Dr Olivia Inwood

I am a PhD Candidate in the School of the Arts and Media, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at UNSW.

My PhD research is broadly situated in the disciplines of linguistics and social media. More specifically, I am researching how deceptive communication, mis/disinformation and moral panics are enacted on YouTube. This involves applying methods in systemic functional linguistics, digital data extraction and corpus linguistics, to analyse the metadata, visual content, transcripts and comment sections of YouTube videos based around three case studies. I am interested in how evaluative language and salient visual content is constructed in YouTube videos that spread deceptive communication. I am also interested in affiliation, in terms of understanding how YouTube audiences align or dis-align with discourses spreading deceptive communication and/or moral panics. My research will provide a new framework to understand how various forms of mis/disinformation are constructed on YouTube through an emphasis on affiliation and will contribute to the growing areas of deceptive communication detection processes and digital information/media literacy policies.

My website: http://www.oliviainwood.com

JOURNAL ARTICLES

(Peer-reviewed)

Inwood, O. & Zappavigna, M. (in press). Ambient affiliation, deceptive communication, and moral panic: Negotiating social bonds in a YouTube internet hoax. Discourse and Communication. 15(3).

BOOK CHAPTERS

(Peer-reviewed)

Inwood, O. & Zappavigna, M. (in preparation). The ID2020 Conspiracy Theory in YouTube Video Comments during COVID-19: Bonding Around Religious, Political, and Technological Discourses. Discourses of and about Conspiracy Theories. Edited by Ruth Breeze, Massimiliano Demata, Virginia Zorzi and Angela Zottola. John Benjamins Publishing. (Expected publication 2022).