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ERIC Number: EJ1284009
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 18
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ISSN: ISSN-0143-4632
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Working with Mediagrams: A Methodology for Collaborative Research on Mediational Repertoires in Multilingual Families
Lexander, Kristin Vold; Androutsopoulos, Jannis
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, v42 n1 p1-18 2021
This paper contributes to current sociolinguistic research on the rapidly-changing landscape of digitally mediated communication (Androutsopoulos and Staehr 2018) by presenting mediagrams, a new method for research on transnational mediated interaction. Based on an ethnographic study of mediated multilingual communication in four families with Senegalese-background living in Norway, we develop a visualisation scheme for the documentation and analysis of individual mediational repertoires. Starting with a review of visualisations used in relevant research and an outline of the context of our study, we present the production of mediagrams as a collaborative research process and their subsequent use in further data collection and analysis. Based on participants' language portraits, media maps, and self-selected excerpts of digital conversations, the collected data is coded and visualised in graphs that represent individual networks of interlocutors, language choices, language modalities, and media channels. Follow-up interviews lead to amended versions of mediagrams, which eventually form the basis for the analysis of individual mediational repertoires. In concluding we assess mediagram research as a contribution to citizen sociolinguistics (Svendsen 2018) and discuss blind spots of the method and its potential for wider application.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Norway; Senegal
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