Table of Contents
Exploring Digital Communication
Caroline Tagg
Introduction: why focus on language in exploring digital communication?
Section A: Problems and Practices
I. Digital language and literacy
1) Is digital communication detrimental to grammar and spelling?
2) Has the internet changed how we read?
3) Is the web devaluing what it means to be an author?
4) Does the internet further the global dominance of English?
II. Social issues and social media
5) From anonymity to self promotion: are we ever ourselves on social media?
6) What are the implications of social media for privacy?
7) Is social media making us less social?
8) What can be done about trolls and online bullying?
Section B: Interventions
I. Digital language and literacy
9) Why text messaging may be good for literacy
10) Exploring digital literacies
11) Using the web as a space for writing
12) Using more than one language online
II. Social issues and social media
13) Performing identity online
14) Audience design on social media
15) Constructing virtual communities
16) The linguistics of online aggression
Section C: Theory
I. Digital language and literacy
17) Multiliteracies
18) Translanguaging via a superdiverse internet
19) Heteroglossia
II. Social issues and social media
20) Identities in interaction
21) Sociolinguistic communities