[Air-L] Fwd: symposium

[Lois Scheidt]

For your consideration.

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From: Paulus, Trena M <tpaulus at utk.edu>
Date: Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 4:50 PM
Subject: symposium
To: "lscheidt at indiana.edu" <lscheidt at indiana.edu>, "Herring, Susan
Catherine (herring at indiana.edu)" <herring at indiana.edu>


 Hi! Could you circulate this around IU and/or other organizations? Hope
you are well!



*International Symposium: MOOD-Y (Micro-Analysis Of Online Data in York)*

*University of York, UK, 14-15 July, 2014.*

The analysis of online social behaviours is a vital aspect of contemporary
social science, and it is important that large-scale data analysis is
complemented by the detailed, qualitative analysis of interaction
processes. Through themed presentations of empirical research and
methodological processes on the first day, as well as researcher-led
collaborative data workshops on the second day, the MOOD-Y symposium will
provide a space for developing the theory and methodology of
interaction(al) analysis of online social behaviour.

The symposium will be appropriate for a range of participants, from
specialists in particular analytic perspectives (such as Conversation
Analysis, multimodality, Critical Discourse Analysis and cognate areas) to
qualitative researchers interested in developing their analytic skills in
relation to online data. A substantial aim for the symposium is to further
develop an already flourishing interdisciplinary and international network
of scholars who share an interest in the analysis of online interactional
processes.

The symposium has four invited keynote speakers

-       Wyke Stommel, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

-       Trena Paulus, University of Tennessee, USA

-       Jessica Lester, Indiana University, USA

-       David Giles, The University of Winchester, UK



*Call for papers and participation*

We invite 200-500 word proposals for papers that address the qualitative,
micro-analytic examination of online data in all its forms, including
audio, video and other textual materials. The proposals may deal with
either theoretical or methodological issues relating to this area, and may
include the use of perspectives such as conversation analysis, forms of
discourse analysis, multimodal analysis.

Some indicative paper topics include:

·         Methods for studying interaction in social media (both
synchronous and asynchronous)

·         Using techniques from conversation analysis, discourse analysis
and other forms of interactional analysis to investigate online data

·         Challenges in applying methodologies developed for speech to the
study of interaction through text, images and video

·         Developing methodologies for specific data formats (e.g.
discussion threads; comment fields; music compositions; video contributions)

·         Use of new technologies for data collection, management, analysis
and representation

·         Reports on the findings of an empirical study of online
interaction

·         Discussion of the ethical issues of domain access and data
gathering

·         The relevance of the online/offline divide for the study of
online communities

·         Situating microanalytic techniques within broader research
frameworks



Proposals should be emailed in Word or PDF format to both Darren Reed (
darren.reed at york.ac.uk <Darren.reed at york.ac.uk>) and Will Gibson (
w.gibson at ioe.ac.uk) by the end of April 30th 2014. Proposals should include
a title, a 200-500 word abstract, as well as the name, institutional
affiliation, email address and contact telephone number of the
presenter(s). If there is more than one author or presenter named on the
abstract please indicate which is the correspondence author.

The symposium will be hosted at the University of York and will be
organised over two days with keynote presentations on each of the days.





-- 
Lois Ann Scheidt
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Information & Library Science, School of Informatics &
Computing
Indiana University, Bloomington IN USA
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