Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Editors’ Introduction
Section 1. Methods and Perspectives
- Approaches to language variation, Lars Hinrichs
- Network analysis, John Paolillo
- Digital ethnography, Piia Varis
- Multimodal analysis, Carey Jewitt
Section 2. Language Resources, Genres, and Discourses
- Digital genres and processes of remediation, Theresa Heyd
- Style, creativity and play, Yukiko Nishimura
- Multilingual resources and practices in digital communication, Carmen Lee
- Digital discourses: a critical perspective Tereza Spilioti
Section 3. Digital Literacies
- Digital media and literacy development, Michele Knobel & Colin Lankshear
- Vernacular literacy: orthography and literacy practices, Josh Iorio
- Texting and language learning, Clare Wood, Nenagh Kemp & Sam Waldron
Section 4. Digital Communication in Public
- Digital media in workplace interactions, Erika Darics
- Digital advertising, Helen Kelly-Holmes
- Corporate blogging and corporate social media, Cornelius Puschmann and Rebecca Hagelmoser
- Twitter: design, discourse, and the implications of public text, Lauren Squires
Section 5. Digital Selves and Online and Offline Lives
5.1. The role of the body and space in digital multimodality, Elizabeth Keating
5.2. Second Life: language and virtual identity, Ashraf Abdullah
5.3. Online multiplayer games, Lisa Newon
5.4. Relationality, friendship & identity in digital communication, Sage Lambert Graham
Section 6. Communities, Networks, Relationships
- Online communities and communities of practice, Jo Angouri
- Facebook and the discursive construction of the social network, Caroline Tagg & Philip Seargeant
- YouTube: language and discourse practices in participatory culture, Jannis Androutsopoulos and Jana Tereick
- Translocality, Samu Kytola
Section 7. New Debates and Further Directions
7.1. Social reading in a digital world, Naomi Baron
7.2. New frontiers in interactive multimodal communication, Susan Herring
7.3. Moving between the big and the small: identity and interaction in digital contexts, Ruth Page
7.4. Surveillance, Rodney Jones
7.5. Choose now! media, literacies, identities, politics Charles Ess