FOS: Seeking new team members for MI-COVID Diaries research project

[Wagner, Suzanne]

Hi Socio Lab and Friends of Sociolinguistics,

The MSU Sociolinguistics Lab<http://sociolab.wagnersu.msu.domains>'s MI-COVID Diaries<http://www.mi-covid-diaries.com> project is seeking students (graduate and undergraduate) who'd like to join our team this fall. This is an opportunity to be a part of an ongoing research project, recently featured in this news story<http://www.cal.msu.edu/news/researchers-study-how-covid-pandemic-affecting-language-change>! You don't have to be a Linguistics major, or have any background in linguistics. In fact, some of our current team<https://www.mi-covid-diaries.com/meet-the-team> are majors in Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures. You don't even have to be at MSU, since we're doing all of our work remotely. Please feel free to spread the word to anyone who might be interested.

In this phase we need help with tasks including:

  *   recruiting participants via e-mail and (social) media outreach
  *   designing recruitment and promotion materials
  *   retaining participants over time via innovative communications with them
  *   managing participant information, including compensation
  *   brainstorming weekly question prompts for adults, teens and kids
  *   managing our social media accounts and website
  *   reviewing audio diary contributions for "stories" to feature on our website each week
  *   engaging with partner organizations like 4H and Library of Michigan
  *   correcting automated speech-to-text transcriptions
  *   liaising with our app developers

We're looking for volunteers, but there is a possibility of paid positions in the next year. It's also a great chance to get to know other students at our weekly project meetings (via video), and to see how sociolinguists are collecting data via remote means during the pandemic. As we consolidate our data collection, there may also be opportunities for interested students to conduct some preliminary linguistic analysis.

Ideally we'd like to hear from students who can commit 2-3 hours per week for the entire fall semester. If you can stay with us in spring too, that's great, but not necessary at this time.

Contact Drs. Suzanne Wagner and Betsy Sneller: wagnersu at msu.edu and sneller7 at msu.edu.

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Suzanne Evans Wagner | she, her, hers
Associate Professor of Linguistics and Director of Graduate Studies
B-401 Wells Hall
Department of Linguistics and Languages
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824

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