Foreword xi - Naomi S. Baron // List of Contributors xvii // Introduction: Fresh Perspectives on New Media Sociolinguistics xix - Crispin Thurlow and Kristine Mroczek // PART ONE: Metadiscursive Framings of New Media Language // 1. Voicing “Sexy Text": Heteroglossia and Erasure in TV News. Representations of Detroit’s Text Message Scandal 3 - Lauren Squires // 2. When Friends Who Talk Together Stalk Together: Online Gossip as Metacommunication 26 - Graham M. Jones, Bambi ?. Schieffelin, and Rachel E. Smith // 3. “Join Our Community of Translators”: Language Ideologies and/in Facebook 48 - Aoife Lenihan // PART TWO: Creative Genres: Texting, Messaging, and Multimodality // 4. Beyond Genre: Closings and Relational Work in Text Messaging 67 - Tereza Spilioti // 5. Japanese ??? Novels and Ideologies of Literacy 86 - Yukiko Nishimura // 6. Micro-Blogging and Status Updates on Facebook: Texts and Practices 110 - Carmen ?. M. Lee // PART THREE: Style and Stylization: Identity Play and Semiotic Invention // 7 Multimodal Creativity and Identities of Expertise in the Digital Ecology of a World of Warcraft Guild - Lisa Newon // 8. “Ride Hard, Live Forever”: Translocal Identities in an Online Community of Extreme Sports Christians 154 - Saija Peuronen // 9. Performing Girlhood through Typographic Play in Hebrew Blogs 177 - Carmel Vaisman //
PART FOUR: Stance: Ideological Position Taking and Social Categorization // 10. “Stuff White People Like": Stance, Class, Race, and Internet Commentary - Shana Walton and Alexandra Jaffe // 11. Banal Globalization? Embodied Actions and Mediated Practices in Tourists’ Online Photo Sharing 220 - Crispin Thurlow and Adam Jaworski // 12. Orienting to Arab Orientalisms: Language, Race, and Humor in a YouTube Video 251 - Elaine Chun and Keith Walters // PART FIVE: New Practices, Emerging Methodologies // 13. From Variation to Heteroglossia in the Study of Computer-Mediated Discourse 277 - Jannis Androutsopoulos // 14. sms science: An International Corpus-Based Texting Project and the Specific Challenges for Multilingual Switzerland 299 - Christa Dürscheid and Elisabeth Stark // 15. C me Sk8: Discourse, Technology, and “Bodies without Organs” 321 - Rodney H. Jones // Commentary - Susan S. Herring // Index 349