The Routledge Handbook of Language and Social Media around the World

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Handbook introduction

Caroline Tagg, Korina Giaxoglou and Kristin V. Lexander

SECTION 1

Africa: African perspectives on social media practices: literacy, politics, transnationalism, and artistic creativity

Edited by Kristin V. Lexander, Adjaratou O. Sall

Editors’ introduction

1          Texting as a collaborative literacy practice influenced by socio-cultural and sociolinguistic values: a Kenyan example

            Catherine Wawasi Kitetu

2          To keep from losing the way: connected migrants from sub-Saharan Africa

            Sandra Bornand and Idé Hamani

3          Journalistic rap in social media: a transnational West African practice (Le rap journalistique dans les réseaux sociaux: une pratique transnationale ouest-africaine)

            Moussa Diène and Mamadou Dramé

4          Political discourse and social media in Africa: online campaign, cultural politics and the #Obidient movement

            Innocent Chiluwa and Tolulope D. Iredele

SECTION 2

Americas: Language and social media in the Americas: struggles over political participation and citizenship

Edited by Ignacio José Antonio López Escarcena, Rodrigo Borba

Editors’ introduction

5          Navigating pre-authorial constraints on Facebook: the “seven A’s”

Lauren Zentz

6          Language and gender in YouTube comments: the case of inclusive language (lenguaje inclusivo)

            Juan Eduardo Bonnin and M. Florencia Rizzo

7          Researching the thematisation of inclusive language in social media

            Germán Canale

8          Transperipheral social media literacies: affects, ambiguities, transgressions

            Junot de Oliveira Maia

SECTION 3

East Asia: Creating spaces of creativity and criticality: Social media in East Asia

Edited by Yi Zhang, Sender Dovchin

Editors’ introduction

9          Celebration of language play and humour - Translanguaging and carnivalesque literacy practices in Chinese digital space

            Yi Zhang

10        Instagramming the almost real:  Japanese younger women and the spatiality of desire on Instagram

            Judit Kroo

11        Pro- and anti-social language of Korean social networking services (SNS)

            Eldin Malik, Ana Tankosić and Qian Gong

12        Linguistic ridicule and language ideologies on social media in Hong Kong

            Dennis Chau

13        The construction of national identity and the role of affect in Chinese social media

            Mingyi Hou, Ron Darvin and Guangxiang Liu

14        Understanding online hate speech through “grotesque realism”: Mongolia and Kazakhstan

            Sender Dovchin, Juldyz Samgulova, Bridget Goodman, Stephanie Dryden and Bolormaa Shinjee

SECTION 4

Europe: Designing audiences and platforms in European social media contexts

Edited by Korina Giaxoglou and Caroline Tagg

Editors’ introduction

15        Reflecting backward, reflecting forward on social media research around Europe

            Maria Sindoni

16        Refugees' digital multilingual practices: insights into linguistic creativity and identity

            Mohammad Ateek

17        Extremism and social media

Catherine Bouko

18        The production and politics of social media interfaces

            Lara Portmann

19        Quantified stories of illness and dying on social media

            Carsten Stage

SECTION 5

Middle East: Postdigital Middle East societies: interfacing online and offline dimensions of social media

Edited by Rania Magdi Fawzy and Amir H.Y. Salama

Editors’ introduction

20        The postdigital constitution of touristscapes: the Dubai travel app

            Rania Magdi Fawzy and Amir H.Y. Salama

21        Digitized confessional discourse: the case of Cairo Confessions

            Amany Y.A.A. Youseff

22        Diasporic identities at the online/offline juncture: insights from a postdigital ethnography of the Nubian diaspora

            Rania Magdi Fawzy, Amany El Shazly, Heba Morsi and Lubna Sherif

23        The postdigital turn and multimodal hermeneutics of Saudization in online advertising discourse

            Amir H.Y. Salama

SECTION 6

Oceania: The Oceanic Digital Revolution: Social Media and Linguistic Diversity in Contested (Post)Colonial Environments  

Edited by Stephanie Ketterer and Geoffrey Hobbis

Editors’ introduction

24        Melanesia in the digital age: langauge practices in social media and their interaction with language ideology and perception

            Leslie Vandeputte

25        Language contact phenomena on social media: perspectives from te Reo Māori and New Zealand English

            Andreea Calude and David Trye

26        Weaving translocal solidarity: examining the role of social media in sovereignty and demilitarization activism in Guåhan

            Manuel Cruz

27        Rethinking critical digital literacies education across Oceania: Disrupting the legacies of colonialism

            Fiona Willans

SECTION 7

South Asia: Social media as a space of resistance and digital linguistic citizenship in South Asia

Edited by Shaila Sultana and Obaid

Editors’ introduction

28        Language shaming on social media in Nepal

            Bal Krishna Sharma and Pramod K. Sah

29        “Sickular” and “bhakt” as polarized categories: the making of a Hindutva digital sphere on Indian Twitter (X)

            Rahul Sambaraju

30        Language of resistance and social justice: a case study of Pakistani digital ethnic speech communities

            Muhammad Shaban Rafi and Iram Amjad

31        Reciprocity between social media discourses and social movements in Bangladesh

            Al Muhmud Rumman and Shaila Sultana

32        “Listen to the lama”: analysing Bhutan’s digital media and online religious practices

            Dorji Wangchuk and Todd L. Sandel

Postscript

Ana Deumert

Index

Biography

Caroline Tagg is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and English Language at the Open University, UK.

Korina Giaxoglou is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and English Language at the Open University, UK.

Kristin Vold Lexander is Associate Professor in Norwegian Language at the University of Inland Norway.