Congratulations to Professors Marie de Marneffe and Lauren Squires (English), who have been awarded one of this year's five interdisciplinary team-teaching grants (https://artsandsciences.osu.edu/files/asc-team-teaching-cfp-2016-final-20150505.pdf) for their proposed course, English and Linguistics 5804, “Analyzing Language in Social Media.”  

From their course description:  “The course gives students experience analyzing language in social media, covers theoretical issues arising in digital communication and provides hands-on practice at computational data analysis, applicable across fields.  Students will gain an understanding of the sociolinguistic dynamics of online communication and the technical skills to conduct research on them.”

Terrific news, Marie and Lauren!