A/Prof Michele Zappavigna

Been updating my website with pre-proof versions of articles etc. to try and make my research more accessible. Email me for any official copies! michelezappavigna.com

@SuminZhao Didn’t Halliday end up living in Manly? So maybe there are sunny beaches in your future! ☀️🌞🕶️

P.s I just recently found out that Wangli was a student of Yuanren Zhao (趙元任). So yes, it’s my fate ending up in this rainy and cold place. Remember not to complain and accept your fate… 🥶🥶🤪😅

When I was living in the International House (a residential college of Usyd), there was a photo of six Chinese linguistic students hanging in the common room. They were the first group of Chinese students who studied overseas after the Cultural Revolution. They received training

JOB OPPORTUNITIES: 3 in Assistant Professor positions in Digital Media and Communications, at the University of Birmingham. Closing date: 4 April. See: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat… + edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat… + edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

@LukeCCollins @logi_lorenzo Thank you! 😁

@logi_lorenzo and I received exciting mail today!

Emoji and Social Media Paralanguage by Michele Zappavigna - @M_Zappavigna and Lorenzo Logi - @logi_lorenzo Including a range of examples, this book provides a framework for analysing how emoji make meaning in social media discourse. 📚 cup.org/3RYgM3W

There has been a lot of chatter about lived/living EXPERIENCE vs lived/living EXPERTISE. Last of the publications from former student (now DR) Giselle Newton's PhD project is out now on the rights and needs of donor-conceived people sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@olivia_inwood Not bragging at all! And you are a fantastic teacher!

Hope this tweet doesn't come across as bragging too much, I just wanted to share this story to make a broader point about #academicliteracy...this weekend I received an email from a student I taught 2 years ago (1/5)

New article out with Joshua Han - “Multimodal rhythm in TikTok videos: Exploring a recontextualization of the Gillard ‘misogyny speech’” doi.org/10.1177/263497…

@Letizia_Paglia @2023Adda4 Thank you! 🙏

Brilliant talk by @M_Zappavigna today at #ADDA4 ☺️ What a great start! @2023Adda4

@SuminZhao Lucky students!

I was first introduced to Multimodality in a reading group in 2003. Can't believe it took me 20 years to finally run my own course, thanks to all my talented departmental colleagues and their amazing expertise! Isn't this the coolest course like EVER! 🥹🥹🥹

Very proud of Dr Olivia Inwood - congratulations on your graduation today! 🎓🎉🎉🎉 @olivia_inwood

@TorrentTiago Thanks! Not at this conference but your talk sounds very interesting! I hope it went well!

Some of my preliminary thoughts on AI & corpus analysis in Journal of Applied Corpus Linguistics authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S26…

@annefjhellwig @Lingitude @contacthelen This looks excellent! Look forward to reading in more detail!

Shoutout to the fabulous @LJRavelli for being an amazing scholarly mentor and example of how to remain a genuinely good human in the academy! 🙌

My PhD was officially conferred today! If you would like to read a copy of my thesis you can access it here: unsworks.unsw.edu.au/entities/publi… #research #informationdisorders #linguistics #SFL #multimodality #socialsemiotics #misinformation #disinformation #socialmedia

@AwniEtaywe19 and I have a new article - ‘The role of social affiliation in incitement: A social semiotic approach to far-right terrorists’ incitement to violence’: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

World-leading social media researcher Michele Zappavigna (UNSW Sydney) will deliver an online talk on "Emoji as paralanguage" at the @unihh-funded DiLCo Lecture Series on Thursday, 11 May, 11 am CEST. Free and easy registration here: dilco.uni-hamburg.de/activities/lec…

Dr Newton's PhD thesis 'Everyday belongings Exploring Australian donor-conceived adults’ social, linguistic and digital practices across private and public domains' is an excellent piece of scholarship: unsworks.unsw.edu.au/entities/publi…

@Carotagg @JaiMackenzie @tamsinparnell Big congrats from me too!

@JaiMackenzie @M_Zappavigna @tamsinparnell Congrats Jai - a fab read and important stuff!