28.5223, Calls: Anthro Ling, Disc Analysis, Pragmatics, Socioling/Germany

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Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 14:35:43
From: Britta Schneider [britta.schneider at fu-berlin.de]
Subject: Ethnographic Approach to Digitally Mediated Publics

 
Full Title: Ethnographic Approach to Digitally Mediated Publics 

Date: 22-Mar-2018 - 22-Mar-2018
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact Person: Britta Schneider
Meeting Email: britta.schneider at fu-berlin.de
Web Site: http://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/v/wild-publics/workshop/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Dec-2017 

Meeting Description:

Prior to the ''Wild Publics'' conference, on 22 March 2018, we offer two
methodological workshops for junior researchers, one oriented towards
qualitative and one towards quantitative methods to study language practice in
online contexts. We are proud to announce that both workshops are conducted by
specialist experts to the field. Ethnographic Approach to Digitally Mediated
Publics is one of these workshops. 

This workshop focuses on the implications of digitalisation for doing
ethnographic research, and for how we conceptualise the ‘public’. The session
is divided into two parts. The first part is a more theoretical introduction
to digital ethnographic research, and digitally mediated publics. In the
second part we will focus on analysing specific digital practices (Jones et
al. 2015) and how particular kinds of knowledge and expertise are legitimated
in digitally mediated (micro-)publics, specifically on social media. As
digital media has enabled the visibility, and perhaps also the proliferation,
of different forms of knowledge about health, healthy living and wellbeing,
we’ll take health discourse as an example of how social media function as loci
for new kinds of expertise and publics. We’ll pay specific attention to the
role the affordances of social media play in the configuration of publics, and
in the legitimation and (in)visibility of certain types of knowledge online.
The workshop is suitable for junior researchers interested in digital
ethnographic research, and analysis of social media discourse.

References

Jones, Rodney H., Alice Chik & Christoph A. Hafner 2015. Introduction.
Discourse analysis and digital practices. In Jones, Rodney H. et al. (eds.)
Discourse and digital practices. Doing discourse analysis in the digital age.
London: Routledge, 1-17.


2nd Call for Papers:

See
http://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/v/wild-publics/workshop/index
.html for detailed descriptions.

Pre-doc and post-doc researchers from any disciplinary background are welcome
to apply. You can apply for only one workshop as both take place
simultaneously. Participation is free and participants can attend the
symposium that takes place on the 23rd and 24th of March 2018 for free
(accommodation, food and travel is self-paying).

Places are limited therefore we ask for a brief and informal application
containing a short CV and a short description of your PhD / post doc project
and one sentence that explains why you want to participate. Please hand in
your applications until the 31 of December at britta.schneider at fu-berlin.de or
theresa.heyd at fu-berlin.de. Feel free to contact us if you have further
questions.




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