Our participation in the “I, Expert” conference in Chemnitz

Several members of the InterGedi team participated in the “I, Expert” conference at the Technische Universität Chemnitz (Germany) that was celebrated on the 7th and 8th of October 2024. This conference is part of the “I, Expert: Media competence for science through linguistics” project, sponsored by the DAAD research programme, and is led by Dr. Marina Ivanova together with a team of researchers at the English Department of the Faculty of Humanities at TU Chemnitz (read more about the DAAD program and our collaboration with the TU Chemnitz team here).

The main aim of the “I, Expert” conference was to explore a variety of recontextualisation practices in science communication as well as the discourse and multimodal analysis of different science communication genres. For this, participants shared their own experiences and research in media and science communication. After providing a clear and informative overview of the new science communication genres that have arisen during the last 2o years, the participating researchers from TU Chemnitz focused on some specific ones that were of high interest. These include press releases and different social media for disseminating science and linguistic research, Science Media Centre articles from a sentiment and corpus linguistics analysis perspective, different gesture studies for science communication, data picnics and the use of linguistic terminology in lingcomm.

On the other hand, the members of the InterGedi team who participated presented the SciDis project and its database (presented by Ana E. Sancho Ortiz), and delved into the dynamics of specific practices which we have collected and analysed so far. The science communication practices from the SciDis Database which were observed and explored during this event include feature articles and research digests (presented by Dr. Rosa Lorés), Ask an Expert websites (by Dr. Daniel Pascual), research dissemination texts focused on the subject area of economy from the SciDis sub-corpus (by Dr. Pilar Mur Dueñas), podcasts focused on psychology (by Alba Ansó Millán) and the use of emojis as engagement devices (by Dr. Silvia Murillo), these latest relying on the EUROPRO tweets corpus from our previous project.

If you’d like to read more about the talks that took place during the conference, you can find the abstracts here.

We would like to express our gratitude once again to our TU Chemnitz colleagues for such an enriching experience. We will see you next at the “I, Expert” Autumn School that will take place from the 19th to the 21st of November!