New Media, New Audiences workshop and discussion forum, April 13, 2013

When: 13 April, 2013 (Saturday), 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Where: University of Lodz Conference Centre, Kopcińskiego 16/18, Łódź, Poland

NO conference FEE

Linguists from the Institute of English Studies of Lodz University, active in the COST Action IS0906 Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies, are pleased to invite you to a workshop and a discussion forum on New Media, New Audiences to discuss language-related issues with media users and audiences within a changing media and communication environment in the contemporary world. Corpus and web-based tools will also be presented, which handle the parsing of web-site specific comment and user discussion structures for efficient retrieval and processing.

Lunch at the conference centre and tea/coffee can be purchased for 60 PLN (ca 15 Euros). If interested, please send us an email (indicating if you'll have lunch). Those who would like to present results of their study or work in progress, please forward the title and a short (up to 300 word) abstract of your contribution asap but not later than Monday 8 April 2013.

Contact:
Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk: blt @ uni.lodz.pl
Piotr Pęzik: pezik @ uni.lodz.pl

COST Action IS0906, TRANSFORMING AUDIENCES, TRANSFORMING SOCIETIES PRZEMIANY W POSTRZEGANIU RZECZYWISTOŚCI A JĘZYK NOWYCH MEDIÓW, MNiSW Nr. 740/N- COST/2010/0.
University of Lodz team members: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (co-ordinator), Mikołaj Deckert, Łukasz Dróżdż, Monika Kopytowska, Piotr Pęzik, Jerzy Tomaszczyk, Jacek Waliński