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Don’t forget to register for the joint research workshop hosted by two BAAL: British Association for Applied Linguistics SIGs health communication and language & new media! A great lineup for a hybrid mode with in person talks on the day and more online talk sessions following the event eventbrite.com/e/baal-new-med…

The programme for joint SIG event is now online 🥳🥳 baallangnewmedia.wordpress.com/events/past-ev…

Our Leticia-Tian Zhang paper (open access) on how video-sharing platforms shape video practices is finally out 😇 it gives an overview of Bilibili ("the Chinese youtube for the TikTok youth 🤪") and includes a section the (in)famous Guichu videos! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Marking is hardly a fun task, but this year's student projects for my Discourse Analysis course are just so freakingly amazing 🤯🤩. I learned so much from reading them in particular how we can creatively use social media data in linguistic research.

Join us and guest speaker Sumin Zhao (The University of Edinburgh) to discuss the role social media apps play in the literacy practices of young people from Chinese-speaking families. 📅 23 May ⏰ 1 - 2 p.m. 📍 University of Bath Book your space below. ⬇️ bath.ac.uk/events/the-hun… Sumin （蘇敏）Zhao

I have finally wrapped up all the old projects and sent off all the writings I owe people. It’s time for new projects I had been plotting since the end of the COVID 😭😭😭🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️

Hello lovely corpus people, can any one help one of my PhDs? Does anyone know how one can fix or get around this bug on CQPweb? 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Our @BAAL SIG (baallangnewmedia.wordpress.com) is looking for new convenor (replacing me) and event coordinator! I have served on both roles and they helped me to build up a community in the UK as a "foreigner" ;-) ! Do put your hands up 🙋‍♂️🙋🙋‍♀️.

The sexiest talk I have event written mostly because I interpreted the conference theme in a very literal way 🙂‍↔️🫣😳

A huge thanks to @drjenrowsell for such a wonderful conference and all the great talks 😚 meeting with Sheffield literacy scholars has always been a joy, especially after 2 millions of years Fiona Scott Dr Abi Hackett Chris Bailey. Shine on all you diamonds

Pleasantly surprised to discover that my honours student Sophie Anderson has received this year's Angus Mactintosh Prize for her project on pointing gestures across vlog genres. 😆 It is one of those moments that make you feel that your life is not completely wasted..🥹🥹

Many thanks to Edinburgh Linguistics Circle (Christian Ilbury Sumin （蘇敏）Zhao & Lauren Hall-Lew (she/her), @[email protected] & many others) for the opportunity to share my The Leverhulme Trust funded project on the urban history of Shanghainese. Really enjoyed learning more about your research during my visit as well! ✨

Hello All, Dr Xi Cui (College of Charleston) and I are editing a special issue on Global Diaspora and Social Media for a free open access journal. You can find the call here omgc.shisu.edu.cn/fd/2f/c12420a1… All approaches welcome and especially those who work on less documented diasporic communities.