DIDI
Digital Natives - Digital Immigrants. Writing on Social Network Sites: a corpus-based observation of the current language use in South Tyrol, with particular consideration of the writers' age
- Project duration: -
- Project status: finished
- Funding: Provincial P.-L.P. 14. Research projects (Province BZ funding /Project)
- Total project budget: €200,392.20
- Institute: Institute for Applied Linguistics
In the project DiDi we have analysed the linguistic strategies employed by users of social network sites (SNS). The data analysis focused on South Tyrolean users and we investigated how they communicate with each other. In regions of the German speaking area where dialect is frequently used in different communicative contexts, regional and social codes are often also used in written computer mediated communication. Another interesting but more general aspect of the new media is connected to the emerging linguistic and social practices (new literacy). One of the main research questions in DiDi was whether people of different age use language on SNS in a similar way or in an age-specific manner.
The purpose of the study was:
1. to record the contemporary language use of South Tyrolean German in the new media (cf. the DiDi Corpus)
2. to describe the everyday usage of language of South Tyrolean SNS users with L1 German with respect to their choice of languages and varieties as well as with respect to their usage of specific cmc phenomena.
Please see the "Publications" for detailed descriptions of the project and its results.
The DiDi Corpus
The DiDi corpus has an overall size of around 650.000 Tokens gathered from 136 South Tyrolean Facebook users who participated in the DiDi project. It consists of 11.102 Facebook wall posts, 6.507 wall comments and 22.218 private messages. All messages were written by the participants throughout the year 2013. Please read the fulldescription of the corpus for further details. Please consider also the description of the method of data collection and the full description of the DiDi project and its research questions.
As every participant could offer either his/her private messages, his/her texts on the wall or both, the corpus comprises wall posts and wall comments from 130 profiles and private messages of 56 profiles; 50 participants granted access to both types of data. Free access to the corpus is given to the wall posts and comments. Due to privacy issues the access to the private messages is restricted. Access to the private messages can be given for scientific research only, after signing a non-disclosure agreement. In case you are interested in the data for scientific reasons, please contact the research team.
All texts were anonymised in order to guarantee that the participants' identity cannnot be infered from the texts. The anonymisation included person names, group names, geographical names and adjectival references, institution names, hyperlinks, mail addresses, phone numbers, numbers of bank accounts, servers, postal codes and other private information. Please, read the anonymisation document for the anonymisation keys.
The corpus offers a vast range of research opportunities for linguists that are interested in CMC in general, and more specific in multilingual language use, the use of regional varieties, code switching, code shifting and code mixing phenomena, etc.
Access to the DiDi corpus via ANNIS: https://commul.eurac.edu/annis/didi
Corpus download via Eurac Research Clarin Centre: https://clarin.eurac.edu/
Glaznieks A, Frey JC (2023)
Journal article
Korpora Deutsch als Fremdsprache
Glaznieks A, Frey JC (2020)
Contribution in book
Deutsch in Sozialen Medien
Frey J (2020)
PhD thesis
König A, Frey JC, Stemle EW (2019)
Presentation/Speech
Conference: 7th Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (cmccorpora19) | Cergy-Pontoise | 9.9.2019 - 10.9.2019
Frey JC, Stemle E, Doğruöz AS (2019)
Contribution in book
Building computer-mediated communication corpora for socio-linguistic analysis
Frey JC, König A, Stemle E (2019)
Conference proceedings article
Conference: 7th Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (cmccorpora19) | Cergy-Pontoise | 9.9.2019 - 10.9.2019
More information: https://cmccorpora19.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/proceedings ...
Frey J, Glaznieks A (2019)
Presentation/Speech
Conference: 55. Jahrestagung des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache | Mannheim | 12.3.2019 - 14.3.2019
Frey JC, Glaznieks A, Stemle EW (2019)
Database
More information: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12124/7
Frey JC, Glaznieks A (2018)
Conference proceedings article
Frey JC (2018)
Presentation/Speech
Conference: 4th LRI Workshop for young academics "Language Policy - Language Use - Language Standard" | Meran | 7.6.2018 - 8.6.2018
Frey JC (2018)
Presentation/Speech
Conference: Round table "Social Net(work)s in Education and Language Sciences" | Heidelberg | 15.6.2018 - 15.6.2018
Frey JC (2018)
Presentation/Speech
Conference: Language, Identity and Education in Multilingual Contexts | Dublin | 2.2.2018 - 4.2.2018
Frey JC, Glaznieks A (2018)
Presentation/Speech
Conference: 6th Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (cmccorpora18) | Antwerp | 17.9.2018 - 18.9.2018
Frey CF, Stemle EW, Glaznieks A (2018)
Presentation/Speech
Conference: 44. Österreichische Linguistiktagung 2018 (ÖLT2018) | Innsbruck | 26.10.2018 - 28.10.2018
Abel A, Frey JC (2018)
Newspaper
Zett: Die Zeitung am Sonntag
Glaznieks A, Frey JC (2018)
Contribution in book
Jugendsprachen/Youth Languages: Aktuelle Perspektiven internationaler Forschung/Current Perspectives of International Research
Frey JC, Glaznieks A (2018)
Conference proceedings article
Conference: 6th Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (cmccorpora18) | Antwerp | 17.9.2018 - 18.9.2018
More information: https://www.uantwerpen.be/images/uantwerpen/container49896/f ...
Glaznieks A (2017)
Presentation/Speech
Glück A, Glaznieks A (2017)
Presentation/Speech
Frey J (2017)
Forlì
Presentation/Speech
Conference: DIT Postgraduate Research Workshop | Forlì | 6.7.2016 - 6.7.2016
Glaznieks A (2017)
Conference proceedings article
Stemle E, Wigham C (2017)
Bolzano: Eurac Research
Edited book
More information: https://zenodo.org/record/1040875
Beißwenger M, Wigham CR, Etienne C, Fišer D, Suárez HG, Herzberg L, Hinrichs E, Horsmann T, Karlova-Bourbonus N, Lemnitzer L, Longhi J, Lüngen H, Ho-Dac L, Parisse C, Poudat C, Schmidt T, Stemle E, Storrer A, Zesch T (2017)
Bolzano, Italy
Conference proceedings article
Proceedings of the 5th Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities
More information: https://zenodo.org/record/1041877
Stemle EW (2017)
Duisburg, Germany
Presentation/Speech
Conference: Integrating a new type of language resource into the Digital Humanities landscape| French-German colloquium on standards for corpora of computer-mediated communication | Duisburg : 19.6.2017 - 20.6.2017
More information: https://sites.google.com/view/dhcmc2017/
Frey J (2016)
Bozen/Bolzano
Presentation/Speech
Conference: Work in Progress Linguistics Colloquium Eurac Research/Free University of Bolzano | Bozen | 11.6.2015 - 11.6.2015
Frey J, Glaznieks A, Stemle EW (2016)
Naples
Presentation/Speech
Conference: Third Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CliC-it 2016) | Naples | 5.12.2016 - 6.12.2016
Frey J (2016)
Lancaster
Presentation/Speech
Conference: UCREL Summer School in corpus-based NLP | | 10.7.2016 - 15.7.2016
Frey J, Glaznieks A, Stemle EW (2016)
Naples
Conference proceedings article
Conference: Third Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CliC-it 2016) | Naples | 5.12.2016 - 6.12.2016
More information: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1749/paper27.pdf
Glaznieks A, Frey JC (2015)
Presentation/Speech
Conference: Multilingualism in the Digital Age | Reading | 19.6.2015 - 19.6.2015
Frey J, Glaznieks A, Stemle EW (2015)
Essen
Presentation/Speech
Conference: 2nd Workshop of the Natural Language Processing for Computer-Mediated Communication / Social Media| NLP4CMC at GSCL 2015 | Essen : 28.9.2015 - 29.9.2015
Stemle EW (2015)
Rennes
Presentation/Speech
Conference: ird-cmc-rennes | International Research Days: Social Media and CMC Corpora for the eHumanities | Rennes : 23.10.2015 - 24.10.2015
More information: http://ird-cmc-rennes.sciencesconf.org/
Frey J, Glaznieks A, Stemle EW (2015)
Essen
Conference proceedings article
Conference: 2nd Workshop of the Natural Language Processing for Computer-Mediated Communication / Social Media| NLP4CMC at GSCL 2015 | Essen : 28.9.2015 - 29.9.2015
Frey J (2014)
Bozen/Bolzano
Radio-TV
Frey JC (2014)
Presentation/Speech
Conference: 1. LRI Workshop "Sprache - Region - Identität in der computervermittelten Kommunikation | Meran | 13.6.2014 - 14.6.2014
Stuckey N, Frey J (2014)
Vienna
Presentation/Speech
Conference: 41. Österreichische Linguistiktagung (ÖLT 2014), Universität Wien | Vienna | 6.12.2014 - 8.12.2014
Frey J, Glaznieks A, Stemle EW (2014)
Hildesheim
Presentation/Speech
Conference: Workshop “NLP 4 CMC| Natural Language Processing for Computer-Mediated Communication / Social Media” at the 12th edition of KONVENS | Hildesheim : 8.10.2014 - 10.10.2014
Frey J, Stemle EW, Glaznieks A (2014)
Hildesheim: Universitatsverlag Hildesheim, Germany
Conference proceedings article
Conference: Workshop “NLP 4 CMC| Natural Language Processing for Computer-Mediated Communication / Social Media” at the 12th edition of KONVENS | Hildesheim : 8.10.2014 - 10.10.2014
More information: http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/konvens2014/data/konvens2014-wo ...
Glaznieks A, Stemle EW (2013)
Dortmund
Presentation/Speech
Glaznieks A, Stemle EW (2013)
Dortmund
Presentation/Speech
Conference: International Workshop "Building Corpora of Computer-Mediated Communication| Issues, Challenges, and Perspectives" | Dortmund : 14.2.2013 - 15.2.2013
Glaznieks A, Stemle EW (2013)
Darmstadt
Presentation/Speech
More information: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259344920_Herausfor ...
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