Dr Martine van Driel

Dr Martine van Driel

Department of English Language and Linguistics
Assistant Professor

Contact details

Email
m.a.vandriel.1@bham.ac.uk
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My research focuses on autistic communication, taking a neurodiverse and linguistic approach. I centre autistic participants and experiences in my research and am autistic myself. My work aims to understand authentic autistic communication to educate neurotypical populations and increase autism acceptance. My research methods include digital ethnography, discourse analysis, computer-mediated communication analysis, and thematic analysis.

Qualifications

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • PGCHE, University of Birmingham
  • PhD in Applied Linguistics, University of Birmingham
  • MA with Merit in Discourse, Culture & Communication, University of Birmingham
  • BA Cum Laude in Liberal Arts & Sciences, University College Roosevelt (formerly Roosevelt Academy), Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Biography

Dr Martine van Driel works on the intersection of new media studies and linguistics. Her PhD thesis (2018) examined how reader responses to the use of live blogs for hard news reporting. More recently, she worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Autistic Adults Online project  which investigated how autistic adults use social media platforms to connect and build relationships and communities.

She also has extensive teaching experience working previously as a PGTA and a Teaching Fellow at the University of Birmingham across undergraduate, postgraduate and distance programmes. Martine received her PGCHE from the University of Birmingham in 2020 and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Teaching

  •  Digital Media & Communications: - Researching Everyday Communication - Theories of Communication - Thinking, Reading and Writing at University - Media, Culture and Identity English Language: - Thinking, Reading and Writing at University

Research

Dr Martine van Driel works on the intersection of new media studies and linguistics. Her PhD thesis (2018) examined how reader responses to the use of live blogs for hard news reporting. More recently, she worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Autistic Adults Online project  which investigated how autistic adults use social media platforms to connect and build relationships and communities.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Koteyko, N, Van Driel, M, Billan, S, Barros Pena, B & Vines, J 2024, 'Stigma management strategies of autistic social media users', Autism in Adulthood. https://doi.org/10.1089/aut.2023.0095

Van Driel, M & Koteyko, N 2023, 'Autistic Twitter Replies: CMC Acts and Communicative Functions', Language@Internet, vol. 20. <https://www.languageatinternet.org/articles/2022>

Van Driel, M, Vines, J, Barros Pena, B & Koteyko, N 2023, 'Understanding Autistic Adults' Use of Social Media', Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 7, no. CSCW2, 257. https://doi.org/10.1145/3610048

Koteyko, N, Van Driel, M & Vines, J 2022, 'Autistic sociality on Twitter: Enacted affordances and affiliation strategies', Discourse and Communication, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 385-402. https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813211070655

Van Driel, M 2022, 'Genre Expectations and Discourse Community Membership in Listener Reviews of True Crime-Comedy Podcast My Favorite Murder', Language and Literature, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 150-167. https://doi.org/10.1177/09639470221080800

Chapter

Van Driel, M 2021, Evaluating News Events: Using Appraisal for Reader Response. in A Bell, S Browse, A Gibbons & D Peplow (eds), Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, Methods. John Benjamins, pp. 143-162. https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.36.08van

Van Driel, M 2020, "It Makes it more Real": A Comparative Analysis of Twitter Use in Live Blogs and Quotations in Older News Media from a Reader Response Perspective. in C Tagg & M Evans (eds), Message and Medium: English Language Practices Across Old and New Media. De Gruyter, pp. 306-328.

Book/Film/Article review

Van Driel, M 2019, 'Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language', Science, vol. 364, no. 6444, pp. 929-929.

Comment/debate

Natri, HM, Abubakare, O, Asasumasu, K, Basargekar, A, Beaud, F, Botha, M, Bottema-Beutel, K, Brea, MR, Brown, LXZ, Burr, DA, Cobbaert, L, Dabbs, C, Denome, D, Des Roches Rosa, S, Doherty, M, Edwards, B, Edwards, C, Liszk, SE, Elise, F, Fletcher-Watson, S, Flower, RL, Fuller, S, Gassner, D, Giwa Onaiwu, M, Good, J, Grant, A, Haddix, VL, Heraty, S, Hundt, A, Kapp, SK, Keates, N, Kulshan, T, Lampi, AJ, Latimer, O, Leadbitter, K, Litton Tidd, J, Manalili, M, Martin, M, Millichamp, A, Morton, H, Nair, V, Pavlopoulou, G, Pearson, A, Pellicano, L, Porter, H, Poulson, R, Robertson, ZS, Rodriguez, K, Roux, A, Russell, M, Ryan, J, Sasson, N, Smith Grier, H, Somerville, M, Sorenson, C, Stockwell, KM, Szymanski, T, Thompson-Hodgetts, S, Van Driel, M, VanUitert, V, Waldock, K, Walker, N, Watts, C, Williams, Z, Woods, R, Yu, B, Zadow, M, Zimmerman, J & Zisk, AH 2023, 'Anti-Ableist Language is Fully Compatible with High-Quality Autism Research: Response to Singer et al. (2023)', Autism Research, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 673-676. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2928

Conference contribution

Barros Pena, B, Koteyko, N, Van Driel, M, Delgado, A & Vines, J 2023, "My Perfect Platform would be Telepathy" - Reimagining the Design of Social Media with Autistic Adults. in A Schmidt, K Väänänen, T Goyal, PO Kristensson, A Peters, S Mueller, JR Williamson & ML Wilson (eds), CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 40, CHI conference proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), CHI '23, Hamburg , Germany, 23/04/23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580673

Other contribution

Koteyko, N, Manni, S, Barros Pena, B, Van Driel, M & Vines, J 2023, Adapting digital networks and resources for autistic users: A toolkit for the third and public sector..

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