New Media SIG 2016 Workshop: Multimodality in Social Media and Digital Environments 

Date: 15-Apr-2016 - 15-Apr-2016 
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Contact: Agnieszka Lyons 
Contact Email: a.lyons at qmul.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://www.baal.org.uk/sig_lnm.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

Gestures, positioning in space, and other forms of embodied communication are
frequently recognised as bearing meaning-making potential in interpersonal
interactions and print mediaalongside (or instead of) language. There is also
a feeling of urgency to systematically account for multimodal aspects of
digital environments, particularly as they increasingly focus on multimodal
content and foster intertextuality and interactivity.

This relatively new scholarly interest brings with it a number of
methodological considerations as well as questions related to the application
and interpretation of semiotic resources beyond language in digital contexts.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in the
multimodal aspects of social and digital communication, to discuss
methodological considerations in multimodal social media research, and explore
the possible ways forward. The event will consist of invited plenaries, paper
presentations and discussions.

Confirmed invited speakers
- Prof. Rodney Jones (University of Reading)
- Dr Myrrh Domingo (IOE UCL)

Program:

8.30-9:00 Registration and coffee

9:00-10:00 
Plenary talk:
Dr Myrrh Domingo (UCL) 

10:00-10:15 Tea & Talk

Session One: Performing

10:15 
Multimodal digital repertoires-in-use: performing gendered identities through
message chunking, kisses and emojis (Caroline Tagg  Esther Asprey)

10:40 
Discursive leadership in virtual work, or ‘How to be boss in Instant
Messaging?’ (Erika Darics)

11:05  
‘Multimodality in the Shared Story: A case study in the YouTube coverage of
Oscar Pistorius’ 
(Ruth Page)

11:30 Tea & Talk

Session Two: Learning

11:45
Online Informal Language Learning: Incidental Vocabulary Gains from Watching
YouTube Videos and Reading Blog Posts 
(Henriette Arndt) 

12:10
Acts of interpretation: tutor experiences of multimodal-meaning making in
digital environments 
(James Lamb)

12:35
A case study of self-directed online learning of Chinese using multimodal
methods 
(Jenifer Ho)

1:00-2:00 Lunch

Session Three: Transforming

2:00
Multimodal negotiation of meaning: the transformative nature of the mode of
gesture in relation to second language dialogues mediated by mobile
technologies 
(Helen Lee)

2:25
Space as a resource in videochat 
(Dorottya Cserző) 

2:50
“Nice picture comment!” Graphicons in Facebook Comment Threads 
(Ashley Dainas and Susan C. Herring)

3:15-3:30 Tea & Talk

Session Four: Adapting

3:30
‘I have to type as you can’t hear me’: Challenges of transcribing multimodal
data 
(Melinda Dooly and Francesca Helm)

3:55
A step-by-step approach for a social semiotic multimodal analysis of digital
remediation 
(Elisabetta Adami)

4:20
Adapting Mediated Discourse Analysis in New Media from Computer-Mediated
Communication (CMC) to Computer-Mediated Discourse (CMD)
(Huey Fen Cheong)

4:50-5:50 
Plenary:
Prof Rodney Jones (Reading University): Indexicality and Emplacement in
Facebook Snapchat and Tinder: Towards a geosemiotics of networked imaging

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