What's new?
Language@Internet
Language@Internet has a new domain name: www.languageatinternet.org. The journal's online content system has also been updated, as of October 5th, 2011. Language@Internet, a peer-reviewed, open-access online journal, continues to seek quality submissions that report original research on language and language use mediated by the Internet, the World Wide Web, or mobile technologies. Submissions and inquiries should be emailed to Susan Herring, Editor-in-Chief, at langint@indiana.edu.
Handbook of Pragmatics of CMC
Work on the Handbook of the Pragmatics of Computer-Mediated Communication, to be published by Mouton de Gruyter, is proceeding apace. The handbook, one of nine in a series of Handbooks of Pragmatics, is co-edited by me, Dieter Stein (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany), and Tuija Virtanen (Åbo Akademi University, Finland), and will cover three domains: 1) Pragmatically-focused research on genres or modes of CMC, 2) pragmatic approaches to CMC phenomena, and 3) traditional pragmatic phenomena as they are manifested in CMC. Publication is projected for 2012.HICSS Persistent Conversation Minitrack
The Eleventh Persistent Conversation minitrack that took place at the 43rd Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS-43) was the last. After much deliberation, Tom Erickson and I decided to discontinue the minitrack and its associated workshop. We've greatly enjoyed organizing it, but 10 years (11 for the minitrack) is a long time, and it's time to move on to other things. For information about the Persistent Conversation minitrack and workshop and access to the 89 papers produced during the minitrack's tenure, see the Persistent Conversation home page.
Multilingual Internet Book
The Multilingual Internet: Language, Culture, and Communication Online, co-edited by Brenda Danet and Susan C. Herring, was published by Oxford University Press in May, 2007. A description of the book can be found on the OUP website. A table of content s is available here. Check it out if you're interested in computer-mediated communication from a global perspective.
Selected Recent Publications
Herring, S. C. (In press, 2012). Discourse in Web 2.0: Familiar, reconfigured, and emergent. In D. Tannen & A. M. Tester (Eds.), Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2011: Discourse 2.0: Language and new media. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. Prepublication version: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/GURT.2011.prepub.pdf
Herring, S. C. (In press, 2012). Grammar and electronic communication. In C. Chapelle (Ed.), Encyclopedia of applied linguistics. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackw ell. Preprint: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/e-grammar.2011.pdf
Herring, S. C. (In press, 2012). Relevance in computer-mediated conversation. In S. C. Herring, D. Stein, & T. Virtanen (Eds.), Handbook of pragmatics of computer-mediated communication. Berlin: Mouton. Prepublication version: http://ella.slis.ind iana.edu/~herring/relevance.pdf
Kapidzic, S., & Herring, S. C. (2011). Gender, communication, and self-presentation in teen chatrooms revisited: Have patterns changed? Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 17(1), 39-59. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2011.01561.x/full
Callahan, E., & Herring, S. C. (2011). Cultural bias in Wikipedia articles about famous persons. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. DOI: 10.1002/asi. http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/callahan.herring.2011.pdf
Dresner, E., & Herring, S. C. (2010). Functions of the non-verbal in CMC: Emoticons and illocutionary force. Communication Theory, 20, 249-268. Preprint: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/emoticons.pdf
Herring, S. C. (2010). Who's got the floor in computer-mediated conversation? Edelsky's gender patterns revisited. Language@Internet, 7, article 8. Preprint: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/floor.2010.pdf
Herring, S. C. (2010). Web content analysis: Expanding the paradigm. In J. Hunsinger, M. Allen, & L. Klastrup (Eds.), The International Handbook of Internet Research (pp. 233-249). Berlin: Springer Verlag. Preprint: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/webca.2008.pdf
Herring, S. C., & Zelenkauskaite, A. (2009). Symbolic capital in a virtual heterosexual market: Abbreviation and insertion in Italian iTV SMS. Written Communication, 26(1). Preprint: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/wc.2009.pdf
Herring, S. C., Kutz, D. O., Paolillo, J. C., & Zelenkauskaite, A. (2009). Fast talking, fast shooting: Text chat in an online first-person game. Proceedings of the Forty-Second Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Press. Preprint: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/hicss.bzflag.pdf
Honeycutt, C., & Herring, S. C. (2009). Beyond microblogging: Conversation and collaboration via Twitter. Proceedings of the Forty-Second Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Press. Preprint: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/honeycutt.herring.2009.pdf
de Siqueira, A., & Herring, S. C. (2009). Temporal patterns in student-advisor instant messaging exchanges: Individual variation and accommodation. Proceedings of the Forty-Second Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Press. Preprint: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/desiqueira.herring.2009.pdf