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Research

Identity and affiliation in social networking sites 

Group lead: Dr Neyla Koteyko

Research themes:

  1. Construction of identity and affiliation in digital networked environments in relation to sensitive and stigmatised issues;
  2. The role of technological affordances in enabling and constraining practices of communication, and the implications this has for critique as well as the design of inclusive technology.

Methods:

Digital linguistic ethnography (combining observation, analysis of online posts, and interviews), corpus linguistics, discourse analysis.

 

Koteyko, N. and Atanasova, D. (2018). Mental health advocacy on Twitter: positioning in Depression Awareness Week tweets. Discourse, Context & Media, 3, 52-59.

Koteyko, N. and Hunt, D. (2016). Performing health identities on social media: an online observation of Facebook profiles. Discourse, Context & Media, 12, 59-67.

Koteyko, N (2014). Critical studies of health and illness discourses. In C. Hart and P. Cap (eds). Contemporary Studies in CDA. London: Continuum. Pp.545-559.

Armstrong N, Koteyko N, Powell J. (2011). ‘Oh dear, should I really be saying that on here?’ Issues of identity and authority in an online diabetes community. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 16(4), 347- 365

2020-2022: Principal Investigator- ESRC standard grant 'Autistic adults online: enabling autistic sociality in digital networked environments'. Co-I Prof J Vines. Project partner – research charity Autistica

 

2013-2015: Principal Investigator – ESRC standard grant ‘Chronic illness and online networking: expectations, assumptions, and everyday realities’. Co-I: Prof B Gunter. In collaboration with research charity Diabetes UK.