Impulses and Approaches to Computer-Mediated Communication - CMC 2025 - Proceedings

Sep 4, 2026

Proceedings from the 12th International Conference on Computer Mediated Communication and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC 2025), held 4–5 September 2025 at the University of Bayreuth. The volume organizes preface materials, committees, keynote addresses, and a broad set of research talks and poster abstracts. Topics cover discourse and language study in social media corpora, annotation and extraction of linguistic signals, methods for specialized and dynamic corpora, and emerging themes such as deepfakes, emojis, gender labeling, and multimodal analyses.

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Preface

New Impulses and Approaches to Computer-Mediated Communication

Committees

Keynotes

Keynote 1

Keynote 2

Talks

Studying Discourse in Social Media: Challenges & Opportunities

Studying language and identity in a corpus of computer-mediated communication with (and without) sociodemographic metadata

Towards a new Curation Workflow for the CMC Corpora Resource Family

HopeEmo: A Bilingual Social Media Corpus for Emotion and Hope Speech Analysis

Tracking Ephemerality in YouTube Comments: Towards Methods for Building Dynamic CMC Corpora

Deepfakes in Criminal Investigations: Interdisciplinary Research Directions for CMC Research

CRIME: The Corpus of Recorded Investigative, Media, and Evidence-based Proceedings

Dimensions of Drivel in German Telegram Posts: Manual Annotation and Predictive Power

A Case Study on Annotating and Analysing Situation Entity Types in Reddit Discussions on Democracy

Annotating and Extracting Suggestive Language in CMC: A Linguistically Grounded Corpus and NLP Approach

Beyond names: how to label gender automatically in CMC data?

"I expected better from you, Mr. King": Feminist resistance and reader critique in the subreddit r/MenWritingWomen

OMG! Why discourse markers thrive in interactive social media writing

Emoji and Emoticon Use in Online Dating Profiles and Chats: A Corpus Study into Functions and Categories

"Tinder is overrated": Neoliberal Affective Economies in an Italian Incel Forum

Modelling the Interaction Space ofTwitch: A Multimodal Framework for Corpus Structuring and Analysis

Strategic Transparency or Deliberate Ambiguity? A Multimodal Analysis of Airline CSR Communication on LinkedIn

Emerging digital discourse traditions: A contrastive analysis ofther/todayilearned subreddit and its German and French counterparts

Evaluating Different Methods for Building Specialized Corpora: A Case Study on the German Discourse on AI

The most common features of the Albanian language used in computer-mediated communication – an overview based on corpus data

Poster Abstracts

Augmenting the CoWoYTP1Att Corpus with Emotion and Hate Speech Annotations

Methodology for Developing a Fact-Checked News Dataset in Norwegian Bokmål for Fake News Detection (The Fakespeak-NOR Corpus)

Building and querying Wikipedia discussion corpora

Annamária Fábián/Igor Trost (eds.) Impulses and Approaches to Computer-Mediated Communication Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Mediated Communication and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities Annamária Fábián/Igor Trost (eds.) Impulses and Approaches to Computer-Mediated Communication Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Mediated Communication and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities CMC 2025 4th-5th September 2025 University of Bayreuth, Germany Impulses and Approaches to Computer-Mediated Communication. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Mediated Communication and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities, CMC 2025, 4th-5th September 2025, University of Bayreuth, Germany. Editors: Annamária Fábián, Igor Trost Published by University of Bayreuth Conference website: [https://www.cmc2025.uni-bayreuth.de/en/index.html](https://www.cmc2025.uni-bayreuth.de/en/index.html) [DOI: 10.15495/EPub_UBT_00008705](DOI: 10.15495/EPub_UBT_00008705) [ISBN: 978-3-00-085196-4](ISBN: 978-3-00-085196-4) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons “Attribution 4.0 International” license. Table of Contents I. Preface 9 and New Impulses and Approaches to Computer-Mediated Communication II. Committees 13 III. Keynotes 15 (1) (2) IV. Talks (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) Studying Discourse in Social Media: Challenges & Opportunities Stephanie Evert (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) Studying language and identity in a corpus of computer-mediated communication with (and without) sociodemographic metadata Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University, UK) Towards a new Curation Workflow for the CMC Corpora Resource Family Egon W. Stemle, Lionel Nicolas (Eurac Research, Italy), Alexander König (CLARIN-ERIC, The Netherlands) HopeEmo: A Bilingual Social Media Corpus for Emotion and Hope Speech Analysis Wajdi Zaghouani (Northwestern University, Qatar), Md. Rafiul Biswas (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar) Tracking Ephemerality in YouTube Comments: Towards Methods for Building Dynamic CMC Corpora Yining Wang, Katrin Weller (Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany) Deepfakes in Criminal Investigations: Interdisciplinary Research Directions for CMC Research Lorenz Meinen, Astrid Schomäcker, Timo Speith, Lena Kästner, Christian Rückert (University of Bayreuth, Germany), Niklas Kühl, Stefanie Wiedemann (University of Bayreuth /FIM Forschungsinstitut, Germany), Markus Hartmann (ZAC NRW, Germany) CRIME: The Corpus of Recorded Investigative, Media, and Evidence-based Proceedings Steven Coats (University of Oulu, Finland), Dana Roemling (University of Birmingham, UK) Dimensions of Drivel in German Telegram Posts: Manual Annotation and Predictive Power Andreas Blombach, Evert, Stephanie, Linda Havenstein, Philipp Heinrich (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) 17 22 27 29 33 36 40 45 50 (9) A Case Study on Annotating and Analysing Situation Entity Types in Reddit Discussions on Democracy Hanna Schmück, Annemarie Friedrich (University of Augsburg, Germany), Michael Reder (Munich School of Philosophy, Germany), Katrin Paula (Technical University Munich, Germany) (10) Annotating and Extracting Suggestive Language in CMC: A Linguistically Grounded Corpus and NLP Approach Omnia Zayed, Sampritha Manjunath, Paul Buitelaar (University of Galway, Ireland) (11) Beyond names: how to label gender automatically in CMC data? Pasi Fränti, Juhani Järviö, Mehrdad Salimi, Irene Taipale, Mikko Laitinen, Rahel Albicker, Chunyuan Nie, Masoud Fatemi, Paula Rautionaho (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) (12) "I expected better from you, Mr. King": Feminist resistance and reader critique in the subreddit r/MenWritingWomen Marie Flesch (Université de Lorraine), Heather Burnett (Université Paris Cité, France) (13) OMG! Why discourse markers

FAQs

What is the scope and theme of the CMC 2025 conference proceedings?

The proceedings focus on impulses and approaches to computer-mediated communication and social media corpora for the humanities, compiling preface material, keynote presentations, talks, and poster abstracts.

What kinds of research topics are covered in the talks and posters?

Coverage includes studying discourse and identity in social media, corpus curation and methodology, annotation and extraction of linguistic phenomena, specialized and dynamic corpus construction, and multimodal or interdisciplinary analyses.

Where and when was CMC 2025 held?

CMC 2025 took place at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, on 4–5 September 2025.

Sep 4, 2026

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