Working with Mediagrams: A Methodology for Collaborative Research on Mediational Repertoires in Multilingual Families

Autor/inn/en	Lexander, Kristin Vold; Androutsopoulos, Jannis
Titel	Working with Mediagrams: A Methodology for Collaborative Research on Mediational Repertoires in Multilingual Families
Quelle	In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 42 (2021) 1, S.1-18 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0143-4632
DOI	10.1080/01434632.2019.1667363
Schlagwörter	Sociolinguistics; Language Research; Computer Mediated Communication; Ethnography; Family Relationship; Visualization; Second Language Learning; African Languages; Native Language; Norwegian; Foreign Countries; Language Usage; Graphs; Social Networks; Language Attitudes; Information Technology; Telecommunications; Handheld Devices; Video Technology; Social Media; Computer Software; Code Switching (Language); Visual Aids; French; English (Second Language); Freehand Drawing; Language Variation; Norway; Senegal + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziolinguistik; Sprachforschung; Computerkonferenz; Ethnografie; Visualisation; Visualisierung; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Africa; Language; Languages; Afrika; Sprachen; Afrikanische Sprache; Norwegisch; Ausland; Sprachgebrauch; Grafische Darstellung; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Sprachverhalten; Informationstechnologie; Telekommunikationstechnik; Soziale Medien; Anschauungsmaterial; Französisch; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Drawing; Zeichnen; Sprachenvielfalt; Norwegen
Abstract	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. (As Provided).
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