While researchers have used conversation analysis (CA) methods to understand online talk
since the 1990s, to date there has been no systematic review of these studies to better …

This essay overviews the body of research known as political discourse analysis (PDA). I
begin by situating this work within the linguistic and political turns that took place in the latter …

In Language Online, David Barton and Carmen Lee investigate the impact of the online
world on the study of language. The effects of language use in the digital world can be seen …

Writing in Language Learning and Technology a little over a decade ago, Koutsogiannis
and Mitsikopoulou (2004, p. 83) described the Internet as a “worldwide literacy practice …

Although selfies may appear to be the latest fad, their popularity has had a transformational
influence on contemporary culture. Selfies invoke important issues in communication …

Focussing on nationalist discourse before, during and after the revolution of 2011, Reem
Bassiouney explores the two-way relationship between language in Egyptian public …

Social network sites are dynamic online socio-cultural arenas which give users ample and
unprecedented opportunities for self-presentation through the meshing of language with …

Climate change has rarely been out of the public spotlight in the first decade of this century.
The high‐profile international meetings and controversies such as 'climategate'have …

What does consumption in the global south signify, and how are its complexities
communicated in media discourses? This book looks at the media representation of …

Selfies, as the word implies, are visual presentations of one's self and as such can be
understood as photographic representations and formations of identity (Barthes, 1981; …