{"id":19,"date":"2019-06-14T09:58:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T08:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/newmethodsfornewmedia2019\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2020-06-22T15:13:13","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T14:13:13","slug":"invited-speaker-bios","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/newmethodsfornewmedia2019\/invited-speaker-bios\/","title":{"rendered":"Invited speaker bios"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Dr. George Bailey (University of York, UK) <\/strong>has\nresearch interests at the intersection between sociophonetics, phonological\ntheory, and language variation and change. He uses a range of quantitative\nmethods to conduct this research, including collecting, processing and\nanalysing social media data in R. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www-users.york.ac.uk\/~gb1055\/\">http:\/\/www-users.york.ac.uk\/~gb1055\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prof. Michael\nBeisswenger (Universitat Duisberg-Essen, Germany) <\/strong>is researching social media from a\nlinguistic perspective and has been involved in several funded projects and\nnetworks on building, annotating and representing social media corpora in the\nfield of Digital Humanities. He has a second focus on using social media in\nschools and higher education (digitally-enhanced learning with cooperative\ntools). He has published widely in this area (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uni-due.de\/germanistik\/beisswenger\/publikationen.php\">https:\/\/www.uni-due.de\/germanistik\/beisswenger\/publikationen.php<\/a>). In his projects he has repeatedly\nbeen working on the interface of linguistics, computer science and language\ntechnology (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uni-due.de\/germanistik\/beisswenger\/forschung.php\">https:\/\/www.uni-due.de\/germanistik\/beisswenger\/forschung.php<\/a>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prof. Lutz Hagen (TU Dresden, Germany)<\/strong>, Chair of Political and Economical Communication, conducts research in communications, especially production, reception and the impact of news coverage on economical issues; empirical research methods, especially computer assisted content analysis; media and economics; and online communication. <a href=\"https:\/\/tu-dresden.de\/gsw\/phil\/ifk\/das-institut\/professuren\/professur-ii\">https:\/\/tu-dresden.de\/gsw\/phil\/ifk\/das-institut\/professuren\/professur-ii<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dr. Ruth Page (University of Birmingham, UK) <\/strong>has research interests focused on narrative analysis, computer-mediated communication and language and gender.&nbsp; Her research includes both literary-critical and discourse analytic approaches to narrative, exploring storytelling examples found in literary, conversational, and most recently, social media contexts.&nbsp; She has published two recent monographs in this field (<em>Narratives Online: Shared Stories and Social Media Controversies, <\/em>Cambridge: CUP, 2018; <em>Stories and Social Media: Identities and Interaction,<\/em> London &amp; NY: Routledge, 2012). She has also co-authored a textbook (<em>Researching the Language of Social Media<\/em>, with David Barton, Johann Unger and Michele Zappavigna, London and New York: Routledge, 2014) and co-edited a collection (<em>New Narratives: Stories and Storytelling in the Digital Age<\/em>, with Bronwen Thomas, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011), as well as publishing numerous journal articles and book chapters in the field of language and digital media (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/staff\/profiles\/elal\/page-ruth.aspx\">https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/staff\/profiles\/elal\/page-ruth.aspx<\/a>).&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dr. Piia Varis (Tilburg University, Netherlands) <\/strong>is an expert in digital ethnography. She has published widely in this area, including forthcoming chapters in the <em>The Routledge Handbook of English Language and Digital Humanities<\/em> (eds. Svenja Adolphs &amp; Dawn Knight, Abingdon: Routledge) and <em>The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Ethnography<\/em> (ed. Karin Tusting, Abingdon: Routledge). Also forthcoming is her monograph on <em>Digital Culture and Ethnography. A Beginner&#8217;s Guide<\/em> (New York: Routledge). Her work concerns the study of new social and cultural processes on the internet, focusing especially on processes of authenticity articulation and performance in social media and on the social-theoretical implications of new subjectivities in a globalized and super-diverse virtual environment. <a href=\"https:\/\/research.tilburguniversity.edu\/en\/persons\/piia-varis\">https:\/\/research.tilburguniversity.edu\/en\/persons\/piia-varis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. George Bailey (University of York, UK) has research interests at the intersection between sociophonetics, phonological theory, and language variation and change. 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