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We are delighted to be back and able to share details of upcoming coming events within our seminar series. The first date for your diary is a ‘two-for-one’ Lecture and Workshop on Tiktok Research with Ruth Page co-hosted with the New Methods for New Media network 😎

Delighted to join my colleague Jeannette Littlemore with others on the 2023 list of the top 2% most cited linguists😀Thanks to Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri) for sharing this with us!

Very pleased to let you know about a new research project: Influencer Stories of Mental Health and Young People birmingham.ac.uk/news/2023/infl… via Uni of Birmingham

We are looking to appoint a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, to work on the ESRC funded project: Influencer Stories of Mental Health and Young People. For more details, please see: jobs.ac.uk/job/DED579/res…

Can social media be a force for good? The Curiosity Vault, our podcast series promoting women in research, continues this week, with Dr. Sophie King-Hill and Ruth Page scrolling through the issues. TheCuriosityVault.lnk.to/podcastto

DiLCo, the Universität Hamburg-based research network on “Digital Language Variation in Context”, is delighted to present an online lecture by Camilla Vasquez (USF): "The big ask: Requesting consumer feedback" 23 November 2023, 4 PM CEST (UTC+1) Registration: dilco.uni-hamburg.de/activities/lec…

‘People with mental health problems are weak’. No we are not. People with mental health problems are some of the most resilient & strongest people you’ll ever meet. The amount of strength that is required to deal with the symptoms & the stigma is enormous.

Out now: experimental study on blaming in political protest discourse with Sten Hansson | @stenhansson.bsky.social and Ruth Page. We develop and test a model of how the linguistic framing of political protest posts influences the spread of blame on social media. doi.org/10.1177/009365…

Our theory suggests that the way we express why someone (e.g. a politician) is at fault and whether we're criticizing their character, behavior or the outcomes of their actions influences how strongly other people perceive the criticism and whether they're likely to repost it.

However, there's an intriguing twist! Our study uncovers a "retweetability paradox": contrary to earlier studies and conventional wisdom, messages perceived as more critical are NOT more likely to be reposted, but the opposite is true.

Here's a lay summary of the study: birmingham.ac.uk/news/2022/what… Ling&Comm@UoB

Come join our vibrant team of linguists English Department. We're looking for someone with research expertise in any of the following: discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, stylistics or forensic linguistics jobs.ac.uk/job/DGD809/lec…

New article out now w/ Ruth Page in Discourse, Context and Media on how commanding and thanking in government social media communication elicit blame sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #corpuslinguistics #covid19 #blamegame #blameavoidance #polcomm

Please share the details of new posts advertised at the University of Birmingham! Assistant Professor in Digital Media and Communications (specialising in VR/Video Game) (Research and Education) at University of Birmingham jobs.ac.uk/job/DGK451/ass…

A few articles of the special issue on "Discourses of Political #Blame Games" edited by Sten Hansson | @stenhansson.bsky.social & Ruth Page have been recently published. Find about them in the 🧵⬇️ #DCM_Journal #MediatedDiscourse #blamegame Red them ▶️🔗bit.ly/43NpwOC

Excellent presentation by Ruth Page and Alex Christiansen on #mentalhealth & #influencers

“Strategies of Blaming on Social Media: An Experimental Study of Linguistic Framing and Retweetability” now published in Volume 51, Issue 5 of Communication Research w/ Matteo Fuoli Ruth Page journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

The BBC have exposed influencers selling fake cures for PCOS. Our research found similar risks in some supplement-based solutions for mental health. Is help sometimes harmful? blog.bham.ac.uk/influencerstor…

I'm delighted to share details of a new post advertised for the Department of Linguistics and Communication at the University of Birmingham: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…