Sven Leuckert, Daria Dayter and Thomas C. Messerli are convening the pre-conference workshop “Corpus-Linguistic Approaches to Reddit” at ICAME47 in Koblenz:
The goals of the workshop are (1) to showcase the potential of language use on Reddit specifically for corpus-linguistic approaches; (2) to highlight the multifaceted nature of communicative practices on the platform; and (3) to open up avenues for further collaboration. Contributors to the workshop present case studies of their research on Reddit, emphasising methodological challenges and questions. These include, among others, increasingly AI-produced contributions on Reddit, changes in how data may be accessed and reproduced, and research ethics. Overall, the workshop serves to bring together corpus linguists working with Reddit data and to advance social media research in linguistics.