Gretchen McCulloch

Because Internet (Bok)

Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured by the shape of our apps and platforms, from the grammar of status updates to the protocols of comments and @replies. Linguistically inventive online communities spread new slang and jargon with dizzying speed. What's more, social media is a vast laboratory of unedited, unfiltered words where we can watch language evolve in real time. Even the most absurd-looking slang has genuine patterns behind it. Internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch explores the deep forces that shape human language and influence the way we communicate with one another. She explains how your first social internet experience influences whether you prefer "LOL" or "lol," why ~sparkly tildes~ succeeded where centuries of proposals for irony punctuation had failed, what emoji have in common with physical gestures, and how the artfully disarrayed language of animal memes like lolcats and doggo made them more likely to spread.

Författare:	Gretchen McCulloch
Titel:	Because Internet
Typ:	Bok
Kategori:	Böcker/Historia & Arkeologi/Kulturhistoria
Releasedatum:	2020-07-21
Artikelnummer:	796400
Lagerstatus:	Beställningsvara Leveranstid: från 14 vardagar
EAN:	9780735210943
ISBN:	0735210943
Språk:	Engelska
Bandtyp:	Pocket
Titel:	Because Internet
Förlag:	Penguin USA