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SUMMARY:Intertextuality and metadiscourse in an online community: “Fixing” posts and “locking” threads
DESCRIPTION:Cynthia Gordon – Georgetown University (https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014TpEoAAK/cynthia-gordon) \n(Virtual Zoom) 9:30 am -11:00 am\, Friday \nAbstract\nIntertextuality – the idea that all texts and conversations are linked to other texts and conversations\, and that people make and infer meanings in discourse through making and interpreting these links – is fundamentally connected to metadiscourse\, that is\, discourse about discourse. In this talk\, I explore the specific ways in which\, and for what purposes\, these phenomena are intertwined at the micro-interactional level in one online community. Using the perspective of interactional sociolinguistics to examine users’ posts to discussion boards affiliated with a popular weight loss app\, I focus on two inherently metadiscursive activities: when a user “fixes” another poster’s post (i.e.\, by adjusting the content and adding some version of “I fixed it for you”) and when a discussion board moderator “locks” a thread that has violated one or more community guidelines (i.e.\, by posting a message that announces the guideline violation and indicates that future posts to the thread will be prohibited). I identify and explicate intertextual linking strategies that facilitate these activities\, both linguistic (e.g.\, word repetition\, deictic pronouns) and multimodal (e.g.\, emojis\, symbols\, and GIFs). I also highlight the role of these actions in constructing shared understandings\, interactional norms\, and engagement in the community. \n ||  \nBiography\nCynthia Gordon is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on how meanings\, relationships\, and identities are constructed in digital discourse\, in food-related communication\, and in family interaction. Gordon is author of two books: Making Meanings\, Creating Family: Intertextuality and Framing in Family Interaction and Intertextuality 2.0: Metadiscourse and Meaning-Making in an Online Community (both Oxford University Press). She is co-editor of Approaches to Discourse Analysis (Georgetown University Press) and co-editor (with Alla Tovares) of Identity and Ideology in Digital Food Discourse: Social Media Interactions Across Cultural Contexts (Bloomsbury). \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/97158415907?pwd=K3paTStLVjR3L0N1eHFpa2w0OEREUT09 \nMeeting ID: 971 5841 5907\nPassword: 800333 \nLivestream will be available at Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/intertextuality-and-metadiscourse-in-an-online-community-fixing-posts-and-locking-threads/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230317T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230317T180000
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SUMMARY:The application of digital humanities: A case study of Irish literature
DESCRIPTION:Jenny Kwok – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Affiliates/280/Dr_Jenny_Kwok) \n4:30 pm – 6:00 pm\, Friday \nAbstract\nThe recent increasing demand to quantify the efficiency of research output poses a challenge to subjects such as the humanities\, which are arguably qualitative in nature. In this context\, humanities research can greatly benefit from digital humanities approaches in communicating the significance of our scholarly output in quantitative terms. In this seminar\, I will draw on my current research project\, which focuses on the classification of Irish and Anglo-Irish literature\, a classification that is often ambiguous and problematic. I will demonstrate how the use of digital tools can increase the efficiency of conducting this kind of research\, and present the three types of digital humanities projects I have identified. Finally\, I will discuss the possibility of reconsidering digital humanities as a practical tool for previously unthinkable projects\, and how its application can potentially increase the fundability of projects\, especially for early-career scholars. \n ||  \nBiography\nDr Jenny Kwok specialises in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Anglo-Irish writers and intellectual history\, particularly in relation to the tradition of liberal education and the post-World War I struggle between the humanities and the sciences. Dr Kwok was a Kilns Scholar in Residence of the C.S. Lewis Foundation and a recipient of the Werner Huber Fellowship of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL). She has previously published on the Anglo-Irish poet Seamus Heaney and his seminal work Station Island. As well as developing her dissertation into a monograph\, she is working on publications on Irish literature as world literature and on applications of digital visualisation (in particular dispersion plot and VOS Viewer). \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/92167490113?pwd=L1phUmZFRkR4Z1lwdU1JaEttOU45Zz09 \nMeeting ID: 921 6749 0113\nPassword: 889616
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/the-application-of-digital-humanities-a-case-study-of-irish-literature/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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SUMMARY:Connected parenting: Digital discourse and diverse family practices
DESCRIPTION:Jai Mackenzie – Newman University (https://www.newman.ac.uk/staff/jai-mackenzie/) \n(Virtual Zoom) \nAbstract\nThis presentation explores the role of social media in contemporary parenting and family practice. It takes its title from my forthcoming book (Bloomsbury\, 2023)\, and draws on digital and interview data from my research with single and/or LGBT parents who brought children into their lives through adoption\, donor conception\, surrogacy and/or co-parenting arrangements. In the talk I will propose that connection is the defining force in these parents’ social and support networks\, and that they construct their parenting and family practices in and through connection with others. This connected parenting practice has three core components: epistemic connection\, collective connection and affective connection. These forms of connection are often facilitated by new media technologies\, and integrated with other (non-digital) connective practices\, such as face-to-face meetings\, telephone calls and prayer. Using mediated discourse analysis (Jones\, 2005; Scollon\, 2001\, 1998) to focus my exploration on the mediated social action\, I elaborate these three dimensions of connected parenting\, using illustrative examples from my participants’ social media and mobile messaging data. I close by considering some of the implications of connected parenting for contemporary parenting and family practice\, especially in new and marginalised family forms. \n  \nReferences: https://tinyurl.com/2p9btpke \nBook: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/connected-parenting-9781350262539/ \n ||  \nBiography\nJai is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Writing and Humanities at Newman University\, Birmingham. Her research focuses primarily on the ways in which gendered\, sexual and familial roles\, relationships and practices are shaped and (re)produced in digital contexts. She has undertaken a range of collaborative and single-authored research in this area\, including the monographs Language\, Gender and Parenthood Online (Routledge\, 2019) and Connected Parenting (Bloomsbury\, 2023). Jai is convenor of the Language\, Gender and Sexuality special interest group\, which sits within the British Association of Applied Linguistics. She is a member of the editorial board for Discourse\, Context and Media. \nJones\, R.H.\, 2005. Discourse in Action: Introducing mediated discourse analysis. Routledge\, London and New York. \nScollon\, R.\, 2001. Mediated Discourse: The nexus of practice. Routledge\, London and New York.  \nScollon\, R.\, 1998. Mediated Discourse as Social Interaction. Longman\, London. \n  \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/98964286778?pwd=eGloS0w2WlRnZFI1SVo4eGZjTlMwZz09 \nMeeting ID: 989 6428 6778\nPassword: 415387 \nLivestream will be available at Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/connected-parenting-digital-discourse-and-diverse-family-practices/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230327
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230328
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SUMMARY:Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (MFA) is now open for Applications
DESCRIPTION:2023-2024 Full-time \nExtended deadline for application \n12:00 noon (GMT +8)\, March 31\, 2023
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/master-of-fine-arts-in-creative-writing-mfa-is-now-open-for-applications-2/
CATEGORIES:News
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230327
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SUMMARY:Master of Arts in Creative Communications (MACC) is now open for Applications
DESCRIPTION:2023-2024 Full-time \nExtended deadline for application \n12:00 noon (GMT +8)\, March 31\, 2023
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/master-of-arts-in-creative-communications-macc-is-now-open-for-applications/
CATEGORIES:News
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230330T163000
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SUMMARY:Selfish matter: William Blake and eighteenth-century sciences of the mind
DESCRIPTION:Tara Lee – The University of Hong Kong (https://www.sof.arts.hku.hk/tara-lee) \nAbstract\nWhat do we do with Blake's abandoned manuscript poem\, The Four Zoas? Left unfinished with its various revisions\, deletions\, and insertions\, assembled into a heterogenous bundle of nearly 150 sheets with two versions of chapter seven left extant\, the manuscript poem has long confounded and intrigued scholars of Blake. In this paper\, I argue that Blake's engagements with eighteenth century materialist understandings of the mind can illuminate this difficult manuscript. Blake was fascinated and troubled by the evolutionist idea that the human mind might have emerged from fluid matter imbued with the powers of self-organisation. Reading scenes of mental and verbal dissolution in the manuscript against early evolutionary accounts of the development of animal intelligence\, I discuss the ways in which The Four Zoas's disorganised state formally registers how the nervous mind and the sinuous text collaborate in giving unreliable body to thought. Reading The Four Zoas against Erasmus Darwin's vibrant materialist poem The Temple of Nature (1803) on the one hand and Edward Young's important religious poem Night Thoughts (1742-45) on the other\, I show how Blake uses motifs of fluidity and plasticity to uniquely mediate between biology and spirituality in what Northrop Frye called '[t]he greatest abortive masterpiece in English Literature.' \n ||  \nBiography\nTara Lee is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. She received her DPhil from the University of Oxford\, and has articles related to Blake and biology in European Romantic Review\, Studies in Romanticism\, and Romanticism on the Net. She is preparing a monograph on Blake's preformationist aesthetics and his relationship with the rise of organicism and historicism in the eighteenth century. Alongside this\, she is also developing a new project on how real and imaginary machines afforded visionary thinking about revolution\, progress\, and individual agency in the Romantic epic. \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/91353372784?pwd=OVJXMkU5dTBqUUpXZFc1RXR4WlBIZz09 \nMeeting ID: 913 5337 2784\nPassword: 716377
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/selfish-matter-william-blake-and-eighteenth-century-sciences-of-the-mind/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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