Research & Academic Work
Erin McInerney’s current research investigates digital discourse at the Café de Flore, unofficially known as
“Paris’s most Instagrammable Café”
C
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The Corpus de Flore project collected every post tagged at the Café de Flore geotag on Instagram over the year 2022.
A selection of this data will be made available to researchers in the form of a public, collaborative corpus on Instagram. These posts form part of the original corpus and their authors have consented to their use in the CDF project and any other further project of researchers studying linguistics and semiotics on Instagram.
If you wish to include any of these posts in your own research, please contact Erin McInerney for details.
view a sample of the corpus
FURTHER INFORMATION
Affiliations
Erin received her PhD in Linguistics in September 2024 from the University of Strasbourg in collaboration with the University of Glasgow. From 2022-2024, she was a lead researcher on the French-language team at the University of Freiburg (Switzerland) for the Erasmus+ project Capito! Compris! Understood! Verstanden!
Other Roles
Head of Languages, National School of Architecture, Strasbourg
Elected Representative, LiLPa Linguistics Council
Recent & Upcoming Talks
December 2024 - Media & Society Symposium, University of Lorraine (invited)
June 2024 - Linguistic Landscape 15, Wellington
October 2023 - Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis, Klagenfurt
October 2023 - Association of Internet Researchers, Philadelphia
October 2023 - University of Oxford, Maison Française d’Oxford
November 2023 - International Seminar on Social Media Discourse Analysis (invited)
Publications
Click here to view Erin’s current publications
For a full list of current and forthcoming work, see Erin’s CV.
Previous Work
Spring 2023: Language, Semiotics and Society Series
This joint seminar series, which I created from themes that I have observed in my own research on mediated discourse, welcomes five speakers and experts in sociolinguistics. The series has a particular focus on the ongoing relationship that exists between language and semiotics in the physical and digital spheres and the implications this relationship has for sociolinguistic research.
The series is open to any interested individuals. To pre-register, follow this link.
Spring 2023: European Youth Event
Erin was an invited speaker at the European Parliament’s 2023 “European Youth Day”
Autumn 2022 - Spring 2024: Capito! Compris! Understood! Verstanden!
Hear about the Erasmus+ funded research project & Erin’s collaboration with the University of Freiburg, Switzerland in the podcast above.