Nathalie M Meyer

University of Zurich, Switzerland, UFSP Sprache und Raum, PhD Candidate

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I am a PhD candidate in the URPP Language and Space at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. I hold an M.A. in Language and Communication and a B.A. in Media Studies and English Linguistics from the University of Basel. During my studies, I developed a strong interest in research on computer-mediated communication, sociolinguistics, and discourse analysis. In 2014, I completed my M.A. with a thesis on "Structural Dimensions and Audience Management in Personal Experience Narratives on YouTube", in which I combined sociolinguistic and discourse analytical methods in order to analyze the audio-visual data of video blogs. In early 2015, I joined the University of Zurich, where I am currently working on my doctoral dissertation on multimodal communication and space in video game live streaming, focusing mainly on Twitch.
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Andreas H. Jucker and Prof. Dr. Christa Dürscheid
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Talks by Nathalie M Meyer

Massively multimodal communication and space: a case study of video game livestreams

Conference Presentations by Nathalie M Meyer

(Poster) Massively Multimodal Communication and Space: A Case Study of Video Game Livestreaming

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(Abstract) Ethical Issues in Research on Video-Based Public Internet Platforms

When working with spoken, written, and/or visual data from the internet, researchers should alway... more When working with spoken, written, and/or visual data from the internet, researchers should always bear in mind that their data might contain information which could be considered private or can lead to the identification of users' online or offline selves (e.g. the same nickname used on different platforms, proper names, a user's physical image etc). Thus, even though it could be argued that such data is public and therefore freely usable for academic purposes, the paper takes up the ongoing debate regarding ethics and internet research (cf. Bolander and Locher 2014; Convery and Cox 2012) and discusses why it is essential for researchers to consider certain ethical issues, especially when working with publicly available and easily obtainable video data.

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Funktionen der Marker you know und right in Englischsprachigen Monologen: Eine Fallstudie am Beispiel von Narrativen auf YouTube

Thesis Chapters by Nathalie M Meyer

“Hi Guys. I'm Going to Do a Vlog Today About My Top Three Most Embarrassing Moments.” – Structural Dimensions and Audience Management in Personal Experience Narratives on YouTube

Papers by Nathalie M Meyer

Doing space in face-to-face interaction and on interactive multimodal platforms

Journal of Pragmatics, 2018

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Doing space in face-to-face interaction and on interactive multimodal platforms

by Nathalie M Meyer, Andreas H. Jucker, and Christa Dürscheid

In this article, we argue that the spatial environment of everyday interaction has to be understo... more In this article, we argue that the spatial environment of everyday interaction has to be understood as a social construct. Co-participants in an interaction make use of the spatial affordances of the interactional architecture around them, and at the same time they interactionally create and maintain spatial configurations. In that sense, they can be argued to be " doing space ". Concerning face-to-face interaction, we distinguish between heavily structured material settings that are custom-built for specific types of institutionalized interactions, such as lecture theatres, assembly halls or service encounters; moderately structured settings, such as restaurants, staff rooms or museums; and weakly structured settings, such as public town squares or other settings which provide only minimal assumptions about the interactions that may take place there and their spatial configurations. We extend this analysis to different forms of interaction on interactive multimodal platforms (IMP), where the complexities increase with the different spatial levels of the physical computer screen, the many different spatial levels depicted there, and the increasing difficulties for the interactants to navigate and negotiate the different levels of doing space.

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Massively multimodal communication and space: a case study of video game livestreams