About

Stefanie Ullmann is a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the project Giving Voice to Digital Democracies: The Social Impact of Artificially Intelligent Communications Technology, funded by the Humanities and Social Change International Foundation.

Stefanie studied English Linguistics and Web Technology at the University of Marburg in Germany. She recently completed her PhD in Linguistics, which focuses on “A Critical Corpus-Assisted Enquiry into the (Ab)Use of Cognitive-Linguistic Construal” in political and media coverage of the 2011 Arab Spring revolutions. Her research interests and background are in functional linguistics, critical theory and discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, new media and communication technologies as well as the instrumentalisation of language in states of socio-political conflict and crisis.