Olivia InwoodWestern Sydney University · Library Academic and Research Services
Olivia Inwood
PhD - Social Media and Linguistics
Research interests: systemic functional linguistics, literacy, generative AI in education, social media data
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Introduction
Academic Literacy Coordinator - Western Sydney University, Library Academic and Research Services.
PhD Graduate from UNSW Sydney - “A Discourse-Analytic Approach to the Study of Information Disorders: How Online Communities Legitimate Social Bonds When Communing Around Misinformation and Disinformation” (2023).
Research interests/methodologies: SFL, NLP, academic literacy, generative AI in education, social media data/media studies, multimodality, corpus linguistics, information disorders.
Education
February 2019 - May 2023
Field of study
- Systemic Functional Linguistics, Social Media, Media and Communication Studies, Discourse and Pragmatics
Publications
Publications (13)
This book explores how both elite and non-elite actors frame societal threats such as the refugee crisis and COVID-19 using both digital and traditional media. It also explores ways in which the framing of these issues as threatening can be challenged using these platforms.
People typically experience societal threats such as war and terrorism thr...
Information disorders have become prevalent concerns in current social media research. This thesis is focused on the interpersonal dimension of information disorders, in other words, how we can trace, through linguistic and multimodal analysis, the social bonding that occurs when online communities commune around misinformation and disinformation,...
Misinformation and hate speech are prevalent issues in social media research, as well as the rise of far-right extremists, white supremacists, and conspiracy theorists. In response to these concerns about unethical behavior on social media, this article explores how underlying social bonds proposed by conspiracists are discursively negotiated in Yo...
A particular target of gossip in the digital age is the ‘celebrity politician’, that is, politicians whose private life is scrutinised in similar ways to that of traditional celebrities, with similar issues foregrounded, such as their appearance and the state of their marriage or relationships. This chapter details a social semiotic method for unde...
This chapter explores a dataset of YouTube video comments about the ‘ID2020’ conspiracy theory, which claims that Bill Gates is part of a global conspiracy to mandate a COVID-19 vaccine incorporating a tracking microchip. This conspiracy theory merges religious discourses about the ‘Mark of the Beast’, with discourses about quantum dot and blockcha...
Since the 2016 US Presidential Election, extreme right-wing communities have gained extensive popularity on YouTube, spreading discourses of white supremacy and conspiracy. This paper focuses on how methods drawn from Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) can be used to analyze this communication and contribute to research interests within the fiel...
In pandemic times, journalists and cultural commentators have coined the term ‘meta selfie’ to describe a new type of selfie emerging that features selfies within selfies, centres the mobile phone screen in the image and highlights the irony of taking selfies. This study aims to develop a social semiotic method for analysing the ‘meta-meta selfie’....
In pandemic times, journalists and cultural commentators have coined the term ‘meta selfie’ to describe a new type of selfie emerging that features selfies within selfies, centres the mobile phone screen in the image and highlights the irony of taking selfies. This study aims to develop a social semiotic method for analysing the ‘meta-meta selfie’....
YouTube has become notoriously associated with extreme right-wing communities that spread discourses of white supremacy and conspiracy. This study applies a social semiotic approach to analysing conspiratorial YouTube videos created by white supremacists in response to the Notre Dame Fire of 2019. In particular, this study applies a combined legiti...
Deceptive communication and misinformation are crucial issues that are currently having a significant impact on social life. Parallel to the important work of identifying misinformation on digital platforms is understanding why such material proliferates. One approach to answering this question is to attempt to understand the values that are being...
Recent work on algorithmic bias has shown that understanding the values embedded in technology design processes is important for avoiding social harm. This paper explores the attitudes construed in whitepapers of blockchain technology start-ups. Blockchain technology is a relatively new phenomenon that has informed discourses about the future of go...
Blockchain technology is a relatively new phenomenon that has informed many discourses regarding the future of governance, economics, and the internet. However, current research has tended to generalise the politics of blockchain technology and has not considered the ideologically diverse blockchain start-up companies that have recently emerged. Th...
