Digital discourse: language in the new media

Abstract

Foreword Introduction: Fresh Perspectives on New Media Sociolinguistics PART 1 - METADISCURSIVE FRAMINGS OF NEW MEDIA LANGUAGE 1. Voicing Sexy Text: Heteroglossia and Erasure in TV News Representations of Detroit's Text Message Scandal 2. WHen Friends Who Talk Stalk Together: Online Gossip as Metacommunication 3. Join Our Community of Translators: Language Idelogies and Facebook PART 2 - CREATIVE GENRES: TEXTING, MESSAGING AND MULTIMODALITY 4. Beyond Genre: Closings and Relational Work in Text-Messaging 5. Japanese Keitai Novels and Ideologies of Literacy 6. Micro-Blogging and Status Updates on Facebook: Texts and Practices 7. Multimodal Creativity and Identities of Expertise in the Digital Ecology of a World of Warcraft Guild 8. Ride Hard, Live Forever: Translocal Identities in an Online Community of Extreme Sports Chrstians 9. Performing Girlhood Through Typographic Play in Hebrew Blogs PART 4 - STANCE: IDEOLOGICAL POSITION-TAKING AND SOCIAL CATEGORIZATION 10. Stuff White People Like: Stance, Class, Race and Internet Commentary 11. Banal Globalization? Embodied Actions and Mediated Practices in Tourists' Online Photo-Sharing 12. Orienting to Arab Orientalism: Language, Race, and Humor in a YouTube Video PART 5 - NEW PRACTICES, EMERGING METHODOLOGIES 13. From Variation to Heteroglossia in the Study of Computer-Mediated Discourse 14. SMS4science: An International Corpus-Based Texting Project and the Specific Challenges for Multilingual Switzerland 15. C me Sk8: Discourse, Technology and Bodies Without Organs Comment Index