Public evening lecture by Professor Dr Florian Busch (University of Bern)

Writing on a smartphone plays a central role in the writing culture of digital societies. Transitional moments in everyday life are used for short written interactions, for example to respond to text messages on the move. The lecture examines such writing processes and focuses on revision practices that provide insights into the microstructural organisation of mobile writing. The results of two studies from German-speaking Switzerland will be presented, which use screen captures, eye-tracking, keylogging and videography to show how revisions are characterised by interactional orientation and physical embedding in offline situations.

Florian Busch is Assistant Professor of Discourse and Interactional Linguistics at the Institute of German Studies at the University of Bern. He received his doctorate from the University of Hamburg and was a visiting scholar at MIT. His research interests include digital communication, written linguistics, interactional analysis and critical discourse research. His current research project "Texting in Time" is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and analyses the use of language in everyday smartphone communication in German-speaking Switzerland and Germany.

Moderation: Professor Dr Konstanze Marx-Wischnowski