32.2692, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis/USA

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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 07:21:57
From: Natalia Knoblock [nlknoblo at svsu.edu]
Subject: Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis

 
Full Title: Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis 
Short Title: ADDA3 

Date: 13-May-2022 - 15-May-2022
Location: St. Petersburg, Florida, USA 
Contact Person: Camilla Vásquez
Meeting Email: adda3conf at gmail.com
Web Site: https://adda3.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis 

Call Deadline: 25-Sep-2021 

Meeting Description:

The 3rd Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis Conference (ADDA 3) will be
held at the St. Petersburg campus of the University of South Florida (USF).
This conference aims to bring together researchers interested in the analysis
of digital discourse from different disciplines, approaches and traditions.
Thus, it seeks to foster state-of-the-art debates and discussions on this
burgeoning field of research and provide opportunities for multidisciplinary
and critical reflection. This is the first time the ADDA conference will be
held in the US, following the ADDA 1 (Valencia, 2015) and ADDA 2 (Turku, 2019)
conferences.

Plenary speakers: 
Anna De Fina – Georgetown University
Elaine Chun – University of South Carolina
Maite Taboada – Simon Fraser University


A License to Hate: Anti-Asian Prejudice in Digital Communication

Proposals are invited for a thematic panel on anti-Asian hate in digital
discourses. It is organized by Massimiliano Demata (University of Turin) and
Natalia Knoblock (Saginaw Valley State University). It will be held at the 3rd
International Conference: Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis (ADDA3),
which will take place at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg,
FL, USA on May 13–15, 2022.

The conference (https://adda3.org) is devoted to the study of digital
communication from different disciplines, approaches and traditions, among
others:

- Research methods in digital discourse analysis
- Theoretical approaches to digital discourse analysis
- Critical digital discourse analysis
- Micro analysis of digital discourse
- Digital genres
- Discourse and identities in the digital world
- Multimodality and digital discourse
- Conflict in digital discourse
- Digital discourse and the professions
- Digital service encounters
- Political discourse in the digital age
- Gender and digital media
- Digital discourse and journalism
- Digital discourse and education
- Digital discourse and health
- Digital discourse and society
- Digital discourse in gaming
- Any other relevant topics related to digital discourse

As reported, racism and anti-Chinese sentiments increased significantly after
the start of the pandemic and have been directly linked to it (Vachuska,
2020). Disturbingly, over ¾ of Chinese Americans polled about their
experiences reported being victim of at least 1 incident of COVID-19 racial
discrimination online and/or in person, and over half perceived health-related
Sinophobia in America and media-perpetuated Sinophobia (Cheah et al., 2020).
Verbal and physical attacks on Asian Americans have been linked to racism and
xenophobia deeply entrenched in the US society, and to the “us vs. them”
worldview relegating Asian Americans to the bottom of the social hierarchy
(Gover, Harper & Langton, 2020). Such feelings have been at least partly
caused or exacerbated by the inflammatory rhetoric by the US politicians (Wu,
2020), and there has been evidence of ex-president Trump’s tweets to cause an
uptick in anti-Asian verbal aggression on Twitter (Ziems et al., 2020).
Researchers have analyzed the victims’ narratives (Satoh & Kaori 2021) and
even identified counter-discourses employing linguistic creativity to oppose
hate (Zhu, 2020)

This panel aims to continue and expand the research into the racially
motivated anti-Asian hate speech and verbal aggression, amplified during the
Coronavirus pandemic, and it will examine the role of the digital medium in
their shaping and dissemination. We invite proposals (not limited to the US
context) that address discursive representations of anti-Asian sentiment, the
spread of hateful messages through networks, the role of the hateful rhetoric
by pundits and politicians, denialism and legitimation strategies, discursive
constructing of otherness, counter-hate messages, and similar themes. This
panel has a particular interest in the issues of inequality, prejudice, and
discrimination. A variety of methods and approaches are welcome, and
interdisciplinary studies are appropriate. 

Please submit your abstract of up to 350 words to Natalia Knoblock
(nlknoblo at svsu.edu) or Massimiliano Demata (massimiliano.demata at unito.it) by
September 25th.  In your abstract, clearly state the aims and research
questions of your paper, its theoretical foundations, the data and methods
used to analyze it, as well as some of the findings. 

References
Cheah, C. S., Wang, C., Ren, H., Zong, X., Cho, H. S. & Xue, X. (2020).
COVID-19 racism and mental health in Chinese American families. Pediatrics,
146(5). DOI: https://doi.org/ 10.1542/peds.2020-021816
Gover, A. R., Harper, S. B., & Langton, L. (2020). Anti-Asian hate crime
during the COVID-19 pandemic: Exploring the reproduction of inequality.
American Journal of Criminal Justice, 45(4), 647-




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