Digital Communication: Identity and Visibility in Research Dissemination

December 9th-10th, 2021
Department of English and German Studies Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

Plenary Speakers

Registration

Registration for the InterGedi2021 International Conference is free for both participants and attendees.

Scope

Communication of research is changing and expanding –possibly faster than ever– towards international and digital environments. The increasing demands of this highly competitive scenario situate researchers and their work in a new global, multimodal dimension, where a number of emerging trends can be perceived; thus, in this glocalized context, emphasis is laid

• on international collaboration, leading to a growing participatory culture, but also fostering each scholar’s individual role and the need to retain their personal and professional identities;

• on a tendency towards open science with demands of greater transparency of processes and availability of tools and resources. In this area, the use of social media and multimodal communication has brought about an unprecedented visibility of the researcher and a wider dissemination of results but also the appearance of challenges in the traditional copyright or peer-review systems;

• on the reformulation/reconceptualization of scientific research through popularization practices, aimed at a more heterogeneous audience, but often coexisting with the rapid dissemination of vulgarized science or non-validated knowledge through the same channels.

Increasingly, scholars and researchers must acquire and maximize developing professional and discursive practices in relation to these emerging forms of digital communication. This process generally involves a number of adaptations, such as a more active and personal role of the researchers in the process of communication of results, their current aim to reach multiple audiences and the need to master the genres, uses and conventions associated with specific platforms and online environments.

We would like to trace and analyse these trends related to the digital communication of science and explore their area of confluence. More specifically, the InterGedi conference aims at gathering current research on the practices related to the construction of digital identity and visibility, the emerging conflicts related to the public availability and appropriation of scientific culture and the ways of validating and disseminating scientific knowledge in this new context.

Strands of Research

InterGedi 2021 invites to submit proposals in the following areas:

1. Reconceptualization of genre(s) in scholarly and scientific digital practices
2. Discursive, Multimodal, and Pragmatic studies of identity and visibility in web-mediated texts
3. Promotion of public engagement in a participatory scientific culture
4. Scientific knowledge dissemination through social media
5. From popularization to vulgarization of science: implications of the dissemination of non-validated knowledge

Format and Venue

The event is organised by the InterGedi research group, based in the Department of English and German Studies at Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain). The conference will be held online via the platform Zoom. 

Conference Publication

After the conference, a selection of the proposals resulting from the Conference and accepted through peer-review evaluation will be published in an edited volume.

 

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Scientific Committee

Organising Commitee

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