37.2564, FYI: Invited Online Lecture: Jannis Androutsopoulos on the Online-Offline Nexus

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Date: 04-Aug-2026
From: The Japanese Society for Digital Communication Studies [cmmnctn.dgtl at gmail.com]
Subject: Invited Online Lecture: Jannis Androutsopoulos on the Online-Offline Nexus

The Japanese Society for Digital Communication Studies is pleased to
announce its 2026 Special Invited Online Lecture.
Speaker:
Jannis Androutsopoulos (Professor of German and Media Linguistics,
University of Hamburg)
Lecture Title:
Online-offline nexus: Scaling the interface of physical and virtual
action
Date and Time:
Friday, 11 September 2026
9:00 CEST
Venue:
Online via Zoom
Registration:
https://forms.gle/TccShN3CgJdnEW4h8
The lecture is co-hosted by the National Institute for Japanese
Language and Linguistics research project “Developing Methodologies
for Collecting and Analyzing Linguistic Resources across Diverse CMC
Environments.”
Professor Androutsopoulos will discuss the “online-offline nexus”,
focusing on how physical and virtual actions, mediated messages, and
on-site activities become interconnected in contemporary social life.
The lecture will consider the implications of these processes for
linguistic innovation and change, the construction of social
identities, and the spread of behaviours and ideologies.
Professor Kuniyoshi Kataoka of Aichi University will serve as chair.
The event will be held fully online via Zoom. Japanese-language
support, including captions and translation support for questions,
will also be provided.
We welcome participants from all fields concerned with language,
communication, media, and society.
Please feel free to share this announcement with colleagues and others
who may be interested.
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EVENT DETAILS
Date and Time:
Friday, 11 September 2026
9:00 CEST
Venue:
Online via Zoom
Registration:
https://forms.gle/TccShN3CgJdnEW4h8
Schedule:
9:00–9:05 Opening Remarks
9:05–9:20 Chair’s Remarks and Speaker Introduction
9:20–10:50 Lecture
10:50–11:00 Break / Collection of Questions
11:00–11:20 Q&A Session
The Q&A session may be extended until 11:40 if a large number of
questions are received.
The schedule is subject to minor changes.
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LECTURE INFORMATION
Speaker:
Jannis Androutsopoulos
Professor of German and Media Linguistics, University of Hamburg
Speaker’s website:
https://uhh.de/slm-jannis.androutsopoulos
Lecture Title:
Online-offline nexus: Scaling the interface of physical and virtual
action
Abstract:
　　　The notion that online and offline communication interweave and
reinforce each other to shape contemporary social life has become
commonplace across fields such as media studies, sociology, and
linguistics. However, adequate frameworks and methods for in-depth
empirical study of this process are lacking, as is interdisciplinary
awareness for related concepts across different fields. While
sociolinguists converge towards the term ‘online-offline nexus’,
scholars in media and communication studies use terms such as ‘hybrid
space’ and ‘hybrid media culture’.
　　　Drawing inspiration from the current research landscape, this talk
outlines a framework of interconnected ‘nexus’ levels defined by
different scales of temporality and participation. In this
perspective, the online and the offline come together (a) in the ‘here
and now’ of coordinated physical and virtual action; (b) in a
recursive ‘back and forth’ sequence of mediated messages and on-site
activities; and (c) in ‘call and response’ patterns of public
communication by which mediatized messages are taken up and re-enacted
by multi-sited audiences.
　　　I illustrate these ‘nexus’ levels with examples and argue that in
mediatized societies, ‘nexus’ processes are implicated into short- or
long-term processes of linguistic innovation and change, the
construction of social identities, and the (memetic) spread of
behaviours and ideologies.
About the Speaker:
　　　Jannis Androutsopoulos is Professor of German and Media Linguistics
at the University of Hamburg. He was trained at the Universities of
Athens and Heidelberg and has held positions at the Institute for the
German Language in Mannheim, Leibniz University Hannover, King’s
College London, and the Center of Excellence MultiLing at the
University of Oslo.
　　　His research explores relationships between language, media, and
society. Recent publications include Multilingual Families in a
Digital Age: Mediational Repertoires and Transnational Practices (with
Kristin Vold Lexander, Routledge, 2023), Handbuch Sprache und digitale
Kommunikation (co-edited with Friedemann Vogel, De Gruyter, 2024), and
the special issue “Polymedia in Interaction” (Pragmatics and Society
12(5), 2021).
　　　Recent funded projects include the international research network
“Digital Language Variation in Context” (DiLCo, 2021–2024) and a
project on semiotic landscapes and social inequality in secondary
schools (2022–2025).
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CONTACT
Japanese Society for Digital Communication Studies
Email:
cmmnctn.dgtl at gmail.com
Website:
https://sites.google.com/view/cmc-circle
(Currently available in Japanese only)

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

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