The second-generation Web has amplified and extended new ways of online
communication. Millions of people now interact through blogs, collaborate through wikis …

We often hear that society is becoming more visual, that we are becoming dominated by 'the
image'. It is certainly true that technology has made it much easier for us to produce and …

Weblogs (blogs) emerged as a grassroots phenomenon in the late 1990s and since then
their growth has been staggering. There has also been a growing body of scholarship with …

New communication technologies have reshaped media and politics. But who are the new
power players? The Hybrid Media System is a sweeping new theory of how political …

Media are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world. Since the beginning of
modernity, media have transformed the scale on which we act as social beings. And now in …

Over the last four decades, new modes of communication have redefined people's
engagement with media: media audiences are now also makers, influencers, followers …

FROM CONTROVERSIAL BEGINNINGS, the term Web 2.0 has become associated with a
fairly well-defined set of popular web-based platforms characterized by social interaction …

Cyberpragmatics is an analysis of Internet-mediated communication from the perspective of
cognitive pragmatics. It addresses a whole range of interactions that can be found on the …

GENRE: AN INTRODUCTION TO HISTORY, THEORY, RESEARCH, AND PEDAGOGY
provides a critical overview of the rich body of scholarship that has informed a “genre turn” in …

Internet memes are an increasingly widespread form of vernacular communication. This
paper uses LOLCats, one of the most popular and enduring Internet memes, as a case study …