Media/Digital Communication

Associations

National Communication Association (NCA) Advances Communication as the discipline that studies all forms, modes, media, and consequences of communication through humanistic, social scientific, and aesthetic inquiry.

Association of Internet Researchers An academic association dedicated to the advancement of the cross-disciplinary field of Internet studies.

Major international journals

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Language, Learning & Technology

Online articles

ICTs in Africa: Digital Divide to Digital Opportunity Data on Developments for the ICT Sector in Africa.

Gender and Democracy in Computer-Mediated Communication Evaluation of the claim that computers democratize communication.

The Data-Driven Life New York Times article on the uses of data.

Twelve years of measuring linguistic diversity in the Internet: balance and perspectives Reviews the methodological issues of linguistic diversity in the internet.

Txting is for people who can’t spell, write? Wrong Caroline Tagg’s blogpost in The Guardian's 'Mind your Language' blog, which highlights continuities between old and new technologies and tries to calm 'media panic' about the effect of social media on language.

Lingua Digitalis ...or how to do things with *keystrokes This collection of blog posts and press stories collected by social media researcher Erika Darics provide varied and interesting insights into language and social media.

The Language of Blogs Keep up with Professor Greg Myers' work into language and social media on his blog, including his work on how scientists use Twitter, with useful references.

A Life Lived in Media Proposing a view of life not lived with media, but in media.

Tweet, Tweet, Retweet: Conversational Aspects of Retweeting on Twitter A study of emerging stylistic variation in retweeting.

Beyond Microblogging: Conversation and Collaboration via Twitter A study analyzing a corpus of naturally-occurring public Twitter messages (tweets), focusing on the functions and uses of the @ sign and the coherence of exchanges.

Twitter Study Reveals Interesting Results About Usage – 40% is Pointless Babble A study of how people are using and consuming Twitter.

Mobility, New Social Intensities, and the Coordinates of Digital Networks Concerned with documenting, and beginning to think through, the new mobile intensities allowed by digital networks.

Research projects

Edwardian Postcard Project A fascinating insight into a forgotten (yet once very popular) means of communication.

Virtual Society? Home page for the Virtual Society? Research programme – long list of projects, key findings, links.

Useful websites

Language@Internet An open-access, peer-reviewed, scholarly electronic journal that publishes original research on language and language use mediated by the Internet, the World Wide Web, and mobile technologies.

Twictionary: The Dictionary for Twitter A repository for the meanings and manglings of words and language on Twitter.

Twittonary.com The Twitter Dictionary aka Twittonary provides explanations of various Twitter related words.

Evaluating Language Statistics: The Ethnologue and Beyond Report prepared for the UNESCO Institute for Statistics.

Mapping Cyberspace Website running alongside Dodge and Kitchin’s book, with an amazing gallery of maps and depictions of cyberspace.

Tamagotchi World website With lots of info on virtual pets and the culture of their owners.

Vmyths Excellent site focusing on hoaxes and myths around computer viruses, confirming their status as ‘urban legends’.

Rheingold.com Howard Rheingold’s website dedicated to his study of digital culture, with articles, archives, and links.

Nicholas Carr.com  A selection of articles, essays, and reviews about technology and culture.

Interactive people's history of the internet, 1969-2009 The Guardian internet timeline gives a good overview of the history of the internet.

Internet History 1962 to 1992 The History of the Internet Museum is a good site around which to browse if you are interested in the subject.

Health and Professional Communication

Associations

International Associaton of Business Communicators (IABC) A global network of communication professionals committed to improving organizational effectiveness through strategic communication.

Society for Technical Communication A professional association dedicated to the advancement of technical communication.

Association for Business Communication (ABC) An international, interdisciplinary organization committed to advancing business communication research, education, and practice.

American Academy on Communication in Healthcare (AACH) The professional home for all those who are committed to improving communication and relationships in healthcare.

National Communication Association (NCA) Advances Communication as the discipline that studies all forms, modes, media, and consequences of communication through humanistic, social scientific, and aesthetic inquiry.

IEEE Communications Society (COMSOC) A diverse group of global industry professionals with a common interest in advancing all communications technologies.

European Association for Communication in Healthcare (EACH) A worldwide charitable organisation to promote effective evidence-based patient-centred healthcare communication between patients, relatives and healthcare practitioners throughout Europe and beyond.

Conferences

International Conference on Communication in Healthcare (ICCH) Sharing the latest research and teaching methods related to communication and relationships in healthcare.

International Conference on Communication, Medicine and Ethics (COMET) Brings together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds involving various healthcare specialties and the human and social sciences.

International Roundtable and Symposium on Healthcare Communication Promoting compassionate healthcare, attention to core values and skilled communication in different healthcare settings around the world.

Major international journals

Business and Professional Communication Quarterly
Journal of Communication in Healthcare
Journal of Health Communication
Journal of Healthcare Communications
Journal of International Business Studies
The Journal of Business Communication

Online articles

Health literacy and public health: A systematic review and integration of definitions and models Review of definitions and models on health literacy.

Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion Examines the body of knowledge that applies to the field of health literacy.

Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care A study of Racial and ethnic disparities in health care.

Research centres

Research Centre for Professional Communication in English (RCPCE) Pursuing applied research and consultancy so as to deepen our understanding of professional communication in English and better serve the communication needs of professional communities.

International Research Centre for Communication in Healthcare (IRCCH) IRCCH was established in response to the now irrefutable evidence that communication is central to effective and safe healthcare delivery.

Research projects

International Commercial Arbitration Practices: A Discourse Analytical Study a project to investigate the extent to which the integrity of arbitration principles is maintained in arbitration practice.

Useful websites

The Pyramid Group a leading global provider of specialist English Training (ESP), e.g. English for the Legal, Medical, Technical, HR, Insurance, Maritime, Logistics and Construction sectors.

Multimodality, Semiotics and Pragmatics

Major international journals

Journal of Multimodal Communication Studies
Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces
Journal of Pragmatics
Multimodal Communication
Pragmatics
Pragmatics and Society
Semiotica
Social Semiotics
Visual Communication

Lines of Communication is a podcast on media and communication studies. On this program, author of Semiotics: The Basics 3ed (2017) Daniel Chandler makes an appearance.

Programs and tools

UAM Image Tool A state-of-the-art environment for annotation of image corpora.

ANVIL A free video annotation tool.

Research centres

Multimodal Analysis Lab Develops new approaches to the analysis of images, videos and websites using interactive digital media technology.

Institute for Research and Innovation (IRI) An independent research association which investigates the field of cultural and cognitive technologies from a digital humanities points of view.

The Multimodal Research Centre Made up of researchers at Auckland University of Technology interlinked with an extensive national and international network.

MODE Develops multimodal methodologies for social scientists, providing systematic ways to investigate all modes of communication used in digital environments, whether they are sites of learning, work, or ‘social’ sites (e.g. Facebook).

Research projects

CAQDAS Networking Project Practical support, training and information in the use of a range of software programs designed to assist qualitative data analysis.

Useful websites

Daniel Chandler’s website for the original Semiotics: The Basics is available here in seven languages. Although this website is not applicable to the current edition of Semiotics, we would highly recommend Daniel’s online glossary.

The Multimodal Analysis Company Specializes in “multimodal analytics” — the study of the integration of language, visual and audio resources in documents, images, videos, websites, consumer goods and buildings for teaching, learning and research purposes.

ImageNet An image database organized according to the WordNet hierarchy (currently only the nouns), in which each node of the hierarchy is depicted by hundreds and thousands of images.

Conferences

International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) | Grammar and Pragmatics | University of Antwerp (uantwerpen.be)

Discourse and Critical Discourse Analysis

Major international journals

Critical Approaches to Discourse
Critical Discourse Studies
Discourse & Communication
Discourse and Society
Discourse Processes
Discourse Studies
Discourse, Context and Media

Online articles

The Idiolect of Donald Trump This article in Scientific American was written by Routledge author Jennifer Sclafani, whose recent publication Talking Donald Trumpis already garnering international attention.

This linguist studied the way Trump speaks for two years. Here’s what she found. This Washington Post article features a video of Routledge author Jennifer Sclafani and quotes her research in detail.

The two-word phrase President Trump relies on most This article from CNN uses Jennifer Sclafani’s research extensively.

Surface and Depth: Racial Populism and Antisemitism in British Fascist Discourse John Richardson’s talk and accompanying Powerpoint slides from the ‘British Fascism, Anti-Fascism and Jewish Defence’ conference in London.

John Terry case: racist abuse or sarcastic banter? A court case to decide whether or not a white footballer’s banter was racist.

Right-wing populism is surging on both sides of the Atlantic – here’s why A column from Ruth Wodak on the rise of right wing populism

Programs and tools

WordSmith Tools An accessible and easy to use program which has been widely employed in discourse analytic corpus-based research.

AntConc Another extremely accessible program which features all the staple corpus tools. Can be downloaded and used free of charge.

Wmatrix Allows users to conduct a range of corpus operations. The program will also tag data into semantic themes and parts of speech. Comes with a useful tutorial which provides an effective introduction to the software. The program is free to use for the first month.

BNCweb Like AntConc this is a freely available and easy to use piece of software which gives access to the British National Corpus (BNC). It also has a useful tutorial for beginners.

Useful websites

http://www.discourses.org/ features Teun A. van Dijk’s personal publications, some of which can be downloaded for free, alongside many helpful resources.

‘Sounds Familar?’ Accents and dialects of the UK The British Library’s website about the accents and dialects of the UK.

Timeline of the English language Also from the British Library, this provides an interactive timeline of the history of English and key texts produced in the language.

Discourseanalysis.net The interactive web site for all those working on language and society.

Journalism and Discourse Studies An online, open access, peer reviewed journal for interdisciplinary research in the areas of journalism, discourse studies and broader disciplines concerning media, culture, politics and society.

Other links

Links for books

Multilingual Mediated Communication and Cognition

• the MC2 Lab: https://mc2.ditlab.it/
• the TREC network: https://pagines.uab.cat/trec/

Links for Oral Literacies:

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/research/projects/reading-aloud-britain-today

National Communication Association (NCA) Advances Communication as the discipline that studies all forms, modes, media, and consequences of communication through humanistic, social scientific, and aesthetic inquiry.

Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) An American association promoting language learning and cultural understanding through research, resources, and policy analysis.
A society dedicated to the study of the English language in North America.

American Association for Applied Linguistics A professional organization of scholars who are interested in and actively contribute to the multi-disciplinary field of applied linguistics.

International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA) An international federation of national and regional associations of Applied Linguistics.

British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) A professional association based in the UK, for people interested in language and applied linguistics.

Major international journals

Applied Linguistics
ELT Journal
Communication Monographs
Communication Reports
Communication Studies
English Today
English World-Wide
Howard Journal of Communications
International Journal of Applied Linguistics
Journal of Asia-Pacific Communication
Journal of Communication
Journal of Language and Politics
Journal of Language and Social Psychology
Journal of Sociolinguistics
Language Awareness
Language and Communication
Language, Culture and Curriculum
Language in Society
Multillingua
Narrative Inquiry
Research on Language and Social Interaction
TESOL Quarterly
TEXT
Western Journal of Communication
Written Communication

Media

The Routledge Linguistics Youtube Channel with videos from leading figures in Language and Communication including David Crystal.

Online articles

Language: A Feminist Guide a feminist blog about language (in fact, mostly the English language), written by a feminist who’s also a linguist.

Useful websites

David Crystal’s Introduction to Language The companion website for David Crystal’s Introduction to Language: A Complete Course.