Researching Language and Social Media

Ruth Page is a Reader at the University of Birmingham in the Department of English Language and Linguistics. She has written several books including Stories and Social Media (Routledge, 2012) and Narratives Online: Shared Stories and Social Media (Cambridge University Press, 2018). She is editor of New Perspectives on Narrative and Multimodality (Routledge, 2010); co-editor of Museum Thresholds: The Design and Media of Arrival (Routledge, 2018).David Barton is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, UK. His research interests include rethinking the nature of literacy. His major publications include Language Online (Routledge, 2013) and Literacy: An Introduction to the Ecology of Written Language (Blackwell, 1994 [2007]).Carmen Lee is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include digital discourse and literacies, multilingualism, and more recently verbal aggression online. Her major publications include Language Online (2013, with David Barton) and Multilingualism Online (2017).Johann W. Unger is a Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, UK. His publications include The Discursive Construction of the Scots Language (John Benjamins, 2013) and chapters in the most recent editions of Methods of Critical Discourse Studies (Sage, 2016) and Qualitative Research (Sage, 2021). His most recent publication is 'Digitally mediated discourse analysis' in Researching Discourse (Routledge, 2020). Michele Zappavigna is Associate Professor in the School of Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales. Her recent books include Searchable Talk: Hashtags and Social Media Metadiscourse (Bloomsbury, 2018), Discourse of Twitter and Social Media (Bloomsbury, 2012). Co-authored books include Discourse and Diversionary Justice (Palgrave, 2018), Modelling Paralanguage Using Systemic Functional Semiotics (Bloomsbury, 2021) and Affiliation and Systemic Functional Linguistics: Negotiating Community (Equinox, forthcoming).