The Language of Social Media: Identity and Community on the Internet

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: The language of social media....Pages 1-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
The performance of a ludic self on social network(ing) sites....Pages 23-45
Hoaxes, hacking and humour: analysing impersonated identity on social network sites....Pages 46-64
‘Usually not one to complain but…’: constructing identities in user-generated online reviews....Pages 65-90
Language choice and self-presentation in social media: the case of university students in Hong Kong....Pages 91-111
Entextualization and resemiotization as resources for identification in social media....Pages 112-136
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
CoffeeTweets: bonding around the bean on Twitter....Pages 139-160
Audience design and language choice in the construction and maintenance of translocal communities on social network sites....Pages 161-185
Youth, social media and connectivity in Japan....Pages 186-207
Investigating language policy in social media: translation practices on Facebook....Pages 208-227
Seeing Red: social media and football fan activism....Pages 228-254
Back Matter....Pages 255-260