Digital Orality

Ong's "secondary orality" in the digital age. Computer-mediated communication, social media linguistics, texting, emoji, and how digital media creates new hybrid forms.

Secondary Orality

Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word
Ong, 1982 · Chapter 6: Secondary orality concept introduced
Secondary Orality and Consciousness Today
Ong, 1987 · The concept updated for media age
What Ong Got Wrong About Secondary Orality
Soffer, 2010 · Critiques and refinements

David Crystal

Language and the Internet
Crystal, 2001/2006 · Cambridge · Definitive "Netspeak" analysis
Txtng: The Gr8 Db8
Crystal, 2008 · Oxford · Debunking texting myths
Internet Linguistics: A Student Guide
Crystal, 2011 · Routledge · Textbook introduction

Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC)

The Handbook of Computer-Mediated Communication
Herring et al. (eds.), 2013 · Blackwell
Stance Classification in Online Debates
Walker et al., ArgMining 2014

Social Media Linguistics

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
McCulloch, 2019 · Riverhead · Popular linguistics
BERTweet: Pre-trained for English Tweets
Nguyen et al., arXiv:2005.10200
Twitter Part-of-Speech Tagging for All
Owoputi et al., NAACL 2013

Emoji & Multimodality

Emoji-Based Sentiment Analysis
Felbo et al., ACL 2017 · DeepMoji
The Emoji Semantics Project
LREC 2020 · Cross-platform emoji meaning
Pragmatics of Emoji: Interpretation of Emoticons in Texts
Herring & Dainas, 2017 · Language@Internet

Podcasts & Audio

Spotify Podcast Dataset
Clifton et al., EMNLP 2020 · Large-scale transcript corpus
What Makes a Good Podcast?
arXiv:2004.04270 · Content and style analysis
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