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Caitlin Hogan

Caitlin

Research - PhD

Email: c.m.hogan@qmul.ac.uk
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/caitlinhogan/home

Profile

I am a PhD researcher funded by LISS-DTP, and I am primarily interested in the intersection of community and language use in the online sphere. Particularly, my work focuses on pop culture fans, and how they present their membership in fan communities through their use of language on social media, especially in culturally hybridised contexts. My PhD project explores the language use of K-Pop fans on Twitter, and how they police the behaviour of others through language. I’m also a Research Associate at the Concept Analytics Lab at the University of Sussex.

Thesis title:  Identity, Politics, and Influence in online K-Pop Communities

Supervisors: Devyani Sharma and Agnieszka Lyons

Research

Research Interests:

  • Sociolinguistics
  • Linguistic Anthropology
  • Computer-Mediated Communication
  • Discourse analysis
  • Ethnography
  • Corpus linguistics

Publications

Hogan, C. (2022). A Tale of Two Accounts: Context Design and Searchability Influences Language of K-Pop Fans on Twitter. In the proceedings of Computer Mediated Communication (CMC2022). Santiago de Compostela. p. 31. 
(under review) Hogan, C. 2024. Softblocking: Imagined Affordances and Expectations of Reciprocity on Twitter. New Media & Society. 
(under review) Hogan, C. 2024. “One does not need to understand satoori to know that it is hot”: Resemiotisation of Korean Regional Dialects through Global Hallyu Fandom. Localizing hallyu: The semiotics of the Korean wave in media and discourse [special issue]. Discourse, Context & Media. 

Public Engagement

I co-founded the Real Talk East London project with Dr Johanna Gerwin, a celebration of the language of East London combined with a study on language commodification in a London context. We worked with the Mile End Community Project and the Queen Mary Festival of Communities to create a range of merchandise featuring East London language selected by community members, for them to display more prominently the varieties in this area. We are preparing a journal submission discussing more about our project at the moment. 
I also work in the Communications team at the COST Action Network Language in the Human Machine Era (LITHME), a research network dedicated to exploring the intersections of language and technology, what this means for humanity now and in the future, and how academics can better communicate these results to the general public. 
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