Language in the New Media: Technologies and Ideologies
Keynote speakers
* Naomi S. Baron, professor of linguistics, American University, US
* Jannis Androutsopoulos, reader in sociolinguistics and media discourse, Kings College London, UK
* Theo Van Leeuwen, professor of language and communication, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Call for papers
Papers will be exploring the representation, construction and/or production of language through the technologies and ideologies of new media — the digital discourse of blogs, wikis, texting, instant messaging, internet art, video games, virtual worlds, websites, e-mails, podcasting, hypertext fiction, graphical user interfaces, and so on.
Registration fees
* On or before May 7, 2009
Standard registrant: $350
Full-time student: $300
* After May 7, 2009
Standard registrant: $380
Full-time student: $330
Registrations received after June 18, 2009 are charged a nonrefundable $30 late registration fee, and only processed on a space-available basis.
Publication
The conference organizer is planning to edit a volume provisionally titled “Language in the New Media: Technologies and Ideologies” and is in discussion with the editors of the Oxford University Press’ series Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics. The volume is to be published in 2011. Contributions should be of no more than 7,000 words in length. The deadline for submission of fully completed chapters for review will be March 31, 2010.
