Routledge Handbook of Language and Social Media around the World

Caroline Tagg is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and English Language at the Open University, UK.Korina Giaxoglou is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and English Language at the Open University, UK.Kristin Vold Lexander is Associate Professor in Norwegian Language at the University of Inland Norway.

• Handbook introductionCaroline Tagg, Korina Giaxoglou and Kristin V. LexanderSECTION 1Africa: African perspectives on social media practices: literacy, politics, transnationalism, and artistic creativity Edited by Kristin V. Lexander, Adjaratou O. SallEditors’ introduction1 Texting as a collaborative literacy practice influenced by socio-cultural and sociolinguistic values: a Kenyan exampleCatherine Wawasi Kitetu2 To keep from losing the way: connected migrants from sub-Saharan AfricaSandra Bornand and Idé Hamani3 Journalistic rap in social media: a transnational West African practice (Le rap journalistique dans les réseaux sociaux: une pratique transnationale ouest-africaine)Moussa Diène and Mamadou Dramé4 Political discourse and social media in Africa: online campaign, cultural politics and the #Obidient movementInnocent Chiluwa and Tolulope D. IredeleSECTION 2 Americas: Language and social media in the Americas: struggles over political participation and citizenshipEdited by Ignacio José Antonio López Escarcena, Rodrigo BorbaEditors’ introduction5 Navigating pre-authorial constraints on Facebook: the “seven A’s”Lauren Zentz6 Language and gender in YouTube comments: the case of inclusive language (lenguaje inclusivo)Juan Eduardo Bonnin and M. Florencia Rizzo7 Researching the thematisation of inclusive language in social mediaGermán Canale8 Transperipheral social media literacies: affects, ambiguities, transgressionsJunot de Oliveira MaiaSECTION 3East Asia: Creating spaces of creativity and criticality: Social media in East AsiaEdited by Yi Zhang, Sender DovchinEditors’ introduction9 Celebration of language play and humour - Translanguaging and carnivalesque literacy practices in Chinese digital spaceYi Zhang10 Instagramming the almost real: Japanese younger women and the spatiality of desire on InstagramJudit Kroo11 Pro- and anti-social language of Korean social networking services (SNS)Eldin Milak, Ana Tankosić and Qian Gong12 Linguistic ridicule and language ideologies on social media in Hong KongDennis Chau13 The construction of national identity and the role of affect in Chinese social mediaMingyi Hou, Ron Darvin and Guangxiang Liu14 Understanding online hate speech through “grotesque realism”: Mongolia and KazakhstanSender Dovchin, Juldyz Samgulova, Bridget Goodman, Stephanie Dryden and Bolormaa ShinjeeSECTION 4Europe: Designing audiences and platforms in European social media contextsEdited by Korina Giaxoglou and Caroline TaggEditors’ introduction15 Reflecting backward, reflecting forward on social media research around EuropeMaria Grazia Sindoni16 Refugees' digital multilingual practices: insights into linguistic creativity and identityMohammad Ateek17 Extremism and social mediaCatherine Bouko18 The production and politics of social media interfacesLara Portmann19 Quantified stories of illness and dying on social mediaCarsten StageSECTION 5Middle East: Postdigital Middle East societies: interfacing online and offline dimensions of social mediaEdited by Rania Magdi Fawzy and Amir H.Y. SalamaEditors’ introduction20 The postdigital constitution of touristscapes: the Dubai travel appRania Magdi Fawzy and Amir H.Y. Salama21 Digitized confessional discourse: the case of Cairo ConfessionsAmany Y.A.A. Youseff22 Diasporic identities at the online/offline juncture: insights from a postdigital ethnography of the Nubian diasporaRania Magdi Fawzy, Amany El Shazly, Heba Morsi and Lubna Sherif23 The postdigital turn and multimodal hermeneutics of Saudization in online advertising discourseAmir H.Y. SalamaSECTION 6Oceania: The Oceanic Digital Revolution: Social Media and Linguistic Diversity in Contested (Post)Colonial Environments Edited by Stephanie Ketterer and Geoffrey HobbisEditors’ introduction24 Melanesia in the digital age: langauge practices in social media and their interaction with language ideology and perceptionLeslie Vandeputte25 Language contact phenomena on social media: perspectives from te Reo Māori and New Zealand EnglishAndreea Calude and David Trye26 Weaving translocal solidarity: examining the role of social media in sovereignty and demilitarization activism in GuåhanManuel Cruz27 Rethinking critical digital literacies education across Oceania: Disrupting the legacies of colonialismFiona WillansSECTION 7South Asia: Social media as a space of resistance and digital linguistic citizenship in South AsiaEdited by Shaila Sultana and ObaidEditors’ introduction28 Language shaming on social media in NepalBal Krishna Sharma and Pramod K. Sah29 “Sickular” and “bhakt” as polarized categories: the making of a Hindutva digital sphere on Indian Twitter (X)Rahul Sambaraju30 Language of resistance and social justice: a case study of Pakistani digital ethnic speech communitiesMuhammad Shaban Rafi and Iram Amjad31 Reciprocity between social media discourses and social movements in BangladeshAl Muhmud Rumman and Shaila Sultana32 “Listen to the lama”: analysing Bhutan’s digital media and online religious practicesDorji Wangchuk and Todd L. SandelPostscriptAna DeumertIndex