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
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.
"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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