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Milene Oliveira

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Sociolinguistics, digital communication, digital Interculturality, Newcastle University, mendesdeoliveira.com

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Developing Critical AI Language Literacyβ€”prompting experiments on raciolinguistic bias to understand large language models as cultural artefacts - AI & SOCIETY Understanding how AI and constructions of race intersect and which new ethical dilemmas arise in this context has become pressing. In this article, we introduce a university pedagogical project centre...

Here's a new article, which I had the pleasure to co-author with Britta Schneider: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

14.11.2025 17:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Our review & reflection on Blommaert's 'Durkheim and the Internet' (2018) and 'Online with Garfinkel' (2019). If you get a chance to take a look, we'd love to hear your thoughts. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

29.10.2025 09:03 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Yes, please! πŸ˜€

04.09.2025 09:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I’ll be presenting at the @baal-linguistics.bsky.social Conference this Friday (5:30 pm).

My paper, co-authored with Daniel N. Silva, examines students’ reflections on social interactions during a virtual project in relation to neoliberal discourses.

If you’re at #BAAL2025, do stop by!

02.09.2025 08:26 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“˜ Explorations in Digital Interculturality

Here’s how Luisa Conti and I responded to transcript verlag’s questions about our edited volume on language, culture & postdigital practices (I loved the 4th question! ☺️)

Interview & open-access volume πŸ‘‰ www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-7...

01.09.2025 20:34 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Our edited volume on digital interculturality is out. It's been such a pleasant journey to work together with colleagues from different disciplines and to look at digital interculturality from so many theoretical and empirical angles. Do make sure to check it out.

14.08.2025 11:20 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@redico.eu @fergallenehan.bsky.social

02.07.2025 17:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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🧐 A sneak peek at the introduction to "Explorations in Digital interculturality"
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
It will be available soon! Stay tuned!

02.07.2025 17:32 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Our new book is forthcoming this summer, so stay tuned!
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

30.06.2025 06:59 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

@redico.eu , @fergallenehan.bsky.social

29.06.2025 12:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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🚩Explorations in digital interculturality - forthcoming volume with chapters by D. Busch, B. Schneider & B. Migge, J. Yudytska & J. Androutsopoulos, A. Georgakopoulou, D. Silva, N. Thielemann & Z. Savych, and the ReDICo team.
#sociolinguistics #interculturality
By @transcript-verlag.bsky.social

29.06.2025 11:42 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Re-reading this gem while prepping for my 'English in the World' session tomorrow.
And @redico.eu , check out my note from a year ago! 😁

25.03.2025 21:10 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Counter-demonstrators stop neo-Nazi march

Far-right members gathered in several cities across Germany. In Berlin, they were met by 2,000 counter-demonstrators.

22.03.2025 21:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Pluricentricity and Pluriareality This edited collection approaches the contentious debate around pluricentricity vs pluriareality of standard language varieties and their distribution. With a focus on English, German, and Dutch, this...

Not that I know of.. but there are studies on the pluricentricity/pluriareality of German. E.g.: benjamins.com/catalog/silv...

17.03.2025 09:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There's a version in english, too

15.03.2025 12:36 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

English version of the documentary about power abuse in the Max Planck Society can be found here. 144.000 views already, more than 800 comments. Share it to make colleagues aware of what happens in German academia & the MPG! #IchBinHanna #PowerAbuse

14.03.2025 08:38 πŸ‘ 164 πŸ” 82 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 13
Angeschrien, gemobbt, gedemΓΌtigt: Machtmissbrauch an Max-Planck-Instituten | DW Reporter
Angeschrien, gemobbt, gedemΓΌtigt: Machtmissbrauch an Max-Planck-Instituten | DW Reporter YouTube video by DW Deutsch

Mobbing and misconduct are symptoms of bigger structural problems. I'm happy to see this coming out.
youtu.be/cAL4mX646rU?...

15.03.2025 12:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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🌏 Melisa Stevanovic and I explored interpretative repertoires used by German and Chinese students (home and exchange students, respectively) when writing about their interactional experiences in a virtual game. Our reflections and findings can be found here: doi.org/10.1515/mult... Open access.

13.03.2025 22:48 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If only my writer's block would yield similar results... πŸ˜„
But seriously: I enjoyed every part of the chapter, including the discussion on research ethics at the end.

13.03.2025 21:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Loving this! Thanks, @theresaheyd.bsky.social !
To be found here: www.jbe-platform.com/content/book...

13.03.2025 15:30 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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UK #languageEducation faces a lot of critical challenges, and on Saturday 29th March, the Coalition for Language Education are discussing ways forward.

Programme for "Together Across Sectors for the Future of Language Education" attached.

Book a place at coalitionforlanguageducationuk.com/events/.

01.03.2025 12:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Book cover "Fergal Lenehan, Roman Lietz (eds.)
Reimagining Digital Cosmopolitanism: Perspectives from a Postmigrant and Postdigital World" Image showing miniature people slacklining out of a laptop screen into another. Open access. [transcript] Studies in Digital Interculturality

Book cover "Fergal Lenehan, Roman Lietz (eds.) Reimagining Digital Cosmopolitanism: Perspectives from a Postmigrant and Postdigital World" Image showing miniature people slacklining out of a laptop screen into another. Open access. [transcript] Studies in Digital Interculturality

Our #OpenAccess ebook is live! "Reimagining Digital Cosmopolitanism: Perspectives from a Postmigrant and Postdigital World" edited by @fergallenehan.bsky.social & Roman Lietz. @transcript-verlag.bsky.social
πŸ”— www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/5c...
See the chapters in this 🧡 and check it out.
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10.02.2025 18:34 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
Vacancy β€” PhD position: Recording in social interaction Are you looking for a PhD position in the field of communication? Do you have a background in conversation analysis, interactional-, or sociolinguistics? Are you fascinated by the impact of smartphone...

Fully funded 4-year PhD with me at VU Amsterdam #emca workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...

28.01.2025 18:22 πŸ‘ 75 πŸ” 53 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

The honeymoon phase of culture shock: when even filling out a missing baggage form feels oddly delightful.

25.12.2024 17:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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🫠

25.12.2024 17:27 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Newcastle upon Tyne, here we go! πŸ’ͺ🏽

24.12.2024 08:31 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Sociolinguistics of hope: Language between the no-more and the not-yet | Language in Society | Cambridge Core Sociolinguistics of hope: Language between the no-more and the not-yet - Volume 53 Issue 5

NEW #OA FROM 53(5)

"Sociolinguistics of hope: Language between the no-more and the not-yet" by Daniel N. Silva, Rodrigo Borba

#SociolinguisticsOfHope #Affect #PracticalReason #LanguageIdeology #Ethnography
doi.org/10.1017/S004...

23.12.2024 14:59 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Door of a subway seen from the inside closing automatically with a flashing red light

Door of a subway seen from the inside closing automatically with a flashing red light

Universities all over Europe are cutting language programs and closing the doors to the world. We want to get a more complete picture: where, when, why?
If you know of any such cases, please tell us (and share the link with your language and linguistics contacts)!
elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...

13.12.2024 14:35 πŸ‘ 272 πŸ” 217 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 19

13 years ago, I left Brazil to move to Germany. Now, I’m doing it againβ€”this time from Germany to the UK. On Sunday, my family and I will say β€œTschΓΌss” to Berlin and β€œhello” to Newcastle upon Tyne. I can’t get enough of β€˜interculturality,’ apparently! πŸ˜…

18.12.2024 20:06 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œPleite” but sexy 😎

17.12.2024 17:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0