Amy King
| Biography | I am largely interested in the interplay between violence, vulnerability, digital technologies, identity, and political life. My PhD project, "Language as violence: A discourse analysis of linguistic violence on Twitter" is an interdisciplinary investigation exploring the contextual, linguistic and technological requirements for violence to circulate through online interactions. I incorporate impoliteness theory, theoretical debates on gendered political violence, and an Arendtian conceptualisation of power and violence for my analytical lens. Specifically, my project qualitatively analyses tweets sent to 4 women who stood as Scottish National Party candidates in the 2021 Scottish Parliament election using a semiotic analysis. I am a member of the British Association for Applied Linguistics. |
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| Research Interests | social media communication, women and/in political life, impoliteness theory, intersectional feminist theory and practice, internet studies |
| Teaching and Learning | I have worked as a module tutor for Introduction to Literary Studies: Text and Context and Case Studies in Cultural Studies. I have guest-lectured for Case Studies in Cultural Studies on Cultural Currency, Privacy and Power in the Social Media Age. |