Jennifer Militello
Biographic Data
| ID | 1697520 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Militello |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Militello |
| SIGNATURE | MILITELLO J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2472-5781 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mediating social and informational serendipity
The linguistic landscape of Lamma Island
Lamma Island, while only a short 30-minute ferry ride from the intensely metropolitan centre of Hong Kong Island, the ‘most vertical city’ in the world, represents a rural diametric as an ‘outlying island’: lightly populated with both a long-standing local population and a transient ‘expatriate’ population. We argue that the main village Yung Shue Wan represents a ‘border nexus’ between the urban and the rural. This becomes evident through our au…
Perceiving in networking interactions: Emblems, indexicality, and their mapping through reflexivity
For newly met acquaintances, deployment of a single lexical term, an emblem such as tech or finance , signals where one stands in the professional universe and points to any manner of traits and characteristics or a certain type of person. This positioning and evaluation has pivotal real-world implications for occupational attainment as people decide whether a conversation is worth continuing and a contact worth advancing. This study examines sel…
Networking in the Time of Covid
This study examines how during COVID professionals in the financial sector in Hong Kong experienced adaptations to previous ways of networking and what the material outcomes were. Becoming acquainted traditionally relies heavily on face-to-face interaction to advance and cement feelings of trust that eventually lead to successfully concluded transactions. Using linguistic ethnography, I interviewed 36 professionals about networking during COVID. …
Autobiography with God Complex and Epidemic
Autobiography with God Complex and Epidemic Jennifer Militello (bio) I have always been a statue, my absenceof gestures just right, my eyes too clean,my knees oiled, all parts of me draped. The corridors of me whisper with chains. I tryto make a language from the splendid voids of rain.I try to be nourished by what has been inedible. Then I starve. I am shocked by the begging bowlspresent in my hands. I pass through ghostsof my own gone self. The…
Networking in the Time of Covid
This study examines how during COVID professionals in the financial sector in Hong Kong experienced adaptations to previous ways of networking and what the material outcomes were. Becoming acquainted traditionally relies heavily on face-to-face interaction to advance and cement feelings of trust that eventually lead to successfully concluded transactions. Using linguistic ethnography, I interviewed 36 professionals about networking during COVID. …
Autobiography with God Complex and Epidemic
Autobiography with God Complex and Epidemic Jennifer Militello (bio) I have always been a statue, my absenceof gestures just right, my eyes too clean,my knees oiled, all parts of me draped. The corridors of me whisper with chains. I tryto make a language from the splendid voids of rain.I try to be nourished by what has been inedible. Then I starve. I am shocked by the begging bowlspresent in my hands. I pass through ghostsof my own gone self. The…
Networking in the Time of Covid
This study examines how during COVID professionals in the financial sector in Hong Kong experienced adaptations to previous ways of networking and what the material outcomes were. Becoming acquainted traditionally relies heavily on face-to-face interaction to advance and cement feelings of trust that eventually lead to successfully concluded transactions. Using linguistic ethnography, I interviewed 36 professionals about networking during COVID. …
The linguistic landscape of Lamma Island
Lamma Island, while only a short 30-minute ferry ride from the intensely metropolitan centre of Hong Kong Island, the ‘most vertical city’ in the world, represents a rural diametric as an ‘outlying island’: lightly populated with both a long-standing local population and a transient ‘expatriate’ population. We argue that the main village Yung Shue Wan represents a ‘border nexus’ between the urban and the rural. This becomes evident through our au…
Perceiving in networking interactions: Emblems, indexicality, and their mapping through reflexivity
For newly met acquaintances, deployment of a single lexical term, an emblem such as tech or finance , signals where one stands in the professional universe and points to any manner of traits and characteristics or a certain type of person. This positioning and evaluation has pivotal real-world implications for occupational attainment as people decide whether a conversation is worth continuing and a contact worth advancing. This study examines sel…
Mediating social and informational serendipity
Sociology (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Affordance (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works)