Language and new media
Subtitle: linguistic, cultural, and technological evolutions
By: edited by Charley Rowe and Eva L. Wyss ; with a foreword by Naomi S. Baron.
Contributors: Rowe, Charley.; Wyss, Eva Lia.
Series: New media : policy and social research issues
Publisher: Hampton Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cresskill, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781572739291; 9781572739307
Subjects: Mass media and language; Language and the Internet; Communication and technology; Online etiquette
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Inter-activity : how new media can help us to understand old media / Rodney H. Jones; title: Text-based conversations over instant messaging : linguistic changes and young people's sociability / Anabel Quan-Haase; title: Just the same old story? : the linguistics of text messaging and its cultural repercussions / Alex Bergs; title: E-mail play and accelerated change / Charley Rowe; title: From the bridal letter to online flirting : changes in text type from the 19th century to the Internet era / Eva L. Wyss; title: From postcard to e-card : tradition and change in the smallest spaces / Hajo Diekmannshenke; title: History now : media development and textual genesis of Wikipedia / Christian Kohl, Wolf-Andreas Liebert, and Thomas Metten; title: Radio broadcasting : from secret to public to private / Jüerg Häuesermann; title: Is television language a spoken variety? : a corpus based study of the language of Italian television / Stefania Spina; title: Disclosing and announcing, interpreting, and entertaining : a comparative study of the history of TV news presentation / Martin Luginbühl; title: Technologies and techniques : the (n)etiquette of telephone and e-mail communication / Sharon Millar; title: Diary 2.0? : a genre moves from page to screen / Laurie McNeill; title: Wikis, Wikipedia, and collaborative technology : new challenges and emergent language styles / Antonella Elia; title: Hypertext and the evolution of website genres / Eva-Maria Jakobs.