• Foreword


• Introduction: Fresh Perspectives on New Media Sociolinguistics


• Part 1 - Metadiscursive Framings of New Media Language


• 1: Lauren Squires: Voicing "Sexy Text": Heteroglossia and Erasure in TV News Representations of Detroit's Text Message Scandal


• 2: Graham Jones, Bambi Schieffelin, and Rachel Smith: WHen Friends Who Talk Stalk Together: Online Gossip as Metacommunication


• 3: Aoife Lenihan: "Join Our Community of Translators": Language Idelogies and Facebook


• Part 2 - Creative Genres: Texting, Messaging and Multimodality


• 4: Tereza Spilioti: Beyond Genre: Closings and Relational Work in Text-Messaging


• 5: Yukiko Nishimura: Japanese Keitai Novels and Ideologies of Literacy


• 6: Carmen Lee: Micro-Blogging and Status Updates on Facebook: Texts and Practices


• 7: Lisa Newon: Multimodal Creativity and Identities of Expertise in the Digital Ecology of a World of Warcraft Guild


• 8: Saija Peuronen: Ride Hard, Live Forever: Translocal Identities in an Online Community of Extreme Sports Chrstians


• 9: Carmel Vaisman: Performing Girlhood Through Typographic Play in Hebrew Blogs


• Part 4 - Stance: Ideological Position-Taking and Social Categorization


• 10: Shana Walton and Alexandra Jaffe: Stuff White People Like: Stance, Class, Race and Internet Commentary


• 11: Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski: Banal Globalization? Embodied Actions and Mediated Practices in Tourists' Online Photo-Sharing


• 12: Elaine Chun and Keith Walters: Orienting to Arab Orientalism: Language, Race, and Humor in a YouTube Video


• Part 5 - New Practices, Emerging Methodologies


• 13: Jannis Androutsopoulos: From Variation to Heteroglossia in the Study of Computer-Mediated Discourse


• 14: Christa Dürscheid and Elisabeth Stark: SMS4science: An International Corpus-Based Texting Project and the Specific Challenges for Multilingual Switzerland


• 15: Rodney Jones: C me Sk8: Discourse, Technology and "Bodies Without Organs"


• Comment


• Index

Crispin Thurlow is Associate Professor of Language and Communication at University of Washington (Bothell).
Kristine Mroczek is a doctoral candidate in Communication at University of Washington (Seattle).

Digital Discourse offers a distinctly sociolinguistic perspective on the nature of language in digital technologies.