Gwen Bouvier

Memberships of associations and editorial boards

• Social Semiotics – Taylor & Francis journal, associate editor, since 2013.

• Journal of Multicultural Discourses – Taylor & Francis journal, review editor, since 2016.

• International Journal of Marketing Semiotics & Discourse Studies – member of the editorial board, since 2020.

• Media, War and Conflict – Sage journal, member of the editorial board, since 2008.

• CCMS Research Unit – University of South Wales, member 2011-2013.

• Centre for the Study of Media and Culture in Small Nations – University of South Wales, member 2009-2013.

• Particip@tions  – Journal of Audience and Reception Research, Aberystwyth University  (www.participations.org), member of the editorial board, 2003-2008.

• War and Media network – University of Sussex (http://www.warandmedia.org), member since 2004.

Research degree supervision

• BA level: University of South Wales

• MA level: Leicester U, Zayed U, University of South Wales, Örebro U, Zhejiang U

• PhD level: Zhejiang University

Conference Participation

• 31st  European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference, Social Semiotics  and Sustainability, SDU, Denmark, 2022. “Distant health careers and  vague causalities: moralized official reproductive health communication  on social media in China”.

• “Engineering Practices”  Workshop: The Use of Networks in the Humanities and Social Sciences –  Model, Metaphor, Method, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. “Understanding  coherence on social media hashtag networks: intensive parenting on  Chinese Weibo”.

• Grammar and Pragmatics (GaP), Antwerp  University, Belgium, 2022. “Social Justice and Social Media Discourses:  Morality and Superficiality”.

• Approaches to Digital  Discourse Analysis 3 (ADDA 3), University of South Florida, Florida,  USA, 2022. “Social Activism and the Self as Moral Project”.

• Second  International Sexual Health Promotion Workshop, University of South  Denmark, Denmark, 2022. “Moralized self-empowerment: official  reproductive health communication on social media in China”.

• International  Conference on Frontiers in Discourse Studies, Jiao Tong University,  China, 2021. Invited speaker. “Creativity in the Wanghong sphere:  Discourses of Neoliberalism and Confucianism in influencers”.

• CARP2021,  Character Assassination and Reputation Politics Research Lab, George  Mason University, Virginia, USA. Invited speaker. “The Limits of Twitter  for Social Justice Campaigns”.

• Forum on Institutional  Discourse and Social Governance, Institute of Fengqiao Experience &  Social Governance, Zhejiang Police College, China, 2019. Keynote  speaker. “The nature of communication on social media”.

• TESPA  Annual meeting and multimodality symposium, Taipei National University,  Taiwan, 2019. Invited speaker “How can we use multimodal critical  discourse analysis to do social media research”.

• CADAAD,  Aalborg University, Denmark, 2018. “Social Media and Sourcing News: The  role of discourses of personalization and emotion and the challenges for  CDA”.

• International Communication Association (ICA),  Prague, 2018. “Trending Marginalized voices in the Irish abortion debate  on Twitter”.

• MeCCSA, South Bank University, London,  2017. “Using Photographs from Twitter as News Sources: Social media,  personalization and emotion in contemporary news”.

• Embargo,  Ecumenical Patriarchate – A Forum on Modern Slavery, Istanbul, 2017.  Plenary session, Invited speaker. “The Media and Public Knowledge about  Slavery”.

• Scholarly visit and research presentation  (invited), Hangzhou Normal University & Zhejiang University,  Hangzhou, 2017. “News, Civic Debate, and Social Media”.

• Cross-Cultural  Communication Conference, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 2016.  “Social Media and its Impact on Intercultural Communication: the  challenges for a discourse approach”.

• Scholarly visit and  research presentation (invited), Södertörn University, Stockholm, 2015.  “Discourse Analysis of Social Media”.

• Cyfrwng –  ‘Voices’, Trinity College, Carmarthen, 2010. “How do Welsh Voices  resound in Virtual Space. Facebook calling for Identity and  Self-classification”.

• CAMMRO – third international  conference, Media coverage of the 'war on terror', University of London,  2007. “War on the Home Front: the discourse analysis of a Flemish  political email message”.

• MeCCSA – Media, Communications  and Cultural Studies Association yearly conference, Bournemouth  University, 2004. “The Television Representation of 9/11: BBC and VRT”.

• Crossroads – Culture and Media, Reading University, 2003. “Reading Television”.

Administrative responsibilities

• PhD programme co-coordinator

• MA co-coordinator

• Department social media promotion of BA and MA programmes

• Departmental library liaison

• Second Year coordinator

• Organised PG research colloquium day 2018-19

• Head of MA Journalism Connected (Director of programme)

• Member of MA curriculum revision team

• Faculty Committee member

• Graduate Study Committee member

• Member of Mobile Learning Research group

• Admissions

• First Year Coordinator

• Delivering open days

• Delivering Major’s Days

• Applicant interviewing

• Advising students

She  reviews for many journals, amongst others Social Media + Society; Visual  Communication; New Media and Society; Journalism Studies; Journalism  Practice; Discourse, Context & Media; Social Science Journal; Review  of Communication; International Journal of Communication (IJoC); and  Critical Discourse Studies.