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SUMMARY:FAH-DENG Best Essay in English Studies competition (Deadline extended to 15 April 2026)
DESCRIPTION:To all students enrolled in UM English Department courses \n  \nThe Best Essay in English Studies competition for 2026 is now open. The Department looks forward to acknowledging student achievement by awarding a prize for the best essay in each year of the undergraduate degree\, and in each of our three subject areas: Linguistics\, Literary Studies\, and Translation (for Translation this may be a translated passage). Please submit your most original\, insightful\, and/or best-researched work. \n  \nThe competition is open to all students enrolled in UM English Department courses. Each student may submit one piece of work\, which should be an academic assignment in one of the Department’s courses in the current academic year (2025–26). If the work has already been graded it must have received a mark of at least 88 to qualify\, and please note that creative work and group work is not eligible for these prizes. \n  \nEssays will be judged by the relevant professors in each area of study. Prizes will be presented at an Award Day on Wednesday 29 April 2026\, although if no work of a sufficiently high standard is submitted for a subject’s year group\, then that prize will not be awarded. \n  \nEssays should be submitted to deng.bestessay@um.edu.mo. Please give your name\, student number\, and year of study (year 1/2/3/4) on the first page of the essay or translation. The deadline for submission is now extended to 5pm on Wednesday 15 April.
URL:https://fah.um.edu.mo/event/fah-deng-best-essay-in-english-studies-competition-deadline-8-april-2026/
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CATEGORIES:Department of English
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SUMMARY:Lecture by UM Macao Distinguished Visiting Scholar: 'How health influencers use algorithms to create discourses: distorting medical information for niche marketing groups'
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nHealth professionals are concerned about how social media influencers\, lacking professional training\, have become leading players in the provision of health-related knowledge to the public. Such information can be\, at best\, misleading.  Yet\, as scholars have observed\, there is still less good understanding of this form of influencer-created\, health-related\, content and why it is so successful. In this talk I look at some case studies from an ongoing project looking at how leading influencers on a Chinese social media platform\, RedNote\, provide information for young women about sexual health and STDs as part of their primary aim of marketing a probiotics product for which they are sponsored.  I show how information is formulated in the first place\, not on the basis of clear\, coherently presented\, health issues\, but in accordance with configurations of personal concerns\, interests and lifestyle issues which are algorithmically identified.  From a health communication perspective what we can learn from this is that a displacement of medical logic is part of the structural feature of influencer-driven health communication.  It may not be simply a matter of supplying ‘correct’ information. \n  \nBiography: \nDavid Machin is Professor of Communication\, working presently the fields of health communication and in particular nutrition.  Has published across leading journals in the field and has several internationally established text books in multimodality and discourse analysis including Machin\, D and Mayr\, A. (2023) How to do Critical Discourse Analysis and Machin\, D and Ledin\, P. (2020) Introduction to Multimodal Analysis.  He is co-editor of Social Semiotics (SSCI-indexed) and sits on the editorial board of all the leading international journals in the field of discourse studies.
URL:https://fah.um.edu.mo/event/lecture-by-um-macao-distinguished-visiting-scholar-how-health-influencers-use-algorithms-to-create-discourses-distorting-medical-information-for-niche-marketing-groups/
LOCATION:E21-3118
CATEGORIES:Department of English
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SUMMARY:FAH-DENG & FAH-DPT: "Conference on Ethnographic and Discourse Studies"
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URL:https://fah.um.edu.mo/event/fah-deng-fah-dpt-conference-on-ethnographic-and-discourse-studies/
LOCATION:E21-3118
CATEGORIES:Department of English,Department of Portuguese
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