Seargeant Philip, Tagg Caroline (Editors). The Language of Social Media: Identity and Community on the Internet

Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — xii, 260 pages. — ISBN: 978-1-137-02931-7.This timely book examines language on social media sites including Facebook and Twitter. Studies from leading language researchers, and experts on social media, explore how social media is having an impact on how we relate to each other, the communities we live in, and the way we present a sense of self in twenty-first century society.Introduction: The language of social media
The Performance of Identity on Social Media
The performance of a ludic self on social network(ing) sites
Hoaxes, hacking and humour: analysing impersonated identity on social network sites
‘Usually not one to complain but…’: constructing identities in user-generated online reviews
Language choice and self-presentation in social media: the case of university students in Hong Kong
Entextualization and resemiotization as resources for identification in social media
The Construction of Community on Social Media
CoffeeTweets: bonding around the bean on Twitter
Audience design and language choice in the construction and maintenance of translocal communities on social network sites
Youth, social media and connectivity in Japan
Investigating language policy in social media: translation practices on Facebook
Seeing Red: social media and football fan activism