AILA Research Network Launches Virtual Brisbane Pre-Panel
Time is a scarce resource in academia, especially at conferences. This is why the convenors of the Brisbane panel of the AILA Research Network on Media Linguistics launched a 10-week pre-conference series of on-line interventions. The main objective of the series is to initiate a preliminary exploration of the panel themes, allowing for greater focus and enhanced synergy at the conference. In addition, new researchers can be attracted to the panel.
Every week one member of the AILA Research Network on Media Linguistics and/or contributor to the Brisbane panel has uploaded a pechakucha presentation on a designated YouTube channel. Pechakucha (Japanese: ペチャクチャ) is a concise and fast-paced presentation format (originally devised in 2003 by Tokyo-based architects Klein and Dytham) in which 20 slides are shown for 20 seconds each (amounting to 6 minutes and 40 seconds in total). The first (‘launch’) presentation was delivered on 2 June by one of the two panel convenors, Geert Jacobs. The last (‘wrap-up’) presentation is scheduled on 4 August and will be delivered by the other panel convenor, Daniel Perrin. Each week the pechakuchas will be uploaded on Monday and, using the YouTube social network comment management system, the floor will be open to an on-line discussion. In the opening session of the panel at the Brisbane conference, the convenors will present a summary of the on-line interventions.
The Brisbane panel of the AILA Research Network on Media Linguistics focuses on transmodal text production in journalistic media as both a socially relevant field of language use and as a strategic field of applied linguistics (for a detailed announcement see, e.g., InJAL 2014, 1/24, p. 141). The presentations provide insights into scientific projects in the emerging field of media linguistics. From empirical micro and theoretical macro perspectives, strategies and practices of research development and knowledge transformation are discussed.
Watch the pechakucha presentations