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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: The internet sparked an explosion of informal writing.
Chapter 3: Internet linguistics is a fresh and thrilling field.
Chapter 4: We can sort internet users into distinct groups by exactly when they first came online.
Chapter 5: The internet exhibits a distinctive typographic style.
Chapter 6: Emoji occupy a vital gap in electronic communication.
Chapter 7: Social media and online communities are ideal examples of Ray Oldenburg’s third place.
Chapter 8: Memes are a mainstay of internet culture, functioning as inside jokes within various subcultures.
Description
It’s common knowledge that the internet has profoundly changed society, and Because Internet (2019) looks at one specific and significant change: how online culture has transformed the English language. These blinks show how the web has created new linguistic rules, remixed old ones and democratized writing itself. Along with these shifts, prepare to explore the memes, emoji and demographic makeup of the internet.
Who Should Listen
- Language nerds fascinated by recent changes in English
- Inflexible grammarians clinging on to past practices
- Parents consistently baffled by their children’s text messages