Alexandra Georgakopoulou

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• Alexandra Georgakopoulou is Professor of Discourse Analysis & Sociolinguistics and Co-Director of the Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication at King’s College London.
• She has developed small stories research, a paradigm for analyzing everyday-life stories in connection with social relations & identity politics. Recently, she has been synthesizing technographic, corpus-assisted and narrative analytic methods to critically interrogate the proliferation and lately ‘curation’ of small stories on social media, with a focus on stories as a feature on platforms (e. g. Instagram). This work was carried out within the ERC Project ‘Life-writing of the moment: The sharing and updating self on social media’ (www.ego-media.org). Latest publications include: ‘Quantified storytelling: A narrative analysis of metrics on social media’ (with Stefan Iversen & Carsten Stage, 2020) and ‘The Cambridge Handbook of Discourse Studies’ (co-edited with Anna De Fina, 2020).