Introduction : Fresh perspectives on new media sociolinguistics / Crispin Thurlow and Kristine Mroczek -- Part 1. Metadiscursive framings of new media language : Voicing "sexy text" heteroglossia and erasure in TV news representations of Detroit's text message scandal / Lauren Squires -- When friends who talk together stalk together: online gossip as metacommunication / Graham M. Jones, Bambi B. Schieffelin, Rachel E. Smith -- "Join our community of translators": language ideologies and/in Facebook / Aoife Lenihan -- Part 2. Creative genres: texting, messaging, and multimodality : Beyond genre: closings and relational work in text messaging / Tereza Spilioti -- Japanese Keitai novels and ideologies of literacy / Yukiko Nishimura -- Micro-blogging and status updates on Facebook: texts and practices / Carmen K. M. Lee -- Part 3. Style and stylization: identity play and semiotic invention : Multimodal creativity and identities of expertise in the digital ecology of a World of Warcraft guild / Lisa Newon -- "Ride hard, live forever": translocal identities in an online community of extreme sports Christians / Saija Peuronen -- Performing girlhood through typographic play in Hebrew blogs / Carmel Vaisman -- Part 4. Stance: ideological position taking and social categorization : "Stuff White people like": stance, class, race, and Internet commentary / Shana Walton, Alexandra Jaffe -- Banal globalization?: Embodied actions and mediated practices in tourists' online photo sharing / Crispin Thurlow, Adam Jaworski -- Orienting to Arab orientalisms: language, race, and humor in a YouTube video / Elaine Chun, Keith Walters -- Part 5. New practices, emerging methodologies : From variation to heteroglossia in the study of computer-mediated discourse / Jannis Androutsopoulos -- sms4science: an international corpus-based texting project and the specific challenges for multilingual Switzerland / Christa Dürscheid, Elisabeth Stark -- C me Sk8: discourse, technology, and "bodies without organs" / Rodney H. Jones
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Digital Discourse offers a distinctly sociolinguistic perspective on the nature of language in digital technologies. It starts by simply bringing new media sociolinguistics up to date, addressing current technologies like instant messaging, textmessaging, blogging, photo-sharing, mobile phones, gaming, social network sites, and video sharing. Chapters cover a range of communicative contexts (journalism, gaming, tourism, leisure, performance, public debate), communicators (professional and lay, young people and adults, intimates and groups), and languages (Irish, Hebrew, Chinese, Finnish, Japanese, German, Greek, Arabic, and French). The volume is organized around topics of primary interest to sociolinguists, including genre, style and stance. With commentaries from the two most internationally recognized scholars of new media discourse (Naomi Baron and Susan Herring) and essays by well-established scholars and new voices in sociolinguistics, the volume will be more current, more diverse, and more thematically unified than any other collection on the topic. -- Book Description