This Handbook provides a comprehensive, state of the art overview of language-focused research on digital communication. It will be an essential resource for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers within English language and linguistics, applied linguistics and media and communication studies.

Alexandra Georgakopoulou is Professor of Discourse Analysis and Sociolinguistics, King's College London.

Tereza Spilioti is Senior Lecturer in Language and Communication at Cardiff University, UK.

Contributors: Ashraf R. Abdullah, Jannis Androutsopoulos, Jo Angouri, Naomi S. Baron, Erika Darics, Charles M. Ess, Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Sage Lambert Graham, Rebecca Hagelmoser, Susan C. Herring, Theresa Heyd, Lars Hinrichs, Josh Iorio, Carey Jewitt, Rodney H. Jones, Elizabeth Keating, Helen Kelly-Holmes, Nenagh Kemp, Michele Knobel, Samu Kytölä, Colin Lankshear, Carmen Lee, Lisa Newon, Yukiko Nishimura, Ruth Page, John C. Paolillo, Cornelius Puschmann, Philip Seargeant, Tereza Spilioti, Lauren Squires, Caroline Tagg, Jana Tereick, Piia Varis, Sam Waldron, Clare Wood.

List of figures

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Editors' Introduction

Section 1. Methods and Perspectives

Approaches to language variation

Network analysis

Digital ethnography

Multimodal analysis

Section 2. Language Resources, Genres, and Discourses

Digital genres and processes of remediation

Style, creativity and play

Multilingual resources and practices in digital communication

Digital discourses: a critical perspective

Section 3. Digital Literacies

Digital media and literacy development

Vernacular literacy: orthography and literacy practices

Texting and language learning

Section 4. Digital Communication in Public

Digital media in workplace interactions

Digital advertising

Corporate blogging and corporate social media

Twitter: design, discourse, and the implications of public text

Section 5. Digital Selves and Online and Offline Lives

The role of the body and space in digital multimodality

Second Life: language and virtual identity

Online multiplayer games

Relationality, friendship & identity in digital communication

Section 6. Communities, Networks, Relationships

Online communities and communities of practice

Facebook and the discursive construction of the social network

YouTube: language and discourse practices in participatory culture

Translocality

Section 7. New Debates and Further Directions

Social reading in a digital world

New frontiers in interactive multimodal communication

Moving between the big and the small: identity and interaction in digital contexts

Surveillance

Choose now! media, literacies, identities, politics

Index