{"id":1272,"date":"2016-11-30T15:57:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T15:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2016-12-01T13:56:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T13:56:21","slug":"cge-seminar-wednesday-7th-december-dr-caroline-tagg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ilc\/2016\/11\/30\/cge-seminar-wednesday-7th-december-dr-caroline-tagg\/","title":{"rendered":"CGE Seminar Wednesday 7th December: Dr Caroline Tagg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us for the next <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/cge\">Centre for Global Englishes (CGE)<\/a> seminar.<\/p>\n<p>When: Wednesday 7th December, 5-6.30pm<\/p>\n<p>Where: LTC, Building 65, Avenue Campus<\/p>\n<p>Who: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/ct7565\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Caroline Tagg<\/a>, The Open University<\/p>\n<p><em>Communicating across online and offline spaces: a mobile-supported business model for migrant micro-entrepreneurs <\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this talk, I\u00a0draw on data from a large ethnographic project to explore\u00a0the ways in which migrant small-business owners exploit mobile phone messaging apps to do business, establish and maintain informal support networks, and perform identities as entrepreneurs of a particular heritage background. The project is the AHRC-funded, four-year \u2018Translation and Translanguaging: investigating linguistic\u00a0and cultural transformations in superdiverse wards in four UK cites\u2019 (PI: Angela Creese, University of Birmingham). Key participants are observed, recorded and interviewed at work and home, a well-established ethnographic approach which is innovatively augmented by the parallel collection of social media data.<\/p>\n<p>My\u00a0talk focuses on the social media use of two entrepreneurial couples: Chinese butchers in Birmingham and Polish shop-owners in London. Analysis of their SMS, WeChat and Viber messages, informed by the interview and interactional data collected at work and home, shows that mobile messaging apps are facilitating the emergence of a new business model characterised by dynamic configurations of\u00a0time and space. I\u00a0detail how the mobile phone serves as a gateway to physical contexts such as the shop whilst also facilitating asynchronous communication which we describe as a \u2018virtual noticeboard\u2019. I\u00a0also explore how the mobile makes possible the creation of a support network which stretches from the surrounding UK city to the migrants\u2019 home countries, and how the\u00a0migrants draw on different timescales \u2013 immediate concerns and shared cultural histories \u2013 in managing these relationships. In documenting this new model, I\u00a0explore the ways in which the entrepreneurs construct, negotiate and exploit multiple layers of flexible and selective \u2018timespaces\u2019, transgressing traditional boundaries of time and\u00a0space and creating new intersections between virtual and physical space as they fulfil everyday functions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us for the next Centre for Global Englishes (CGE) seminar. 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