The spread of Covid-19 profoundly changed citizens' daily lives due to the introduction of
new modes of work and access to services based on smart technologies. Although the …

Social media practices and technologies are often part of how ethnographic research
participants navigate their wider social, material and technological worlds, and are equally …

Metadata such as the hashtag is an important dimension of social media communication.
Despite its important role in practices such as curating, tagging, and searching content, there …

The history of linguistics is punctuated by sea changes of culture afforded by new
technologies of communication–first writing, then audio recording and most recently Web 1.0 …

Scholars participate in online social networks for professional purposes. In such networks,
learning takes the form of participation and identity formation through engagement in and …

Microblogging services such as Twitter have become increasingly popular in recent years.
However, little is known about how personality is manifested and perceived in microblogs. In …

Situated in the gender digital divide framework, this survey study investigated the role of
computer anxiety in influencing female college students' perceptions toward Web 2.0 …

This article explores how we use social media to construe identities and align with others
into communities of shared values. The focus is on how 'users of language perform their …

Internet-based applications such as blogs, social network sites, online chat forums, text
messages, microblogs, and location-based communication services used from computers …

As use of the Internet has become increasingly widespread, the Internet has also become a
natural site for qualitative research. New researchable populations emerge, and illuminating …