Research & Academic Work

Erin McInerney’s current research investigates digital discourse at the Café de Flore, unofficially known as

Paris’s most Instagrammable Café

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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.