What's new?
New 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 contents is available here. Check it out if you're interested in computer-mediated communication from a global perspective.
Language@Internet
On January 1, 2008, I took on the editorship of Language@Internet, a peer-reviewed, open-access online journal that publishes original research on language and language use mediated by the Internet, the World Wide Web, and mobile technologies. The journal was created in 2004 as part of the Digital Peer Publishing (DiPP) initiative of the Ministry of Science and Research of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and is archived by the University Libraries Center in Cologne, Germany.
Handbook of Pragmatics of CMC
Proposal and manuscript submissions are solicited for a Handbook of the Pragmatics of Computer-Mediated Communication, to be published by Mouton de Gruyter. The handbook, one of nine in a series of Handbooks of Pragmatics, will be edited by me, Dieter Stein (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany), and Tuija Virtanen (Åbo Akademi University, Finland). The (extended) deadline for submissions is March 15, 2008. See the Call for Papers for more information.HICSS Persistent Conversation Minitrack
The Ninth Persistent Conversation minitrack will take place at the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS-42) to be held in Waikaloa on the Big Island of Hawai'i, January 5-8, 2009. Abstracts are due April 21, 2008 (deadline extended), and 10-page papers are due June 15, 2008. More information about the minitrack and HICSS is available at http://www.visi.com/~snowfall/HICSS_PC.html.Recent Publications
Herring, S. C. (2008). Questioning the generational divide: Technological exoticism and adult construction of online youth identity. In: D. Buckingham (Ed.), Youth, Identity, and Digital Media (pp. 71-94). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Preprint: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/macarthur.pdfHerring, S. C., and Marken, J. (2008). Implications of gender consciousness for students in information technology. Women's Studies, 37(3), 229-256. Preprint: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/ws.pdf
Zelenkauskaite, A., and Herring, S. C. (2008). Television-mediated conversation: Coherence in Italian iTV SMS chat. Proceedings of the Forty-First Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Press. Preprint: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/hicss08.pdfHerring, S. C. (2007). A faceted classification scheme for computer-mediated discourse. Language@Internet, 4, article 1. http://www.languageatinternet.de/articles/761
Danet, B., and Herring, S. C. (2007). Multilingualism on the Internet. In: M. Hellinger and A. Pauwels (Eds.), Language and Communication: Diversity and Change. Handbook of Applied Linguistics 9. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Preprint: http://pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il/~msdanet/papers/multiling.pdf
Osman, G., and Herring, S. C. (2007). Interaction, facilitation, and deep learning in cross-cultural chat: A case study. The Internet and Higher Education, 10, 125-141. Preprint: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/osman.herring.pdf
Herring, S. C., Paolillo, J. C., Ramos Vielba, I., Kouper, I., Wright, E., Stoerger, S., Scheidt, L. A., and Clark, B. (2007). Language networks on LiveJournal. Proceedings of the Fortieth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Press. http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/hicss07.pdf
Herring, S. C., and Paolillo, J. C. (2006). Gender and genre variation in weblogs. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 10(4), 439-459. Preprint: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/jslx.pdf