Milene Oliveira
@mendesdeoliveira.bsky.social
Sociolinguistics, digital communication, digital Interculturality, Newcastle University, mendesdeoliveira.com
Here's a new article, which I had the pleasure to co-author with Britta Schneider: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Developing Critical AI Language Literacy—prompting experiments on raciolinguistic bias to understand large language models as cultural artefacts - AI & SOCIETY
Understanding how AI and constructions of race intersect and which new ethical dilemmas arise in this context has become pressing. In this article, we introduce a university pedagogical project centre...
link.springer.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Here's a new article, which I had the pleasure to co-author with Britta Schneider: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Our review & reflection on Blommaert's 'Durkheim and the Internet' (2018) and 'Online with Garfinkel' (2019). If you get a chance to take a look, we'd love to hear your thoughts. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
October 29, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Our review & reflection on Blommaert's 'Durkheim and the Internet' (2018) and 'Online with Garfinkel' (2019). If you get a chance to take a look, we'd love to hear your thoughts. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
I’ll be presenting at the @baal-linguistics.bsky.social Conference this Friday (5:30 pm).
My paper, co-authored with Daniel N. Silva, examines students’ reflections on social interactions during a virtual project in relation to neoliberal discourses.
If you’re at #BAAL2025, do stop by!
My paper, co-authored with Daniel N. Silva, examines students’ reflections on social interactions during a virtual project in relation to neoliberal discourses.
If you’re at #BAAL2025, do stop by!
September 2, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I’ll be presenting at the @baal-linguistics.bsky.social Conference this Friday (5:30 pm).
My paper, co-authored with Daniel N. Silva, examines students’ reflections on social interactions during a virtual project in relation to neoliberal discourses.
If you’re at #BAAL2025, do stop by!
My paper, co-authored with Daniel N. Silva, examines students’ reflections on social interactions during a virtual project in relation to neoliberal discourses.
If you’re at #BAAL2025, do stop by!
📘 Explorations in Digital Interculturality
Here’s how Luisa Conti and I responded to transcript verlag’s questions about our edited volume on language, culture & postdigital practices (I loved the 4th question! ☺️)
Interview & open-access volume 👉 www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-7...
Here’s how Luisa Conti and I responded to transcript verlag’s questions about our edited volume on language, culture & postdigital practices (I loved the 4th question! ☺️)
Interview & open-access volume 👉 www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-7...
September 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
📘 Explorations in Digital Interculturality
Here’s how Luisa Conti and I responded to transcript verlag’s questions about our edited volume on language, culture & postdigital practices (I loved the 4th question! ☺️)
Interview & open-access volume 👉 www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-7...
Here’s how Luisa Conti and I responded to transcript verlag’s questions about our edited volume on language, culture & postdigital practices (I loved the 4th question! ☺️)
Interview & open-access volume 👉 www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-7...
Our edited volume on digital interculturality is out. It's been such a pleasant journey to work together with colleagues from different disciplines and to look at digital interculturality from so many theoretical and empirical angles. Do make sure to check it out.
Our new book is live!
Edited by @mendesdeoliveira.bsky.social and Luisa Conti, it brings together perspectives from sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, & intercultural communication studies to explore digital interculturality.
Check it out! #openAccess
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
Edited by @mendesdeoliveira.bsky.social and Luisa Conti, it brings together perspectives from sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, & intercultural communication studies to explore digital interculturality.
Check it out! #openAccess
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
Explorations in Digital Interculturality
An exploration of digital intercultural practices that deepens our understanding of digital interculturality, offering insights from various disciplinary perspectives.
www.transcript-verlag.de
August 14, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Our edited volume on digital interculturality is out. It's been such a pleasant journey to work together with colleagues from different disciplines and to look at digital interculturality from so many theoretical and empirical angles. Do make sure to check it out.
🧐 A sneak peek at the introduction to "Explorations in Digital interculturality"
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
It will be available soon! Stay tuned!
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
It will be available soon! Stay tuned!
July 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
🧐 A sneak peek at the introduction to "Explorations in Digital interculturality"
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
It will be available soon! Stay tuned!
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
It will be available soon! Stay tuned!
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Our new book is forthcoming this summer, so stay tuned!
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
June 30, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Our new book is forthcoming this summer, so stay tuned!
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
🚩Explorations in digital interculturality - forthcoming volume with chapters by D. Busch, B. Schneider & B. Migge, J. Yudytska & J. Androutsopoulos, A. Georgakopoulou, D. Silva, N. Thielemann & Z. Savych, and the ReDICo team.
#sociolinguistics #interculturality
By @transcript-verlag.bsky.social
#sociolinguistics #interculturality
By @transcript-verlag.bsky.social
June 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
🚩Explorations in digital interculturality - forthcoming volume with chapters by D. Busch, B. Schneider & B. Migge, J. Yudytska & J. Androutsopoulos, A. Georgakopoulou, D. Silva, N. Thielemann & Z. Savych, and the ReDICo team.
#sociolinguistics #interculturality
By @transcript-verlag.bsky.social
#sociolinguistics #interculturality
By @transcript-verlag.bsky.social
Re-reading this gem while prepping for my 'English in the World' session tomorrow.
And @redico.eu , check out my note from a year ago! 😁
And @redico.eu , check out my note from a year ago! 😁
March 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Re-reading this gem while prepping for my 'English in the World' session tomorrow.
And @redico.eu , check out my note from a year ago! 😁
And @redico.eu , check out my note from a year ago! 😁
Counter-demonstrators stop neo-Nazi march
Far-right members gathered in several cities across Germany. In Berlin, they were met by 2,000 counter-demonstrators.
Far-right members gathered in several cities across Germany. In Berlin, they were met by 2,000 counter-demonstrators.
March 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Counter-demonstrators stop neo-Nazi march
Far-right members gathered in several cities across Germany. In Berlin, they were met by 2,000 counter-demonstrators.
Far-right members gathered in several cities across Germany. In Berlin, they were met by 2,000 counter-demonstrators.
There's a version in english, too
English version of the documentary about power abuse in the Max Planck Society can be found here. 144.000 views already, more than 800 comments. Share it to make colleagues aware of what happens in German academia & the MPG! #IchBinHanna #PowerAbuse
March 15, 2025 at 12:36 PM
There's a version in english, too
Reposted by Milene Oliveira
English version of the documentary about power abuse in the Max Planck Society can be found here. 144.000 views already, more than 800 comments. Share it to make colleagues aware of what happens in German academia & the MPG! #IchBinHanna #PowerAbuse
March 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM
English version of the documentary about power abuse in the Max Planck Society can be found here. 144.000 views already, more than 800 comments. Share it to make colleagues aware of what happens in German academia & the MPG! #IchBinHanna #PowerAbuse
Mobbing and misconduct are symptoms of bigger structural problems. I'm happy to see this coming out.
youtu.be/cAL4mX646rU?...
youtu.be/cAL4mX646rU?...
Angeschrien, gemobbt, gedemütigt: Machtmissbrauch an Max-Planck-Instituten | DW Reporter
YouTube video by DW Deutsch
youtu.be
March 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Mobbing and misconduct are symptoms of bigger structural problems. I'm happy to see this coming out.
youtu.be/cAL4mX646rU?...
youtu.be/cAL4mX646rU?...
🌏 Melisa Stevanovic and I explored interpretative repertoires used by German and Chinese students (home and exchange students, respectively) when writing about their interactional experiences in a virtual game. Our reflections and findings can be found here: doi.org/10.1515/mult... Open access.
March 13, 2025 at 10:48 PM
🌏 Melisa Stevanovic and I explored interpretative repertoires used by German and Chinese students (home and exchange students, respectively) when writing about their interactional experiences in a virtual game. Our reflections and findings can be found here: doi.org/10.1515/mult... Open access.
Loving this! Thanks, @theresaheyd.bsky.social !
To be found here: www.jbe-platform.com/content/book...
To be found here: www.jbe-platform.com/content/book...
March 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Loving this! Thanks, @theresaheyd.bsky.social !
To be found here: www.jbe-platform.com/content/book...
To be found here: www.jbe-platform.com/content/book...
Reposted by Milene Oliveira
UK #languageEducation faces a lot of critical challenges, and on Saturday 29th March, the Coalition for Language Education are discussing ways forward.
Programme for "Together Across Sectors for the Future of Language Education" attached.
Book a place at coalitionforlanguageducationuk.com/events/.
Programme for "Together Across Sectors for the Future of Language Education" attached.
Book a place at coalitionforlanguageducationuk.com/events/.
March 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
UK #languageEducation faces a lot of critical challenges, and on Saturday 29th March, the Coalition for Language Education are discussing ways forward.
Programme for "Together Across Sectors for the Future of Language Education" attached.
Book a place at coalitionforlanguageducationuk.com/events/.
Programme for "Together Across Sectors for the Future of Language Education" attached.
Book a place at coalitionforlanguageducationuk.com/events/.
Reposted by Milene Oliveira
Our #OpenAccess ebook is live! "Reimagining Digital Cosmopolitanism: Perspectives from a Postmigrant and Postdigital World" edited by @fergallenehan.bsky.social & Roman Lietz. @transcript-verlag.bsky.social
🔗 www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/5c...
See the chapters in this 🧵 and check it out.
1/18
🔗 www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/5c...
See the chapters in this 🧵 and check it out.
1/18
![Book cover "Fergal Lenehan, Roman Lietz (eds.)
Reimagining Digital Cosmopolitanism: Perspectives from a Postmigrant and Postdigital World" Image showing miniature people slacklining out of a laptop screen into another. Open access. [transcript] Studies in Digital Interculturality](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kjk7wgbkl7fghu2leuk4wjdv/bafkreidfpvr6kwlx6mwhhapoem4bmq2usks5ad3ejsaq45izunfrimoegi@jpeg)
February 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Our #OpenAccess ebook is live! "Reimagining Digital Cosmopolitanism: Perspectives from a Postmigrant and Postdigital World" edited by @fergallenehan.bsky.social & Roman Lietz. @transcript-verlag.bsky.social
🔗 www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/5c...
See the chapters in this 🧵 and check it out.
1/18
🔗 www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/5c...
See the chapters in this 🧵 and check it out.
1/18
Reposted by Milene Oliveira
Fully funded 4-year PhD with me at VU Amsterdam #emca workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...
Vacancy — PhD position: Recording in social interaction
Are you looking for a PhD position in the field of communication? Do you have a background in conversation analysis, interactional-, or sociolinguistics? Are you fascinated by the impact of smartphone...
workingat.vu.nl
January 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Fully funded 4-year PhD with me at VU Amsterdam #emca workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...
Newcastle upon Tyne, here we go! 💪🏽
December 24, 2024 at 8:31 AM
Newcastle upon Tyne, here we go! 💪🏽
Reposted by Milene Oliveira
NEW #OA FROM 53(5)
"Sociolinguistics of hope: Language between the no-more and the not-yet" by Daniel N. Silva, Rodrigo Borba
#SociolinguisticsOfHope #Affect #PracticalReason #LanguageIdeology #Ethnography
doi.org/10.1017/S004...
"Sociolinguistics of hope: Language between the no-more and the not-yet" by Daniel N. Silva, Rodrigo Borba
#SociolinguisticsOfHope #Affect #PracticalReason #LanguageIdeology #Ethnography
doi.org/10.1017/S004...
Sociolinguistics of hope: Language between the no-more and the not-yet | Language in Society | Cambridge Core
Sociolinguistics of hope: Language between the no-more and the not-yet - Volume 53 Issue 5
doi.org
December 23, 2024 at 2:59 PM
NEW #OA FROM 53(5)
"Sociolinguistics of hope: Language between the no-more and the not-yet" by Daniel N. Silva, Rodrigo Borba
#SociolinguisticsOfHope #Affect #PracticalReason #LanguageIdeology #Ethnography
doi.org/10.1017/S004...
"Sociolinguistics of hope: Language between the no-more and the not-yet" by Daniel N. Silva, Rodrigo Borba
#SociolinguisticsOfHope #Affect #PracticalReason #LanguageIdeology #Ethnography
doi.org/10.1017/S004...
Reposted by Milene Oliveira
Universities all over Europe are cutting language programs and closing the doors to the world. We want to get a more complete picture: where, when, why?
If you know of any such cases, please tell us (and share the link with your language and linguistics contacts)!
elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...
If you know of any such cases, please tell us (and share the link with your language and linguistics contacts)!
elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...
December 13, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Universities all over Europe are cutting language programs and closing the doors to the world. We want to get a more complete picture: where, when, why?
If you know of any such cases, please tell us (and share the link with your language and linguistics contacts)!
elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...
If you know of any such cases, please tell us (and share the link with your language and linguistics contacts)!
elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...
13 years ago, I left Brazil to move to Germany. Now, I’m doing it again—this time from Germany to the UK. On Sunday, my family and I will say “Tschüss” to Berlin and “hello” to Newcastle upon Tyne. I can’t get enough of ‘interculturality,’ apparently! 😅
December 18, 2024 at 8:06 PM
13 years ago, I left Brazil to move to Germany. Now, I’m doing it again—this time from Germany to the UK. On Sunday, my family and I will say “Tschüss” to Berlin and “hello” to Newcastle upon Tyne. I can’t get enough of ‘interculturality,’ apparently! 😅
“Pleite” but sexy 😎
December 17, 2024 at 5:41 PM
“Pleite” but sexy 😎
Meanwhile in Berlin 🚬 🚬 🚬
(P.S.: Home Alone, of course)
(P.S.: Home Alone, of course)
December 17, 2024 at 2:50 PM
Meanwhile in Berlin 🚬 🚬 🚬
(P.S.: Home Alone, of course)
(P.S.: Home Alone, of course)