The Routledge Handbook of Language, Digital and AI Communication
Description
This new edition of The Routledge Handbook of Language, Digital and AI Communication reflects the profound transformations that digital communication has undergone over the past decade. Since the first edition, social media platforms have evolved rapidly, short-form video and influencer cultures have reshaped online interaction and artificial intelligence has begun to play an increasingly visible role in how communication is produced, circulated and interpreted. New chapters address developments such as visuality, the growing role of AI in communication, short-form video platforms, influencer cultures, cancel culture and the online-offline nexus and decolonising digital communication research
The volume introduces key research approaches and methods used to analyse digital discourse, interaction and multimodal communication. It brings together an international group of established and emerging scholars to examine how language operates across contemporary digital environments. The chapters address key themes including methods for studying digital communication, multimodal and platform-based discourse, online storytelling and identity, influencer and participatory cultures, political communication and the role of algorithms and AI in shaping interaction. Combining theoretical perspectives with empirical case-studies from diverse linguistic and cultural contexts, the author reflect on the methodological and ethical challenges of researching language in rapidly evolving digital settings. New chapters, updated perspectives and expanded global case-studies provide an up-to-date overview of a range of linguistic and sociolinguistic approaches to how digital technologies are transforming everyday communication.
This handbook is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in language and digital communication digital humanities, and any interdisciplinary programs examining the intersection of language, technology, and digital culture.
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Persons
Alexandra Georgakopoulou is Professor of Discourse Analysis & Sociolinguistics, King's College London. She is the Co-Editor of the Routledge Research in Narrative, Interaction & Discourse Series.
Tereza Spilioti is Assistant Professor in Discourse Analysis in Media and Culture at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece.
Content
List of contributors
Language and digital communication: platforms, practices and relations
Alexandra Georgakopoulou and Tereza Spilioti
PART I
Methods and perspectives
1 Conversation analytic approaches to digital interaction
Michal Marmostein and Katharina König
2 Narrative analysis and affective positioning: designing a legacy story on Instagram
Korina Giaxoglou
3 Natural language processing (NLP) and language variation
Dong Nguyen
4 Multimodal analysis
Carey Jewitt
5 Digital ethnography
Piia Varis
Postscript: from digital ethnography to technography
Alexandra Georgakopoulou
6 Online-offline nexus: genealogies and trajectories, scales and sites
Jannis Androutsopoulos
PART II
Semiotic resources, genres and literacies
7 Digital genres and processes of remediation
Theresa Heyd
8 Multilingual resources and practices in digital communication
Carmen Lee
9 Digital punctuation: forms, practices and ideologies
Florian Busch
10 Social photography and social media: synchronic and diachronic perspectives on selfie genres
Sumin Zhao
11 Digital literacies and language learning online
Ron Darvin
12 Digital media and literacy development
Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel
PART III
Digital selves and online-offline connections
13 Relationality and identity: presenting the self and making oneself visible in digital communities
Sage Graham and Dena Arendall
14 Identities and performances of social media influencers: a perspective from neoliberal technoculture
Mingyi Hou
15 Cancellations and consequences: the unapologetic and unyielding case of J. K. Rowling
Pilar G. Blitvich
16 Digitally mediated interaction as part of family life
Andreas Candefors Stæhr and Astrid Ag
17 Mobile conversations in context
Caroline Tagg
PART IV
Communities, networks and public(s)
18 Online communities and communities of practice
Jo Angouri
19 Digital advertising
Helen Kelly-Holmes
20 Disinformation in digital political communication: metapragmatics as an analytical lens
Cedric Deschrijver
21 Political activism and digital media
Ana Deumert and Nkululeko Mabandla
22 Chinese social media: regionality in digital discourse practices and affordances
Wei Wei
PART V
Concluding reflections and further directions
23 The magic touch: where haptics, reading and writing meet
Naomi S. Baron
24 Moving between the big and the small in digital contexts: identity and interaction in multi-modal and meta- data
Ruth Page
25 Surveillance
Rodney H. Jones
26 Choose now! Media, literacies, identities, politics
Charles Ess
27 Digital languaging and the global South: online and offline nexus
Sender Dovchin
28 Artificial intelligence (AI) language technology in society
Britta Schneider
Index