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April, May, & June 2025: Lauren writes a gesture book!
Back in 2017, when I was deep in the writing process for Because Internet, I was feeling stuck on the emoji chapter and Lauren Gawne, my cohost on the then-baby Lingthusiasm podcast (we were less than a year old!) offered to read the current draft. I’ll never forget her comment that led to me rewriting the whole chapter: “You realize this is all related to gesture, right?”
Immediately, I wanted to
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Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
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Arroba lengua: Cómo internet ha cambiado nuestro idioma
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“Like the big collaborative projects of the internet, such as Wikipedia and Firefox, like the decentralized network of websites and machines that make up the internet itself, language is a network, a web. Language is the ultimate participatory democracy. To put it in technological terms, language is humanity's most spectacular open source project.”
― Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
― Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
“Standard” language and “correct” spelling are collective agreements, not eternal truths, and collective agreements can change.”
― Because Internet: Understanding how language is changing
― Because Internet: Understanding how language is changing
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“In 1995, psychiatrist Ivan Goldberg coined the term internet addiction disorder. He wrote a satirical essay about “people abandoning their family obligations to sit gazing into their computer monitor as they surfed the Internet.” Intending to parody society’s obsession with pathologizing everyday behaviors, he inadvertently advanced the idea. Goldberg responded critically when academics began discussing internet addiction as a legitimate disorder: “I don’t think Internet addiction disorder exists any more than tennis addictive disorder, bingo addictive disorder, and TV addictive disorder exist. People can overdo anything. To call it a disorder is an error.”
― It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
― It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
“Listening to teens talk about social media addiction reveals an interest not in features of their computers, smartphones, or even particular social media sites but in each other.”
― It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
― It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
“More often than not, what people put up online using social media is widely accessible because most systems are designed such that sharing with broader or more public audiences is the default. Many popular systems require users to take active steps to limit the visibility of any particular piece of shared content. This is quite different from physical spaces, where people must make a concerted effort to make content visible to sizable audiences.8 In networked publics, interactions are often public by default, private through effort.”
― It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
― It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
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A group for discussing linguistic theories, reading linguistics works and in general discovering hidden knowledge about words and language.
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This is a group for people who write, read or are otherwise interested in conlangs (constructed languages) in literature of all kinds - both fiction w ...more
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Would you like to talk about language? Do you like reading about language? Then this is your group :)
The Lazy Person’s Book Club | Cercle de lecture pour les paresseux et paresseuses
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This is the GoodReads page for the real-world book club hosted by Heather. Here you can find a list of the books discussed or mentioned at our meeting ...more
