The Routledge Handbook of Language, Digital and AI Communication

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

Biography

 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.