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Research paper thumbnail of Post-Digital Connectivities: Framing Offline Encounters in a Digital Prospection Space

Applied linguistics, Feb 17, 2024

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Research paper thumbnail of Conversational rhythm as a disconnective practice among middle-aged adults in situated mobile-messaging interactions

Journal of pragmatics, Aug 1, 2024

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Research paper thumbnail of Secondary Qualitative Research Methodology Using Online Data within the Context of Social Sciences

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

Qualitative research using interviews is a crucial and established inquiry method in social scien... more Qualitative research using interviews is a crucial and established inquiry method in social sciences to ensure that the study outputs represent the researched people and area rather than those who are researching. However, first hand primary data collection is not always possible, often due to external circumstances. Additionally, the use of secondary data, particularly open data, is progressively preferred to increase efficiency and gain geographical breadth. Therefore, this paper proposes a new step-by-step secondary qualitative inquiry methodology for online, publicly available interview data. Such procedural approach can help increase rigor, explicitly consider and mitigate potential pitfalls, and expand the research community’s datasets. The 7-step methodology is based on a hybrid approach with elements of pragmatic qualitative approach, discursive grounded theory, and narrative approach and refers to research ethical principles of autonomy, equity, and diversity. One of the pr...

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Research paper thumbnail of Heritage and social media in superdiverse cities: personalised, networked and multimodal

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Research paper thumbnail of Polymedia Repertoires

Mobile Messaging and Resourcefulness, Mar 3, 2022

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Research paper thumbnail of Towards a transhistorical approach to analysing discourse about and in motion

Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, Jun 8, 2020

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Research paper thumbnail of Mobile Resourcefulness

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Research paper thumbnail of Sharing in Mobile Conversations

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Research paper thumbnail of Repertoires on the move: exploiting technological affordances and contexts in mobile messaging interactions

International Journal of Multilingualism, 2021

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Research paper thumbnail of Storyworld in Text-Messages: Sequentiality and Spatialisation

In this chapter, I discuss texters’ use of specific discursive tools to (re)construct storyworlds... more In this chapter, I discuss texters’ use of specific discursive tools to (re)construct storyworlds and position themselves within a discursively constructed and spatially organised narrative. Communicators create distinct communicative spaces and mental counterparts of themselves or other elements/entities in their reality linked by means of a conceptual connector. Based on the analysis of sequentiality and storyworld construction in text-messages, I establish texting as bearing narrative potential and worthy of further investigation under narrative studies frameworks. This chapter opens a line of inquiry into a ripe yet unexplored field of the text-message narrative.

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Research paper thumbnail of Negotiating the expertise paradox in new mothers’ WhatsApp group interactions

Discourse, Context & Media, 2020

Abstract This paper reports on a discourse-ethnographic study of WhatsApp communication between n... more Abstract This paper reports on a discourse-ethnographic study of WhatsApp communication between new mums affiliated with the National Childbirth Trust (NCT). The data consists of over 600 screenshots collected over a 13-month period and supplemented by semi-formal interviews. The focus is on the nature of NCT WhatsApp messaging, with its semi-private character, as a platform for gathering and evaluating knowledge, sharing embodied experiences, and self-positioning with respect to medical professionals and medical advice. Analysis focuses on the process of constructing and de-constructing expertise and negotiating the expertise paradox, which involves new parents being positioned as fully responsible for their child’s wellbeing and development, while also requiring training in the art of childcare provided by health care professionals. With virtually unrestricted access to information, mothers are expected to act as responsible moral actors, evaluating existing advice, managing cultural expectations and adopting a highly reflexive orientation to their maternal responsibilities. The study shows that, through an ongoing WhatsApp engagement with each other, new mums create a pool of parenthood-related expert and experiential knowledge, which is both similar and different from that experienced in “intimate mothering publics” (Johnson 2015) online.

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Research paper thumbnail of Multimodal expression in written digital discourse: The case of kineticons

Journal of Pragmatics, 2018

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Research paper thumbnail of Polish shop(ping) as Translanguaging Space

Social Semiotics, 2017

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Research paper thumbnail of Multimodality

A Practical Guide, 2015

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Research paper thumbnail of Louise-Amélie Cougnon & Cédrick Fairon (eds.), SMS communication: A linguistic approach. (Benjamins current topics 61) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2014. Pp. viii, 267. Hb. €95, $143

Language in Society, 2015

Over the years, the language of texting (SMS messaging or text messaging) has generated a lot of ... more Over the years, the language of texting (SMS messaging or text messaging) has generated a lot of discussion: Thurlow (2003) and Hård af Segerstad (2005) refer to ‘hype and hysteria’ that have accompanied the emergence of this newwayof communicating and Crystal (2008; also in the foreword of the reviewed volume) emphasises the hard work involved in debunking the myths associated with texting language (or textese, as it is sometimes referred to). Now that the initial popular panic over the potential detrimental effects of texting on literacy and communicative skills has abated—and more than two decades have passed since the first text message was sent—it is time for a linguistic analysis of this much-feared genre. This volume is one of the ‘Benjamins current topics’ series and its aim is to bring timely material earlier circulated in the form of a journal special issue to a wider readership. Chapters in this volume were previously published in 2012 in Lingvisticae Investigationes 35:2. The eleven papers devoted to various aspects of the linguistic analysis of text messages (SMS) are now available in a book format, preceded by a foreword by David Crystal and an introduction by the editors. The threefold aim of the book, as stated in the introduction, is (i) to present recent linguistic research pertaining to SMS communication, (ii) to provide information about existing SMS corpora, and (iii) to demonstrate the range of linguistic research that can be conducted on SMS corpora. The introduction provides a useful summary of existing research into SMS communication (although some research, such as Hård af Segerstad’s (2005), could have been added to complete the list), starting from the early research that recognised the importance of the medium, with its affordances and constraints, in constructing electronically mediated texts and the particular features of individual digital media, to the emerging, although still quite rare, studies of the linguistic phenomena of the language used in text messages. The editors bring attention to the many aspects of SMS language that still need exploring. For example, very little research has been done on lexical and dialogical properties of SMS language, syntactic trends, and the impact of SMS practices on more formal writing. The pioneering research has, however, opened a line of enquiry into the features of SMS language and enabled a move to a more varied range of subjects that this volume aims to continue. Frequent reference

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Research paper thumbnail of The ethics of digital ethnography in a team project

Applied Linguistics Review, 2017

This article draws on researcher vignettes to explore ethical decisions made in the process of co... more This article draws on researcher vignettes to explore ethical decisions made in the process of collecting and analysing mobile messaging data as part of a team ethnographic project exploring multilingualism in superdiverse UK cities. The research involves observing key participants at work as well as recording them at home and collecting their digital interactions. The nature of ethnographic research raises ethical issues which highlight the impossibility of divorcing ethics from project decision-making. We therefore take on board a reconceptualisation of research ethics not as an external set of guidelines but as being at the core of research, driving decision-making at all steps of the process. The researcher vignettes on which we draw in exploring this process facilitate a reflexive approach and enable us to identify and address ethical issues in our research. In this article, we focus on the potential impact that digital communication technologies can have on the kinds of relati...

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Research paper thumbnail of Post-digital Ethnography and the Networked Individual

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Research paper thumbnail of Combining modes

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Research paper thumbnail of Post-Digital Connectivities: Framing Offline Encounters in a Digital Prospection Space

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Research paper thumbnail of Conversational rhythm as a disconnective practice among middle-aged adults in situated mobile-messaging interactions

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Research paper thumbnail of Secondary Qualitative Research Methodology Using Online Data within the Context of Social Sciences

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

Qualitative research using interviews is a crucial and established inquiry method in social scien... more Qualitative research using interviews is a crucial and established inquiry method in social sciences to ensure that the study outputs represent the researched people and area rather than those who are researching. However, first hand primary data collection is not always possible, often due to external circumstances. Additionally, the use of secondary data, particularly open data, is progressively preferred to increase efficiency and gain geographical breadth. Therefore, this paper proposes a new step-by-step secondary qualitative inquiry methodology for online, publicly available interview data. Such procedural approach can help increase rigor, explicitly consider and mitigate potential pitfalls, and expand the research community’s datasets. The 7-step methodology is based on a hybrid approach with elements of pragmatic qualitative approach, discursive grounded theory, and narrative approach and refers to research ethical principles of autonomy, equity, and diversity. One of the pr...

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Research paper thumbnail of Heritage and social media in superdiverse cities: personalised, networked and multimodal

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Research paper thumbnail of Polymedia Repertoires

Mobile Messaging and Resourcefulness, Mar 3, 2022

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Research paper thumbnail of Towards a transhistorical approach to analysing discourse about and in motion

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Research paper thumbnail of Mobile Resourcefulness

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Research paper thumbnail of Sharing in Mobile Conversations

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Research paper thumbnail of Repertoires on the move: exploiting technological affordances and contexts in mobile messaging interactions

International Journal of Multilingualism, 2021

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Research paper thumbnail of Storyworld in Text-Messages: Sequentiality and Spatialisation

In this chapter, I discuss texters’ use of specific discursive tools to (re)construct storyworlds... more In this chapter, I discuss texters’ use of specific discursive tools to (re)construct storyworlds and position themselves within a discursively constructed and spatially organised narrative. Communicators create distinct communicative spaces and mental counterparts of themselves or other elements/entities in their reality linked by means of a conceptual connector. Based on the analysis of sequentiality and storyworld construction in text-messages, I establish texting as bearing narrative potential and worthy of further investigation under narrative studies frameworks. This chapter opens a line of inquiry into a ripe yet unexplored field of the text-message narrative.

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Research paper thumbnail of Negotiating the expertise paradox in new mothers’ WhatsApp group interactions

Discourse, Context & Media, 2020

Abstract This paper reports on a discourse-ethnographic study of WhatsApp communication between n... more Abstract This paper reports on a discourse-ethnographic study of WhatsApp communication between new mums affiliated with the National Childbirth Trust (NCT). The data consists of over 600 screenshots collected over a 13-month period and supplemented by semi-formal interviews. The focus is on the nature of NCT WhatsApp messaging, with its semi-private character, as a platform for gathering and evaluating knowledge, sharing embodied experiences, and self-positioning with respect to medical professionals and medical advice. Analysis focuses on the process of constructing and de-constructing expertise and negotiating the expertise paradox, which involves new parents being positioned as fully responsible for their child’s wellbeing and development, while also requiring training in the art of childcare provided by health care professionals. With virtually unrestricted access to information, mothers are expected to act as responsible moral actors, evaluating existing advice, managing cultural expectations and adopting a highly reflexive orientation to their maternal responsibilities. The study shows that, through an ongoing WhatsApp engagement with each other, new mums create a pool of parenthood-related expert and experiential knowledge, which is both similar and different from that experienced in “intimate mothering publics” (Johnson 2015) online.

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Research paper thumbnail of Multimodal expression in written digital discourse: The case of kineticons

Journal of Pragmatics, 2018

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Research paper thumbnail of Polish shop(ping) as Translanguaging Space

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Research paper thumbnail of Multimodality

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Research paper thumbnail of Louise-Amélie Cougnon & Cédrick Fairon (eds.), SMS communication: A linguistic approach. (Benjamins current topics 61) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2014. Pp. viii, 267. Hb. €95, $143

Language in Society, 2015

Over the years, the language of texting (SMS messaging or text messaging) has generated a lot of ... more Over the years, the language of texting (SMS messaging or text messaging) has generated a lot of discussion: Thurlow (2003) and Hård af Segerstad (2005) refer to ‘hype and hysteria’ that have accompanied the emergence of this newwayof communicating and Crystal (2008; also in the foreword of the reviewed volume) emphasises the hard work involved in debunking the myths associated with texting language (or textese, as it is sometimes referred to). Now that the initial popular panic over the potential detrimental effects of texting on literacy and communicative skills has abated—and more than two decades have passed since the first text message was sent—it is time for a linguistic analysis of this much-feared genre. This volume is one of the ‘Benjamins current topics’ series and its aim is to bring timely material earlier circulated in the form of a journal special issue to a wider readership. Chapters in this volume were previously published in 2012 in Lingvisticae Investigationes 35:2. The eleven papers devoted to various aspects of the linguistic analysis of text messages (SMS) are now available in a book format, preceded by a foreword by David Crystal and an introduction by the editors. The threefold aim of the book, as stated in the introduction, is (i) to present recent linguistic research pertaining to SMS communication, (ii) to provide information about existing SMS corpora, and (iii) to demonstrate the range of linguistic research that can be conducted on SMS corpora. The introduction provides a useful summary of existing research into SMS communication (although some research, such as Hård af Segerstad’s (2005), could have been added to complete the list), starting from the early research that recognised the importance of the medium, with its affordances and constraints, in constructing electronically mediated texts and the particular features of individual digital media, to the emerging, although still quite rare, studies of the linguistic phenomena of the language used in text messages. The editors bring attention to the many aspects of SMS language that still need exploring. For example, very little research has been done on lexical and dialogical properties of SMS language, syntactic trends, and the impact of SMS practices on more formal writing. The pioneering research has, however, opened a line of enquiry into the features of SMS language and enabled a move to a more varied range of subjects that this volume aims to continue. Frequent reference

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Research paper thumbnail of The ethics of digital ethnography in a team project

Applied Linguistics Review, 2017

This article draws on researcher vignettes to explore ethical decisions made in the process of co... more This article draws on researcher vignettes to explore ethical decisions made in the process of collecting and analysing mobile messaging data as part of a team ethnographic project exploring multilingualism in superdiverse UK cities. The research involves observing key participants at work as well as recording them at home and collecting their digital interactions. The nature of ethnographic research raises ethical issues which highlight the impossibility of divorcing ethics from project decision-making. We therefore take on board a reconceptualisation of research ethics not as an external set of guidelines but as being at the core of research, driving decision-making at all steps of the process. The researcher vignettes on which we draw in exploring this process facilitate a reflexive approach and enable us to identify and address ethical issues in our research. In this article, we focus on the potential impact that digital communication technologies can have on the kinds of relati...

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Research paper thumbnail of Post-digital Ethnography and the Networked Individual

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Research paper thumbnail of Combining modes

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