WhatsApp Omani Teachers: Social Media and the Question of Social Change
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Najma Al Zidjaly
Najma Al Zidjaly is an Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics (Intercultural Communication) in the Department of English Language and Literature at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. She is the editor of
Building Bridges: Integrating Language. Linguistics, Literature and Translation in English Studies (CSP, 2012). Al Zidjaly is also the author of the forthcoming book,Disability, Discourse and Technology: Inclusion and Agency in Interaction . Her other publications include articles inLanguage in Society ,Multilingua, Visual Communication, Communication & Medicine ,Multimodal Communication ,Disability Studies Quarterly , andIntercultural Management Quarterly . Her research interests focus on multimodality’s role in illuminating the connections between human agency and social media, as it manifests in the relationship between people with disabilities and new forms of technology, on one hand, and the relationship between creative media and the ever-complex identity of (Omani) Arabs, on the other.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- The Multimodal Dimension of Claims in Food Packaging
- Modal Analysis of Superflat Aesthetics
- Multimodal Hyperbole
- Conducting Multimodal Rhetorical Analysis of TV Ads with Atlas.ti 7
- Multimodal Aspects of Representation and Interdiscursive Hybridity in Corporate Films
- Interview with Professor José A. Rueda
- Visual Essay
- WhatsApp Omani Teachers: Social Media and the Question of Social Change
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- The Multimodal Dimension of Claims in Food Packaging
- Modal Analysis of Superflat Aesthetics
- Multimodal Hyperbole
- Conducting Multimodal Rhetorical Analysis of TV Ads with Atlas.ti 7
- Multimodal Aspects of Representation and Interdiscursive Hybridity in Corporate Films
- Interview with Professor José A. Rueda
- Visual Essay
- WhatsApp Omani Teachers: Social Media and the Question of Social Change
