Didem Leblebici, M.A.
Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät (Kuwi)
Akademische Mitarbeiterin
Logenstraße 4
15230 Frankfurt (Oder)
🏠 AM 123
☏ +49 335 5534 2738
✉ leblebici@europa-uni.de
Sprechzeiten
Office hours take place online. Please send me an e-mail for an appointment.
Forschungsschwerpunkte
Research Interests: Language Ideology, Human-Machine Interactions, Posthumanism, Digital Sociology, Languaging, Language Diversity
PhD Project: Language Ideologies in Human-Machine Interactions - The Influence of Voice-Controlled Gadgets on Multilingual Practices and Perceptions (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Britta Schneider)
Memberships:
- Language in the Human-Machine Era (LITHME): Working Group on Ideologies, Beliefs and Attitudes lithme.eu
- Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (KwG)
Talks at Conferences and Workshops
10/2023 with May Rostom: "'The dialect is provocative, how can they not put it in Egyptian?': Metalinguistic comments about the voice assistant Alexa on YouTube"
Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis 4 (Klagenfurt, Austria)
07/2023 "Alexa in multilingual polymedia environments: A case study on the role of smartphones in voice assistant interactions"
The 18th International Pragmatics Conference (Brussels, Belgium)
05/2023 "Implications of Monolingual Bias in Superdiverse Societies" (Poster)
Speech Technology Summer School University of Groningen (Leeuwarden, Netherlands)
11/2022 Panel discussion on Conversational AI
Moderation of the panel with the invited guests Timo Kaerlein, Marie-Theres Fester-Seeger and Tim Hector
Graduates’ Conference “un:real spaces of interaction” (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany)
07/2022 "Constructing Language(s) and AI in Voice Assistant Interactions of Turkish-Speaking Users"
2nd International Whole Action Conference Language in the Human-Machine Era (Jyväskylä, Finland)
06/2022 "Language Ideologies in Human-Machine Interactions"
Language in the Human-Machine Era Training School (Porto, Portugal)
05/2022 "Language Ideologies in Voice Assistant Interactions: Cultural Constructions of Humans, Machines and Language in Multilingual Settings"
Posthumanismus. Transhumanismus. Jenseits des Menschen? 7. Jahrestagung der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft / (Graz, Austria)
03/2022 Presentation of PhD Project in Winter School of Sociolinguistics (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
08/2021 "Digital Borders in the Age of Alexa"
International Summer School "Borders and Migration in Digital Times" - The Viadrina Center B/Orders in Motion
05/2021 "Posthumanist Approaches to Language in Digitalized Societies"
69. Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft + 30. Tagung der Computerlinguistikstudierenden Leipzig / Online
Conference Organisation
4th and 5th November 2022 - Graduates' Conference “un:real Spaces of Interaction. Forms of Social Order in the Spectrum of Media-specific Interaction” in Potsdam / an event within the ZeM’s annual focus on “Digital Realities”
October 2020 - Poster session in “B/Ordering Cultures” Conference. Organised by the Cultural Studies Society (KwG) in European University Viadrina
Publikationen
Edited volume
Kindler, Clara, Didem Leblebici, Giacomo Marinsalta, Till Rückwart, Anna Zaglyadnova. (eds.) (Forthcoming in November 2024). “Un/Reale Interaktionsräume: Formen sozialer Ordnung im Spektrum medienspezifischer Interaktion”. Open Library Medienwissenschaft. Transcript Verlag. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7146-9/un/reale-interaktionsraeume/
Journal articles
Leblebici, Didem. (Under Review).“‘You are Apple, why are you speaking to me in Turkish?’ - The Role of English in Human-Machine Interactions”. Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication.
Rostom, May, Didem Leblebici (In Preperation). "'Alexa learned Arabic': A translanguaging and multimodal perspective on language and media ideologies". Discourse, Context & Media.
Book chapters
Leblebici, Didem. (Under Review). “Einstimmen mit Sprachassistenten: Einblicke in monolinguales Bias in mehrsprachigen Settings.”. In: Horst, Dorothea & Rita Vallentin (eds.) Sprache entgrenzen: Überlegungen zu einer kulturwissenschaftlichen Linguistik. Transcript Verlag.
Schneider, Britta, Didem Leblebici (In Preparation). “English Entanglements in Digital and AI Technologies – Voice Assistant Use and Smartphone Setting Choices of Translingual Speakers in Berlin”. In: Lee, Jerry Won & Sofia Rüdiger (eds.) Entangled Englishes. Routledge.
Leblebici, Didem (In Preparation). “Stylising the ideal user: Insights into experiences of Turkish voice assistant users in Germany”. In: Habscheid, Stefan; Tim Hector; Dagmar Hoffmann and David Waldecker (eds.) Voice Assistants in Private Homes. Media, Data and Language in Interaction and Discourse. Transcript Verlag.
Academic Blog Entries and Other Publications
Lau, Mandy, Didem Leblebici, Britta Schneider. 2022. “Sound-based corpora - histories, sources, biases”. In: Schneider, Britta & Bettina Migge (eds.) Changing Language Ideological Concepts in the Human-Machine Era – Questions, Themes and Topics. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.25867.36649
Lebenslauf / Vita
Academic Background
since 10/2021 - PhD Candidate at European University Viadrina
2019-2021 - Master of Arts in Language - Media Society at European University Viadrina
M.A. Thesis: "Language Ideologies in Human-Machine Interaction: A Qualitative Study with Voice Assistant Users" (Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Britta Schneider & Dr. Rita Vallentin)
Grade: Distinction
2015-2019 - Bachelor of Arts in English Studies & Media Studies at the University of Bonn
B.A. Thesis: "Gender stereotypes and postfeminism: An analysis of selected digital lifestyle publications on Instagram"
Awards
2023 - First Place in Moodle Competition in Teaching
awarded by Zentrum für Lehre und Lernen in Viadrina
2021 - DAAD Prize for outstanding achievements of international students studying at German universities
awarded by European University Viadrina
Lehrveranstaltungen
Teaching
Winter Term 23/24 | BA: Language and Smartphones (Thursdays 9-11) |
Summer Term 23 | BA: Language in the Human-Machine Era (on-campus Thursdays 11-13) |
Winter Term 22/23 | BA: Pragmatics: Language, Context and Meaning (on-campus, Thursdays 11-13) |
Sommer Term 22 | BA: Fundamental Concepts of Sociolinguistics (on-campus, Thursdays 14-16) |
Winter Term 21/22 | BA: Language Theories - Approaches and Schools of Modern Linguistics (online) |
Summer Terms 20 & 21, Winter Term 20/21 | BA: Schreibdidaktisches Tutorium für die Vorlesung "Einführung in die Kulturwissenschaften" bei Prof. Klaus Weber (online) |