And the prize goes to James Stanford (Dartmouth College) for pointing me to 'Gender
identity and lexical variation in social media' in May's JoS
(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/josl.12080/abstract). The authors do some
good theoretical work to develop the original idea of social networks for online
contexts. Some useful findings in there for a lecture, nicely complementing the
historical, offline concept of social networks. Thanks James!
Dave
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Dr. Dave Sayers
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Honorary Research Fellow, Arts & Humanities, Swansea University, UK
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On 05/08/2014 09:46, Dave Sayers wrote:
> Dear etc.,
>
> For those teaching intro sociolinguistics, how do you teach the Milroys' social
> networks model and try to compete with the now ubiquitous new meaning of 'social
> networks', i.e. Twitbook et al, with which students are much more familiar? (An
> entirely separate question is how you STOP THEM USING social networks DURING CLASS.)
>
> Compounding the problem is that Milroy-esque 'social networks' are socially and
> empirically offline phenomena. They could potentially be mapped over to online
> interactions, but this would entail a fair bit of epistemological rejigulating to be
> done properly, I think. I haven't seen any attempts to do that, just this interesting
> LanguageLog post from 2010, http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2369.
>
> Now, this isn't to say there's nothing discussing the effect of the Faceosphere on
> dialects. there is some research emerging about the effect of Facegram et al on
> dialects (Sali Tagliamonte is doing some particularly interesting stuff here) but,
> from what I've seen, nothing specifically trying to develop a synthesis of the
> Milroys' idea of social networks with the new meaning of that term.
>
> So far I've just wearily resorted to a fairly mealy-mouthed parenthetical 'this
> doesn't mean Facebook; the term was developed before the internet was a big thing'.
> (Reaction: before what now?)
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> /Like this post/ etc.
>
> Dave
>
> --
> Dr. Dave Sayers
> Senior Lecturer, Dept Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
> Honorary Research Fellow, Arts & Humanities, Swansea University, UK
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