Centre for Language and Communication Science Research at the School of Health and Psychological Sciences, City, University of London welcomes Nelya Koteyko to discuss her findings on how autistic people modify their behaviour to try to fit in with social situations, including social media interactions, as part of the research seminar series.
Abstract
As a minority group affected by a stigmatised social status autistic people modify their behaviour to try to fit in with social situations, including social media interactions.
Most research uses questionnaires to assess these interactional behaviours, leading to a gap in understanding of how to identify them in naturalistic interactions online.
Nelya Koteyko and her team also do not know what social media contexts make autistic people feel like they belong or make them feel vulnerable.
In this talk, Nelya will consider how digital linguistic ethnography can contribute to the identification of individual (concealing minority group characteristics) and collective (positively redeveloping the in-group) stigma management strategies used by autistic adults on social media.
About the speaker
Nelya Koteyko is Professor of Language and Communication at Queen Mary University of London.
Her research focuses on the relationship between media discourse, everyday practices and identities, including stance taking and identity construction in social media.
She is PI on the ESRC funded project Autistic Adults Online and recipient of Wellcome Trust Discovery Award ‘Autism in affinity spaces: Interest-driven social media practices during the transition to adulthood’ (2023-2029).
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