Includes topics that explores: how Web 2.0 can be conceptualized and theorized; the role of English on the worldwide web; how use of social media such as Facebook and texting shape communication with family and friends; electronic discourse and assessment in educational and other settings; and more.

Introduction Deborah Tannen and Anna Marie Trester, Georgetown University 1. Discourse in Web 2.0: Familiar, Reconfigured, and Emergent Susan C. Herring, Indiana University-Bloomington 2. Polities and Politics of Ongoing Assessments: Evidence from Video-Gaming and Blogging Herve Varenne, Gillian "Gus" Andrews, Aaron Chia-Yuan Hung, and Sarah Wessler, Teachers College, Columbia University 3. Participatory Culture and Metalinguistic Discourse: Performing and Negotiating German Dialects on YouTube Jannis Androutsopoulos, University of Hamburg 4. "My English Is So Poor...So I Take Photos": Metalinguistic Discourses about English on Flickr Carmen Lee, Chinese University of Hong Kong 5. "Their Lives Are So Much Better Than Ours!": The Ritual (Re)construction of Social Identity in Holiday Cards Jenna Mahay, Concordia University Chicago 6. The Medium Is the Metamessage: Conversational Style in New Media Interaction Deborah Tannen, Georgetown University 7. Bringing Mobiles into the Conversation: Applying a Conversation Analytic Approach to the Study of Mobiles in Co-present Interaction Stephen M. DiDomenico, Rutgers University and Jeffrey Boase, Ryerson University 8. Facework on Facebook: Conversations on Social Media Laura West and Anna Marie Trester, Georgetown University 9. Mock Performatives in Online Discussion Boards: Towards a Discourse-Pragmatic Model of Computer-Mediated CommunicationTuija Virtanen, Abo Akademi University 10. Re- and Pre-authoring Experiences in Email Supervision: Creating and Revising Professional Meanings in an Asynchronous Medium Cynthia Gordon and Melissa Luke, Syracuse University 11. Blogs: A Medium for Intellectual Engagement with Course Readings and ParticipantsMarianna Ryshina-Pankova and Jens Kugele, Georgetown University 12. Reading in Print or Onscreen: Better, Worse, or About the Same? Naomi S. Baron, American University 13. Fakebook: Synthetic Media, Pseudo-sociality, and the Rhetorics of Web 2.0 Crispin Thurlow, University of Washington Index

A fascinating collection of papers that takes the study of computer-mediated communication in some new directions while reminding us of the value of close attention to the details of discourse. This volume will be required reading for students of language in new media.

A fascinating collection of papers that takes the study of computer-mediated communication in some new directions while reminding us of the value of close attention to the details of discourse. This volume will be required reading for students of language in new media. -- Barbara Johnstone, professor of rhetoric and linguistics, Carnegie Mellon University