Provides a wide-ranging survey of the sociolinguistic issues raised by the impact of information technology. The author demonstrates how and in which ways the new technologies both affect human communication and are in turn affected by the way people communicate using the technologies.
Denise Murray is Emeritus Professor at Macquarie University, Australia and San José State University, California, USA. She is the author of What English Language Teachers Need to Knows (Vol 3, Routledge, 2014).
General Editor's Preface1. Introduction2. People communicating3. The computer at work4. The computer as phone message service5. The computer as communication site6. The computer as text processor7. The computer as knowledge broker8. Public highway or private road? or Who is in charge?GlossaryReferencesIndex