Presentations
MAG 2019: Rosa Lorés and Isabel Herrando-Rodrigo discuss new identity markers in digital texts
With the aim to problematize metadiscourse as a framework for the study of writer’s identity and voice, Dr Herrando-Rodrigo and Dr Lorés-Sanz investigated writers’ visibility in a corpus of websites. Their results showed that new markers had to be identified to explore how e-visibility was constructed and projected and that three types could be identified:…
Read MoreA-MODE 2019: Isabel Corona talks about newsworthiness in project homepages from the lens of multimodality
The A-Mode international conference (Aproaches to Multimodal Digital Environments: from theories to practices) took place at the University of “Tor Vergata” (Rome) from 22th to 24th June 2019. The conference was a great venue to discuss the up-to-date issue of multimodal digital communication and keynote sessions included the participation of our InterGedi colleague Marina Bondi,…
Read MoreADDA2 2019: Daniel Pascual analyses the use of Twitter as a networking mechanism for international research groups
Daniel Pascual participated in the 2nd ADDA (Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis) international conference organised at the University of Turku, Finland (23-25 May 2019). This forum provided wonderful insights into digital discourses in new genres, media and platforms, including social media. Daniel presented a preliminary study of the interrelationship between Twitter and research project websites,…
Read MorePG Tips Predoctoral Seminar at CARE (Centre of Advanced Research in English)
Dr Isabel Herrando-Rodrigo was invited to participate in a PG Tips Predoctoral Seminar at CARE (Centre of Advanced Research in English), University of Birmingham (UK), March 5, 2019. Herrando-Rodrigo, Isabel: “A research (hi)story of writers’ visibility; from written academic discourse to digital genres (and back to discourse)” This research seminar was addressed to doctoral students…
Read MoreIX BIFI National Conference Tools for a future research career
Dr Ramón Plo-Alastrué was invited to give a student workshop in the IX BIFI National Conference Tools for a future research career held at the Instituto Universitario de Investigación de Biocomputación y Física de Sistemas Complejos, Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain), January 30 – February 1, 2019. Plo-Alastrué, Ramón: “Giving a scientific presentation in English: Survival…
Read MoreJornadas de Innovación AngloTIC 2018: Isabel Herrando explores how variables can shape writers’ identity
Isabel Herrando-Rodrigo was invited to participate at the Jornadas de Innovación AngloTIC at the Universidad de Valencia (Spain), the days 20th and 21st November, 2018. Isabel’s talk, which was titled “Do genre and context shape writers’ identity in scientific English texts?”, aimed at raising awareness on how variables, such as genre and situational context, shape…
Read MoreMETM’18: Oliver Shaw’s workshop on the discussion section in research articles.
Oliver Shaw conducted a workshop about the discussion section in academic research articles for the Mediterranean Editors and Translators Meeting (MEMT) that took place the 5th of October in Girona (Spain). His workshop was titled “The discussion section in academic research articles: patterns, practices and insights for editors and translators”, and the full abstract can…
Read More14th ESSE 2018: Transferring knowledge within academic and institutional contexts: A focus on new and hybrid digital genres
Herrando-Rodrigo, Isabel: “Who’s talking to me?: The construction of writers’ identity in digital academic genres” Abstract Nowadays Internet has become the platform which everybody resorts to when suffering from a health problem. This urgent need to find out medical information (Herrando-Rodrigo, 2014) has led institutions and mass media publications to craft a new digital genre…
Read More14th ESSE 2018: Transferring knowledge within academic and institutional contexts: A focus on new and hybrid digital genres
Corona, Isabel: “A window to the world: Visual design and research visibility of European research projects homepages” Abstract The growth and specialization of scientific output and the increasing prevalence of transnational collaborative efforts in academia have led researchers to seek greater visibility within a highly competitive playing field, while creating a need to optimize the…
Read More14th ESSE 2018: Transferring knowledge within academic and institutional contexts: A focus on new and hybrid digital genres
Rosa Lorés-Sanz (InterGedi) and Giuliana Diani (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italia) organized the Seminar “Transferring knowledge within academic and institutional contexts: A focus on new and hybrid digital genres” at the 14th ESSE Conference, which took place in Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic), August 29-September 2, 2018. In this Seminar, two other members…
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