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Jannis Androutsopoulos is professor in German and media linguistics at the University of Hamburg, where he moved in October 2009 after two years as Reader in Sociolinguistics and Media Discourse at King’s College London. Before that he worked at the University of Hanover, the Leibniz Institute for the German Language in Manheim, and the University of Heidelberg. From 2016-2023 he was research professor at MultiLing, University of Oslo.
His work is at the interface of sociolinguistics and media discourse studies, focusing on the relationship between linguistic differentiation and mediation. He has done research on a range of mediated genres, including news discourse, fiction and performance, advertising, song lyrics, computer-mediated communication, and texting. His research on computer-mediated communication examines the relationship between technology, agency, and interaction and its implications for linguistic variability and stylistic practice.
He is co-author of Multilingual families in a digital age (with K.V. Lexander, Routledge, 2023), and editor of Polymedia in Interaction (Pragmatics & Society SI, 2021), Digital language practices in superdiversity (Discourse Context & Media SI, 2014), Mediatization and sociolinguistic change (De Gruyter, 2014), Language and society in cinematic discourse (Multilingua SI, 2012), Data and methods in Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis (with M. Beißwenger, 2008), Discourse constructions of youth identities (with A. Georgakopoulou, 2003, Benjamins). He is currently the coordinator of the international network DiLCo (Digital Language Variation in Context), hosted at the University of Hamburg.
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Working with social media comments: Data retrieval and mixed-methods analysis
Social media platforms depend on user comments for public participation and user-to-user as well as user-to-creator interactivity. Linguistics research draws on user comments to study different aspects of language and communication online (e.g. language variation, mediated interaction, digital discourse), relying on a wide range of data collection and analysis methods, from anecdotally sketchy to esoterically technical. This hands-on workshop introduces low-threshold techniques for the automated retrieval and mixed-methods analysis of user comments. ‘Low-threshold’ means that programming/coding skills (e.g. in Python and R) are not required. The main idea behind the workshop is that data tools help us to scale up data collection in the selected object domain and to contextualize the selection of examples for fine-grained analysis, thereby providing a backdrop to the qualitative examination of user comments. After an introduction to social media comments and data collection ethics, we cover tools for downloading and saving comments and discuss the use of spreadsheet data for corpus and/or sequential analysis. Finally, participants have the opportunity to try out the process on a selected example.
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linguistics.research.seminars@gmail.com
PID 041/2022-2023
PID ID2022/085
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