Foreword
Naomi S.Baron
List of Contributors
Introduction: Fresh Perspectives on New Media Sociolinguistics
Crispin Thurlow and Kristine Mroczek
PART ONE: Metadiscursive Framings of New Media Language
1.Voicing""Sexy Text"": Heteroglossia and Erasure in TV News Representations of Detroits Text Message Scandal
Lawren Squires
2.When Friends Who Talk Together Stalk Together
Online Gossip as Metacommunication
Graham M.Jones, Bambi B.Schieffelin, and Rachel E Smith
3.""Join Our Community of Translators"": Language
Ideologies and/in Facebook
Aoife Lenihan
PART TWO: Creative Genres
Texting, Messaging, and Multimodality
4.Beyond Genre: Closings and Relational Work in
Text Messaging
Tereza Piloti
5.Japanese Keitai Novels and Ideologies of Literacy
Yukiko Nishimura
6.Micro- Blogging and Status Updates on Facebook
Texts and Practices
Carmen K M.Lee
PART THREE: Style and Stylization Identity Play and Semiotic Invention
7.Multimodal Creativity and Identities of Expertise in the Digital Ecology of a World of Warcraft Guild
Lisa Newon
8.""Ride Hard.Live Forever""Translocal Identities in an Online Community of Extreme Sports Christians
Saija Peuronen
9.Performing Girlhood through Typographic Play in Hebrew Blogs
Carmel Vaisman
PART FOUR: Stance: Ideological Position Taking and Social Categorization
10.""Stuff White People Like"":
Stance, Class, Race, and Internet Commentary
Shana Walton and Alexandra Jafe
11.Banal Globalization? Embodied Actions and Mediated Practices in Tourists Online Photo Sharing
Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski
12.Orienting to Arab Orientalisms:
Language, Race, and Humor in a You Tube Video
Flaine Chun and Keith Walters
PART FIVE: New Practices, Emerging Methodologies
13.From Variation to Heteroglossia in the Study of
Computer-Mediated Discourse
Jannis Androutsopoulos
14.sms4science: An International Corpus-Based
Texting Project and the Specific Challenges for
Multilingual Switzerland
krista Duirscheid and Elisabeth Stark
15.C me Sk8: Discourse, Technology, and
Bodies without Organs
Rodney H.Jones
Commentary
Susan S.Herring
Index