Professional Bio

Areas of Interest: grounded approaches to digital discourse.

Sarah Jackson is a doctoral candidate in Applied Linguistics. Her current research focuses on applications of MMDA (Multimodal Discourse Analysis) and bottom-up analytical approaches to CMC (Computer Mediated Communication), HCI (Human Computer Interaction), pragmatics, embodiment, and digital discourses. She typically explores topics including, but not limited to: videogaming, social media, popular culture, accessibility, gamification, and the application of multimodal digital interactional research findings to other mediated collaborative environments.