The Routledge Handbook of Language and Digital Communication

Alexandra Georgakopoulou is Professor of Discourse Analysis & Sociolinguistics, King’s College London. She is on the Editorial Board of: Narrative Inquiry: 1999-; Language@Internet: 2005-; Journal of Greek Linguistics: 2009-; Reading Research Quarterly :2010-; Discourse, Context and Media: 2011-; Journal of Sociolinguistics: 2012-. Tereza Spilioti is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Communication at Kingston University (London) where she has introduced the teaching of computer-mediated communication into the BA English Language and Communication and designed a new module on ‘Discourse and Social Media’ offered to both undergraduate and postgraduate students (MA Media and Communication).

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