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Subject: 33.2630, Calls: Pragmatics/Belgium

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Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 23:06:07
From: Zhuo Jing-Schmidt [everett at linguistlist.org]
Subject: The Pragmatics of Digital Disinformation

 
Full Title: The Pragmatics of Digital Disinformation 

Date: 09-Jul-2023 - 14-Jul-2023
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact Person: Zhuo Jing-Schmidt
Meeting Email: zjingsch at uoregon.edu
Web Site: https://pragmatics.international/page/Brussels2023 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2022 

Meeting Description:

Digital media has transformed the way information is produced, communicated,
transmitted, and consumed (Castells 2009). A byproduct of these
transformations is the rampant spread of disinformation in the digital media
space where the boundaries between user-generated content and traditional mass
media have become ever more blurred (Terzis et al. 2020). This panel takes the
lens of linguistic pragmatics on digital disinformation where disinformation
is defined as information intended for deception.


Call for Papers:

The panel encourages contributors to ask research questions that pertain to: 
1) The relationship between disinformation, misinformation, fake news, and
propaganda from a theoretical perspective in terms of the pragmatics of
communication
2) The pragmalinguistic features and devices including but not limited to the
use of tropes (hyperbole, metaphor, vagueness, etc.) and digital memes,
neologisms, and hashtags in constructing propositions and discourses that
convey disinformation, especially as it relates to consequential public events
3) The ways in which context and motivation shape the representation of
disinformation in social media
4) The ways in which user interactions in social media such as echo chambers
influence the spread of disinformation.  
5) The ways in which disinformation is perceived by users of social media.
6) The communication and propagation of disinformation in digital
institutional media platforms
7) Practices and efforts to control the spread of disinformation and the
implications for freedom of speech

This panel is intended to draw scholars working on discourse in social media,
digital language, media communication, and anyone interested in the role of
language use in social media where disinformation looms large and poses
threats to truth that is central to democracy and a civic society. The complex
nature of the phenomena calls for interdisciplinary approaches in addressing
the relevant research questions. Therefore the panel is open to presentations
that employ quantitative or qualitative data or a combination of both and the
data can be from any social media platform in any language. Similarly, in
terms of methodology, observational, descriptive, experimental, corpus-based,
and corpus-driven and/or mixed methods are all welcome.        

Keywords: digital language, pragmatics, disinformation, media

To contribute to the panel on the Pragmatics of Digital Disinformation, submit
your abstract of 300-500 words outlining your research questions, data
sources, and research methods as well as preliminary results by November 1,
2022.




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