genci

New edited volume on Digital Genres for Academic and Professional Communication

Activities - blog, genci, gennet / By

Our colleagues Oana Carciu and Rosana Villares co-edited the volume “Digital Genres for Academic and Professional Communication” (2026), Routledge, with 13 relevant contributions to map practice and research in the LSP world.  This edited volume represents a collection of empirical research on essential topics in ESP, advancing our understanding of digital genres in a cohesive …

New edited volume on Digital Genres for Academic and Professional Communication Read More »

Carmen Pérez-Llantada delivers a plenary talk: From genres and networks to researchers’ training

Activities - blog, genci, gennet / By

In June 2025, Carmen Pérez-Llantada delivered a plenary talk at the international conference “Innovate and Engage: Bridging Research Communication and Society,” held at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies on 13–14 June. The talk explored how the ways researchers communicate are changing in a digital world, and what that means for how we prepare them …

Carmen Pérez-Llantada delivers a plenary talk: From genres and networks to researchers’ training Read More »

Participation at the BIFI Conference 2025

Activities - blog, genci, gennet / By

Our colleagues María José Luzón and María Ángeles Velilla Sánchez gave two presentations at the XI National Conference BIFI 2025. This is the annual conference of the Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI) of the University of Zaragoza, where some GENCI researchers work at the Computing and Data Science area. You can …

Participation at the BIFI Conference 2025 Read More »

GENCI participation in 47th AEDEAN 2024

Activities - blog, genci / By

Our colleagues Carmen Pérez-Llantada and Rosana Villares presented their study on “Digital science communication practices and public engagement” at the 47th International AEDEAN conference in Seville (Spain), which gathered over 400 participants. Abstract In the current context of the democratisation of science, scientists are increasingly engaging in digital forms of communication aimed at broad publics. …

GENCI participation in 47th AEDEAN 2024 Read More »

GENCI participation in AELFE 2024

Activities - blog, genci, gennet / By

In the month of September, many GENCI members participated in the 22nd International AELFE Conference, held online and on-site (Budapest, Hungary). Check some of our contributions: 1) Navigating the Digital Landscape: Mapping New Genres in Medical Research Communication for ESP Education by Marian Velilla The proliferation of digital media has led to a significant growth …

GENCI participation in AELFE 2024 Read More »

We go to the 41st AESLA Conference (Valencia)

Activities - blog, genci / By

Writing digital genres: A cross-disciplinary study of women scientists’ socioliterate activity. Carmen Pérez-Llantada Abstract Digital technologies have dramatically changed the way scientists circulate, communicate and disseminate their research findings within and beyond their disciplinary communities. While digitally mediated writing practices have been investigated by genre research and workplace writing research, limited attention has been paid …

We go to the 41st AESLA Conference (Valencia) Read More »

Conference: 45th GERAS International Conference: Language use in specialized contexts: new perspectives on research in English and French as specialized languages

Activities - blog, genci / By

The 45th GERAS International Conference took place from 21-23 Mar 2024 at ZHAW Université des sciences appliquées de Zurich, in Winterthur (Switzerland). This is an annual conference organised by the French association of English for specific purposes. Our colleagues Oana Maria Carciu and Rosana Villares, presented the study “Recontextualizing the RA abstract for a diversified audience:  …

Conference: 45th GERAS International Conference: Language use in specialized contexts: new perspectives on research in English and French as specialized languages Read More »

Conference: Twentieth International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society, Valencia (Spain), 7-8 March 2024

Activities - blog, genci / By

Scientists as Engaged and Engaging: Investigating the Scientific Discourse about Climate Change in the Website Latest Thinking. Mª Ángeles Velilla Sánchez and Antoinette Fage-Butler Abstract As global publics broadly know about (Pew Research Centre, 2022) and increasingly trust in climate change science (World Economic Forum, 2021), science communication to publics that just presents the epistemological …

Conference: Twentieth International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society, Valencia (Spain), 7-8 March 2024 Read More »

Conference: Languaging Diversity International Conference 2023, “Languaging identities in changing times: challenges and opportunities”, University of Napoli “L’orientale”, Torino, Italy, 14- 16 Dec.

Activities - blog, genci / By

#ilooklikeasurgeon: using Twitter to challenge stereotypes and draw attention to diversity. Luzón, M.J. Abstract In August 2015, the hashtag #ILookLikeASurgeon was introduced and used to tweet photos of practicing or aspiring surgeons around the world, and thus highlight diversity in surgery. The hashtag went viral and it is still being used frequently to challenge stereotypes, …

Conference: Languaging Diversity International Conference 2023, “Languaging identities in changing times: challenges and opportunities”, University of Napoli “L’orientale”, Torino, Italy, 14- 16 Dec. Read More »

International research week organised by our partners in ASE (Bucharest)

Activities - blog, genci / By

In October 2023, it took place the “International Research and Training Week for Academia – New academic, communication and research competences for the digital age”, organised and coordinated by Professor Laura Mureşan with the support of the Department of Modern Languages and Communication in Business from ASE. Debates, presentations and networking activities from this week …

International research week organised by our partners in ASE (Bucharest) Read More »

News: The Conference Genres And Languages In Digital Communication: Trends And New Directions Was Held In June

Activities - blog, genci / By

Source: https://bifi.es/the-conference-genres-and-languages-in-digital-communication-trends-and-new-directions-was-held-in-june/# On June 28-30, the international congress GENRES AND LANGUAGES IN DIGITAL COMMUNICATION: TRENDS AND NEW DIRECTIONS was held at the Patio de la Infanta (Fundación Ibercaja), organized jointly with the 21st annual conference of the European Association of Languages for Specific Purposes (AELFE2023) and the 7th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Association of Languages …

News: The Conference Genres And Languages In Digital Communication: Trends And New Directions Was Held In June Read More »

Conference: 7th Meeting of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE7) “Combining Tradition and Computation”, University of Queensland, Brisbane (Australia), 19-23 June, 2023.

Activities - blog, genci / By

100% crowdfunded! A study on phraseology for successful scientific communication in an emerging digital genre. Vela-Rodrigo, A. A. Abstract The close relationship between lexis and grammar has been ample proved in a considerable number of publications on corpus linguistics, highlighting the importance of phraseology when studying the performance of a genre (e.g., Hoey 2005, Gries …

Conference: 7th Meeting of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE7) “Combining Tradition and Computation”, University of Queensland, Brisbane (Australia), 19-23 June, 2023. Read More »

Conference: 16th NFEAP International Conference: EAP and time, Oslo (Norway), 15- 16 June 2023

Activities - blog, genci / By

Science communication and the new needs for EAP in the digital age: Producing science crowdfunding videos as multimodal literacy practice. Vivas- Peraza, A.C. Abstract At a time of rapidly changing technologies and explosion of the Open Science movement, online science communication is becoming a major skill for scientists. The Internet and the Web 2.0 allow …

Conference: 16th NFEAP International Conference: EAP and time, Oslo (Norway), 15- 16 June 2023 Read More »

Conference: 32nd Annual International Conference on British and American Studies (BAS 2023), English Department at the Faculty of Letters, West University of Timişoara (Romania), 11-13  May

Activities - blog, genci / By

Lexical Bundles for the Creation of Reliability and Proximity in Crowdfunding Campaigns. Vela-Rodrigo, A. A. Abstract Crowdfunding platforms support the production of scientific knowledge and its dissemination online. It is therefore of interest to uncover how formulaic language operates through the lens of lexical bundle analysis in such emerging genres to know the manner scientists …

Conference: 32nd Annual International Conference on British and American Studies (BAS 2023), English Department at the Faculty of Letters, West University of Timişoara (Romania), 11-13  May Read More »

Conference: Cultures & Contrasts (C&C 2023) LANGUAGES IN CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES: PRACTICES, DISCOURSES, COGNITION. State University of Applied Sciences in Konin (Poland) 27-29 March 2023

Activities - blog, genci / By

A rhetorical profile of art-related crowdfunding projects in a new communicative culture. Vela Rodrigo, A. Abstract Today, scientific researchers are creating a brand-new communicative culture using the digital affordances of the Web 2.0 to disseminate their work to lay publics, making science more accessible and decipherable, at same time they engage society in issues of …

Conference: Cultures & Contrasts (C&C 2023) LANGUAGES IN CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES: PRACTICES, DISCOURSES, COGNITION. State University of Applied Sciences in Konin (Poland) 27-29 March 2023 Read More »

icon_genci.unizar

Conference: 44th GERAS International Conference: Cultures, Mémoires et Héritages en Anglais de Spécialité, École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay (France), 23-25 March 2023

Activities - blog, genci / By

A lexical bundle analysis for artistic campaigns in Crowdfunding Communication. Vela Rodrigo, A. Abstract At present, researchers are increasingly using different digital resources and tools to make scientific contents accessible to lay publics and also to engage them in various ways in scientific research. In the context of science crowdfunding, the technological affordances of digital …

Conference: 44th GERAS International Conference: Cultures, Mémoires et Héritages en Anglais de Spécialité, École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay (France), 23-25 March 2023 Read More »

icon_genci.unizar

Conference: Participation at the 40th International Conference of the Spanish Society of Applied Linguistics (AESLA). Mérida, Spain, 26th-28th April 2023

Activities - blog, genci / By

Lengua y discurso en géneros digitales: el caso de la comunicación pública de la ciencia (conferencia plenaria). Carmen Pérez-Llantada En el contexto de la Ciencia Abierta y de la agenda para la “democratización de la ciencia”, la investigación en lingüística aplicada sobre lengua y comunicación en contextos sociales y culturales está ganando impulso en la …

Conference: Participation at the 40th International Conference of the Spanish Society of Applied Linguistics (AESLA). Mérida, Spain, 26th-28th April 2023 Read More »

Webinar: Invited presentation at Jilin University, China

Activities - blog, genci / By

Digital genres and practices in English for Specific Purposes: Current perspectives and future directions. Carmen Pérez-Llantada.13th December 2022. Jilin University, China Abstract Over the past years, digital communication in specific communities has been a focus of direct interest for English for Specific Purposes (ESP) researchers and practitioners. Such critical focus on ESP research has been …

Webinar: Invited presentation at Jilin University, China Read More »

New Publication: Pérez-Llantada, C. and Luzón, M.J. (2022)

Activities - blog, genci / By

Pérez-Llantada, C. and M.J. Luzón (2022). Genre networks. Intersemiotic relations in digital science communication. New York/Oxon: Routledge. Book description This innovative book employs genre as a fruitful lens for exploring the complexity of science communication online and the new genre assemblages formed at the interface of multiple genres in digital environments. Pérez-Llantada and Luzón argue …

New Publication: Pérez-Llantada, C. and Luzón, M.J. (2022) Read More »

Conference: Participation at the 9th Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Social Media Corpora.

Activities - blog, genci / By

On 28-29th September, the 9th Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Social Media Corpora was held in Santiago de Compostela. Our team members Oana Carciu and Rosana Villares presented part of their current research projects. The abstracts of their presentations are linked below. Digital science communication beyond expert audiences: Exploring add-on genres in enhanced publications. …

Conference: Participation at the 9th Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Social Media Corpora. Read More »

Conference: 20th International AELFE Conference, Communication in the academic, professional, and political spheres during pandemic times. University of Pisa, Italy,  14-15 Sept.

Activities - blog, genci / By

Exploring discoursal uptake and recontextualization in a genre network online: A case study. Carmen Pérez-Llantada Abstract The intertextual and hypertextual relations among genres (discourse types) that result from the Web 2.0 technological affordances invite genre analysts to better grasp the complexity of meaning making processes and the generic interrelations that are established in web-based specialized …

Conference: 20th International AELFE Conference, Communication in the academic, professional, and political spheres during pandemic times. University of Pisa, Italy,  14-15 Sept. Read More »

New Publication: Vivas-Peraza, A.C. (2022)

Activities - blog, genci / By

Vivas-Peraza, A. C. (2022). The role of women in STEM disciplines. A multimodal analysis of crowdfunding project videos for the iGEM science competition. Sociología y tecnociencia, 12(2), 228-251. https://doi.org/10.24197/st.2.2022.228-251 Abstract The gender gap in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is a matter of growing social concern: although the female presence in these disciplines has …

New Publication: Vivas-Peraza, A.C. (2022) Read More »

Conference: Participation at 39th International Conference of the Spanish Society of Applied Linguistics (AESLA).

Activities - blog, genci / By

During the 27th-29th April, the 39th AESLA Conference was held in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Our team members Rosana Villares, Alberto Vela, and Marian Velilla presented part of their current research projects. The abstracts of their presentations are linked below. A genre-based analysis of researchers’ scientific dissemination strategies on Twitter. Villares,R. Abstract: Technological advances …

Conference: Participation at 39th International Conference of the Spanish Society of Applied Linguistics (AESLA). Read More »

New publication: Luzón, M.J. (2022)

Activities - blog, genci / By

Luzón M.J. (2022).“Coronavirus explainers” for public communication of science: everything the public needs to know. In Musolff, A.,  Breeze, R., Kondo, K. and Vilar-Lluch, S. (eds). Pandemic and Crisis Discourse. Bloomsbury Publishing. 10.5040/9781350232730.ch-006 Abstract Disseminating knowledge to the public and communicating it by using engaging and non-technical language is particularly important in health-related crisis such …

New publication: Luzón, M.J. (2022) Read More »

New publication: Luzón, M.J. and Pérez-Llantada, C. (2022)

Activities - blog, genci / By

Luzón, M.J. and Pérez-Llantada, C. (2022). Digital Genres in Academic Knowledge Production and Communication: Perspectives and Practices. Bristol, Multilingual Matters. Abstract This book presents an overview of the wide variety of digital genres used by researchers to produce and communicate knowledge, perform new identities and evaluate research outputs. It explores the role of digital genres …

New publication: Luzón, M.J. and Pérez-Llantada, C. (2022) Read More »

Conference: International Conference on Digital Communication, Identity and Visibility in Research Dissemination (INTERGEDI2021), University of Zaragoza, Spain, 9-10 December 2021.

Activities - blog, genci / By

Predatory journals: A potential threat to the dissemination of validated knowledge in open science. Bocanegra-Valle, A. Abstract Predatory publishing practices have proliferated in the past years by 25% (Oermann et al., 2018) as a result of researchers’ pressure to publish or perish in international journals and, concurrently, the expansion of digital editorial practices and the …

Conference: International Conference on Digital Communication, Identity and Visibility in Research Dissemination (INTERGEDI2021), University of Zaragoza, Spain, 9-10 December 2021. Read More »