This new edition of The Routledge Handbook of Language, Digital and AI Communication reflects the profound transformations that digital communication has undergone over the past decade. Since the first edition, social media platforms have evolved rapidly, short-form video and influencer cultures have reshaped online interaction and artificial intelligence has begun to play an increasingly visible role in how communication is produced, circulated and interpreted. New chapters address developments such as visuality, the growing role of AI in communication, short-form video platforms, influencer cultures, cancel culture and the online-offline nexus and decolonising digital communication researchThe volume introduces key research approaches and methods used to analyse digital discourse, interaction and multimodal communication. It brings together an international group of established and emerging scholars to examine how language operates across contemporary digital environments. The chapters address key themes including methods for studying digital communication, multimodal and platform-based discourse, online storytelling and identity, influencer and participatory cultures, political communication and the role of algorithms and AI in shaping interaction. Combining theoretical perspectives with empirical case-studies from diverse linguistic and cultural contexts, the author reflect on the methodological and ethical challenges of researching language in rapidly evolving digital settings. New chapters, updated perspectives and expanded global case-studies provide an up-to-date overview of a range of linguistic and sociolinguistic approaches to how digital technologies are transforming everyday communication.This handbook is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in language and digital communication digital humanities, and any interdisciplinary programs examining the intersection of language, technology, and digital culture.
Alexandra Georgakopoulou is Professor of Discourse Analysis & Sociolinguistics, King’s College London. She is the Co-Editor of the Routledge Research in Narrative, Interaction & Discourse Series.Tereza Spilioti is Assistant Professor in Discourse Analysis in Media and Culture at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece.
List of contributorsLanguage and digital communication: platforms, practices and relationsAlexandra Georgakopoulou and Tereza SpiliotiPART IMethods and perspectives1 Conversation analytic approaches to digital interactionMichal Marmostein and Katharina König2 Narrative analysis and affective positioning: designing a legacy story on InstagramKorina Giaxoglou3 Natural language processing (NLP) and language variationDong Nguyen4 Multimodal analysisCarey Jewitt5 Digital ethnography Piia Varis Postscript: from digital ethnography to technographyAlexandra Georgakopoulou6 Online-offline nexus: genealogies and trajectories, scales and sitesJannis AndroutsopoulosPART IISemiotic resources, genres and literacies7 Digital genres and processes of remediationTheresa Heyd8 Multilingual resources and practices in digital communicationCarmen Lee9 Digital punctuation: forms, practices and ideologiesFlorian Busch10 Social photography and social media: synchronic and diachronic perspectives on selfie genresSumin Zhao11 Digital literacies and language learning onlineRon Darvin12 Digital media and literacy developmentColin Lankshear and Michele KnobelPART IIIDigital selves and online-offline connections13 Relationality and identity: presenting the self and making oneself visible in digital communitiesSage Graham and Dena Arendall14 Identities and performances of social media influencers: a perspective from neoliberal technocultureMingyi Hou15 Cancellations and consequences: the unapologetic and unyielding case of J. K. RowlingPilar G. Blitvich16 Digitally mediated interaction as part of family lifeAndreas Candefors Stæhr and Astrid Ag17 Mobile conversations in contextCaroline TaggPART IVCommunities, networks and public(s)18 Online communities and communities of practiceJo Angouri19 Digital advertisingHelen Kelly-Holmes20 Disinformation in digital political communication: metapragmatics as an analytical lensCedric Deschrijver21 Political activism and digital mediaAna Deumert and Nkululeko Mabandla22 Chinese social media: regionality in digital discourse practices and affordancesWei WeiPART VConcluding reflections and further directions23 The magic touch: where haptics, reading and writing meetNaomi S. Baron24 Moving between the big and the small in digital contexts: identity and interaction in multi-modal and meta- dataRuth Page25 SurveillanceRodney H. Jones26 Choose now! Media, literacies, identities, politicsCharles Ess27 Digital languaging and the global South: online and offline nexusSender Dovchin28 Artificial intelligence (AI) language technology in societyBritta SchneiderIndex