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Table of Contents

Preface
1. Email to Your Brain: Language in an Online and Mobile World
2. Language Online: The Basics
3. Controlling the Volume: Everyone a Language Czar
4. Are Instant Messages Speech? The World of IM
5. My Best Day: Managing "Buddies" and "Friends"
6. Having Your Say: Blogs and Beyond
7. Going Mobile: Cell Phones in Context
8. "Whatever": Is the Internet Destroying Language?
9. Gresham's Ghost: Challenges to Written Culture
10. The People We Become: Costs of Being Always On

About the Author

Naomi S. Baron is Professor of Linguistics Emerita at American University in Washington, DC. A leading authority on language use in the age of the computer, she has studied instant messaging, text messaging, mobile phone practices, multitasking behavior, and Facebook usage by American college students, along with cross-cultural mobile phone use. She is the author of six earlier books, including Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved
and Where It's Heading. Baron has been interviewed in such media as Good Morning America, ABC News 20/20, CNN, the Diane Rehm Show, Fresh Air, PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, All Things Considered, Morning Edition, BBC, The
New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and Wired Magazine.

Reviews

"Naomi Baron artfully combines historical surveys, research summaries, and findings of her own to give us a comprehensive, insightful, and thoughtful handbook for understanding electronic communication-what it is, how it works, and how it's changing our lives and our interpersonal relationships." --Deborah Tannen, Georgetown University, author of You Just Don't Understand and You're Wearing That? Understanding Mothers and Daughters in
Conversation
"Naomi Baron skillfully weaves together cutting-edge technology topics with historical vignettes, and scholarship with provocative views. She is not afraid to take a stance on hot-button issues, be it the effects of the Internet on language change, whether writing done in electronic media is debasing standards for the written word, or whether we are changing fundamentally as social and thinking beings as a result of being constantly connected through
technology." -- Susan C. Herring, Professor of Information Science and Linguistics, Indiana University
"Naomi Baron's wonderful book points out the many unique and fascinating aspects of what we now take for granted: the emerging languages of the Internet and cell phone. She skillfully explains how these new technologies are transforming the ways in which we
communicate, along with how we relate to each other in everyday life."-Barry Wellman, S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto
"In Always On Naomi Baron analyzes the ebb and flow of language as it confronts ever-new forms of mediation. She is on the forefront of examining how technology and language interact and how they form the lens through which we see the world. Baron helped us understand the effect of email on language in her prize-winning book From Alphabet to Email. Now she uses the same keen insight and crackling good prose to examine instant messaging, mobile based text
messages, online social networking, and the effects electronically-mediated communication is having upon our language and upon ourselves." -Rich Ling, Senior Researcher, Telenor

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