How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language has been abridged for online publication. The book is out on July ...

While the Internet's use of language might change rapidly over the next few years, Johnson, Crystal and Jansen all point out that educators need to ensure that students maintain an academic ...

Whether you're extremely online or still confused by how a simple period can be interpreted as passive-aggressive, linguist Gretchen McCulloch has a guide to how our on-screen speech is morphing.

The Internet Isn't Available in Most Languages Despite all the hype about how it has connected the world, the web is more insular than you might think.

Its alpha release of natural language-powered Caffeine AI signaled an interest in creating what the foundation has termed ...

Content moderation, with all its fluidity and platform-specific nuances, has the potential to force our language to evolve at an accelerated rate, often silencing marginalized communities.

Are you confused with Internet language? Did you know ‘SMH’, for example, has been so pervasive, it has managed to cement its place in the online Oxford dictionary.

A Stanford “language guide” has the Internet up in arms after it discouraged the use of words like “American,” “Hispanic” and “cakewalk.” ...

The arrival of the Internet age has already radically changed the way we communicate. We have developed this page to track the relationship of languages and the Internet, looking at use of language ...

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