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Aiello, Giorgia; Thurlow, Crispin; Portmann, Lara (2023). Desocializing social media: The visual and media ideologies of stock photography. Social media + society, 178(1), pp. 1-14. Sage 10.1177/20563051231156363
Portmann, Lara (2022). Crafting an audience: UX writing, user stylization, and the symbolic violence of little texts. Discourse, context & media, 48, p. 100622. Elsevier 10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100622
Thurlow, Crispin; Aiello, Georgia; Portmann, Lara (2019). Visualizing teens and technology: A social semiotic analysis of stock photography and news media imagery. New media & society, 22(3), pp. 528-549. Sage 10.1177/1461444819867318
Portmann, Lara (2020). Designing “good taste”: A social semiotic analysis of corporate Instagram practices. In: Thurlow, Crispin; Dürscheid, Christa; Diémoz, Federica (eds.) Visualizing Digital Discourse: Interactional, Institutional and Ideological Perspectives. Language and Social Life: Vol. 21 (pp. 203-226). Berlin: De Gruyter 10.1515/9781501510113-011
Portmann, Lara (14 October 2023). Crafting the interface: The cultural politics of UX writing (Unpublished). In: ADDA (Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis). 12–14 Oktober 2023.
Portmann, Lara (1 September 2023). Invisibility, power, and normativity in design (Unpublished). In: Front Conference. Zürich. 31 August–1 September 2023.
Portmann, Lara (2 March 2023). Normativity by design: Challenging the ideal of the invisible interface (Unpublished). In: Interaction 23. Zürich. 25 Februar–3 März 2023.
Portmann, Lara (13 November 2022). Making words that work: Language and semiotic ideologies in UX writing (Unpublished). In: AAA (American Anthropology Association) Annual Meeting. Seattle, WA. 9–13 November 2022.
Portmann, Lara (28 September 2022). Investigating the invisible interface: Media and semiotic ideologies in UX writing (Unpublished). In: GAL (Gesellschaft für angewandte Linguistik) Sektionentagung. University of Würzburg. 28–30 September 2022.
Portmann, Lara (13 July 2022). Microcopy as symbolic violence: The pragmatics and politics of little texts in UX writing (Unpublished). In: Sociolinguistics Symposium 24. University of Ghent. 13–16 July 2022.
Portmann, Lara (15 June 2022). Designing words: Reflexivity in the text production of UX writers (Unpublished). In: CSLS summer school. Universität Bern. 14–16 June.
Portmann, Lara (1 June 2022). Designing words: UX writing, language work, and the politics of digital media interfaces (Unpublished). In: Forum GSAH (Graduate Studies of the Arts and Humanities). Universität Bern. 01.06.2022.
Portmann, Lara (12 April 2022). “A very functional designer of words”: (Non-)creativity and the language work of UX writers (Unpublished). In: MA Seminar: Professional Discourse (Instructors: Prof. Dr. Crispin Thurlow and Dr. Gwynne Mapes). Universität Bern. 12.04.2022.
Portmann, Lara (25 February 2022). “Yes, Agreed!”: Microcopy, audience crafting, and the symbolic violence of little texts in UX writing (Unpublished). In: SWELL (Swiss Works in English Language and Linguistics) Annual Meeting. Universität Basel. 25 February 2022.
Thurlow, Crispin; Aiello, Georgia; Portmann, Lara (23 September 2021). Envisioning social media: Visual and media ideologies in stock photography – a multimodal corpus-based approach (Unpublished). In: Putting Multimodality to Use: Corpus-based Applications of Multimodality and Their Implications for Theory and Methods. Universities of Salzburg & Groningen. 23.-24.09.2021.
Portmann, Lara (13 September 2021). What’s in a name? Job titles, identity and indexicality in UX writing (Unpublished). In: BeLing Colloquium. University of Bern. 13.-14.09.2021.
Portmann, Lara (21 June 2021). UX writing as audience design: A discourse ethnography. (Unpublished). In: CUSO Workshop: Harvesting Language in the Field – Methodologies in Sociolinguistic Data Collection. University of Bern. 21.-22.06.2021.
Portmann, Lara (9 June 2021). (In)visible words: The language work of user experience writers (Unpublished). In: Sociolinguistics Symposium 23. University of Hong Kong. 07-10.06.2021.
Portmann, Lara; Thurlow, Crispin (12 March 2021). Picturing social media – A multimodal discourse analysis (Unpublished). In: SWELL (Swiss Works in English Language and Linguistics). University of Zurich. 12.03.2021.
Portmann, Lara (6 March 2021). The rhetorics of creativity in professional language work: The case of UX writers (Unpublished). In: LET Kansai Fundamental Theory SIG. Kansai University. 06.03.2021.
Portmann, Lara (20 October 2020). Language, structure and privilege: How designing (with) words impacts the world around us (Unpublished). In: Utterly Content Global. Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) / online. 19–20 Oct 2020.
Portmann, Lara (August 2020). UX Writing as Audience Design: The Sociolinguistics of Digital Media Interfaces (Unpublished). In: CSLS Summer School. Kornhausforum Bern / Haus der Universität Bern. August 2020.
Portmann, Lara (April 2020). A hard look in the mirror: Language, structure, and privilege in IA [Information Architecture] (Unpublished). In: The IA Conference. New Orleans (LA) / online. April 2020.
Portmann, Lara (27 February 2020). The impact of IA [Information architecture]: Language, structure, and privilege in our work (Unpublished). In: World IA Day Conference. Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. Februar 2020.
Thurlow, Crispin; Portmann, Lara; Aiello, Giorgia (November 2017). Visual ideologies in the mediatized representation of young people and technology (Unpublished). In: Visualizing (in) the New Media. University of Lausanne, CH.
Portmann, Lara (2022). The cultural politics of the interface: Status, power, and normativity in the language work of UX writers (Unpublished). (Dissertation)
Portmann, Lara (2021). Cookie consent notices (October 2020–November 2021) [Dataset].
Thurlow, Crispin; Portmann, Lara; Droz-dit-Busset, Olivia Alizée (2019). Visualizing new media: Image bank keywords corpus [Dataset]. In: Image bank keywords corpus.
Portmann, Lara (2018). Status and privilege in corporate social media (multimodal corpus) [Dataset].
Thurlow, Crispin; Portmann, Lara; Droz-dit-Busset, Olivia Alizée (2018). Visualizing new media: Stock photography corpus [Dataset]. In: Stock photography corpus.
Thurlow, Crispin; Portmann, Lara; Droz-dit-Busset, Olivia Alizée (2018). Visualizing new media: News media corpus [Dataset]. In: News media corpus.
Portmann, Lara (2023). About Normativity by design: Challenging the ideal of the invisible interface [Interview]. In: IxDA Stories (Podcast).
