General/meta
Research and studenting resources (Terri Senft, excellent for dissertations)
Discourse analysis
Semiotics for Beginners (Daniel Chandler, also book)
Conversation analysis
Basic CA tutorial (Charles Antaki at Loughborough)
Line numbering in transcripts (John Heritage on EMCA wiki)
Media
News language (teaching unit by me for Queen Mary)
News literacy, including “fake news” (teaching unit by me for Queen Mary)
Operation InfeKtion: How Russia Perfected the Art of War ( New York Times film, for discussion)
Writing
Writing as a social scientist (David Eil in a Twitter thread)
Academic communication (teaching unit by me for a Tempus EU project)
Careers
Employability guide for BA (Hons) English students who do not want to become teachers, or not yet (by me for Professional Writing Practice students at the University of Suffolk)
Library / information resources
Internet Archive – giant lending library of mostly off-copyright stuff
Wayback Machine – past Internet pages
HathiTrust – digital resources at US academic libraries, accessed by a union catalog
Naturally I would never tell students about resources like Sc1-Hub or L1brary Genes1s.
Software
4K downloader for saving video – free, and saves in surprisingly compact form
APowersoft recorder for video / audio – left hand button is the free version
Audacity for audio editing – good for quick transcribing as well as producing podcasts and music
PDF editors – I’ve used PDFEscape
Tabs Outliner for Chrome – saves your tabs when there’s a crash. OneTab lets you save and sort them deliberately. Remember to back up and export tabs when you move to a new computer.
Distraction blocking apps – there is no shame in needing these. The shame is in Silicon Valley’s distraction economy. I have a lifetime license for Freedom.