Joanne Meredith
Department of Social Sciences
Loughborough University
Loughborough
Leicestershire LE11 3TU
England.
Email: J.M.Meredith@lboro.ac.uk
Nationality: British
Start Date: Oct 2010
Status: Full-time.
Academic Biography:
BA European Politics (2:1) University of Nottingham, 2004
MA Politics and Social Policy (Distinction), University of Nottingham, 2006
Research Assistant, Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University, 2007-2009
MRes Social Research (Distinction), Loughborough University, 2010
Current Research:
My research focuses on how online interactions are similar to or different from spoken interactions. My data comes from instant messaging chats via the Facebook ‘chat’ facility, and I am using conversation analysis to analyze the interactions. Specifically I am interested in how the affordances of the online medium allow for differences in interactional practices to have developed. I am also interested in how social relationships are maintained using the internet.
Research Interests:
Conversation analysis, discursive psychology, internet interactions, instant messaging.
Funding Body: Economic and Social Research Council
Supervisors: Professor Elizabeth Stokoe
Involvement in Department:
DARG coordinator
Liquid Lab postgraduate committee
Publications:
France, A and Meredith, J (2009) Giving respect: the 'new' responsibilities of youth in the transition towards citizenship in Millie, A (ed) Securing respect: Behavioural expectations and anti-social behaviour in the UK Bristol: Polity Press
France, A., Meredith, J. and Murdock, G. (2008) Children and Marketing Literature, CRSP Working Paper (CRSP 583) submitted to the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF).
France, A., Meredith, J. and Sandu, A. (2007) ‘Youth Culture and Citizenship in Multicultural Britain’ in Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 307-320.
Conference Papers:
Meredith, J., France, A. and Murdock, G (2009) Protecting childhood in the digital age? The limits of UK state regulation of the global advertising and marketing industries, Presented at the 9th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Lisbon, September 2009.