Maynooth University, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland.

Gwen Bouvier is Assistant Professor at Maynooth University and researches on social media, news, social semiotics and Critical Discourse Studies. She is Associate Editor of the journal Social Semiotics and Review Editor of the Journal of Multicultural Discourses. Her latest publications include Bouvier, G. (2019) ‘How Journalists Source Trending Social Media Feeds: A Critical Discourse Perspective on Twitter’, Journalism Studies, 20(2): 212-231; Bouvier, G. and Machin, D. (2018) ‘Critical Discourse Analysis and the Challenge of Social Media: The Case of News Texts’, Review of Communication, special issue CDS and/in Communication, 18(3): 178-192.