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With the growth and advancement of digital communication technology over the past decade and the advent of modern telecommunications and the Internet, the structure of human behavior and social interaction has been redesigned. This handbook is a compendium of over 50 scholarly works on discourse behavior in digital communication. The diverse, but related disciplinary perspectives presented in the handbook further establish how modern communication technologies are shaping discourse and social interaction all over the world, providing a comprehensive overview of empirical as well as theoretical issues on digital communication from various regions of the world. A Digital Forensic Analysis of Advance Fee Fraud (419 Scams) / Christine Ofulue -- Online Orthographies / Christiana Themistocleous -- Analyzing the Discourse of E-mail Communication / Yasemin Kirkgöz -- Spelling Practices in Text Messaging / Akinmade Akande, Olayiwola Akinwale -- Hyperjournalism for the Hyperreader / Arlette Dumittan -- Thematic Organization and the Analysis of Selected Online Academic Scientific Journals' Site / Foluke Olayinka -- Gender and Politeness in Indian Emails / Asha Kaul, Vaibhavi Kulkarni -- Users' Relevance on the Web / Francisco Yus -- Inferences in Discourse Comprehension of E-Mails / Moji Olateju, Oluwabunmi Adeleke -- The Semantics of Human Interaction in Chinese E-Communication / Adrian Tien -- Beliefs in GSM Text Messaging Among Academics in two Nigerian Universities / Akin Odebunmi, Moses Alo -- Functions and Strategies of Email Communication at the Workplace / Hadina Habil -- Visualization of Communication in Some Mobile Phone Directory and Call Log Icons / Ibrahim Olaosun -- Like a Poke on Facebook Emergent Semantics in Location-Aware Social Network Services / Anders Kofod-Petersen, Rebekah Wegener -- An Analytico-Philosophical Discourse to the Pragmatic Approach to Digital Communication in Nigeria / Oladele Balogun -- Impoliteness as a Model for Virtual Speech Community Building / Tracy LeBlanc -- The YouTubification of Politics, Impoliteness and Polarization / Pilar Blitvich -- Digital Communication in Indigenous Languages / Fúnmi Olúbòdé-Sàwè -- Discursive Practices and Creation of Identity Using the Mobile Phone / Clare Lloyd, Patricia Gillard -- Status and Email Construction in Three Hong Kong Workplaces / Charley Rowe -- "Pathfinding" Discourses of Self in Social Network Sites / Mariza Georgalou -- Social Interaction Process Analysis of Bengalis on Orkut / Anupam Das -- Membership and Activity in an Online Parenting Community / Sarah Pedersen, Janet Smithson -- The Sociolinguistics of SMS Ways to Identify Gender Boundaries / Muhammad Rafi -- Discursive Practice and the Nigerian Identity in Personal Emails / Innocent Chiluwa -- Constructing a Diaspora Anglophone Cameroonian Identity Online / Eric Anchimbe -- Multimodal Communication and Meta-Modal Discourse / Kristy Fägersten, Elin Holmsten, Una Cunningham -- 'Masculine Normal Guy Here': Lonely Hearts and 'Normal' Gays in Cyberspace / Martin Paviour-Smith -- The Dynamics of Language Mixing in Nigerian Digital Communication / Rotimi Taiwo -- Intertextuality and Constructing Islamic Identities Online / Najma Al Zidjaly -- Gender Consciousness in Computer-Mediated Discourse in Nigeria / Tunde Onadeko -- Communication in Construction Design Teams / Sue Sherratt ... [et al.] -- Humor and Play in CMC / Ilona Vandergriff -- SMS Texting Practices and Communicative Intention / Susana Sotillo -- Chat Discourse / Cláudia Silva -- First Person Pronouns in Online Diary Writing / John Newman, Laura Teddiman -- New Media and Cultural Identity in the Global Society / Guo-Ming Chen, Kai Zhang -- An Integrated Approach to Interactions in Cyberplaces / Eleonora Brivio, Francesca Ibarra, Carlo Galimberti -- Relational Work in Synchronous Text-Based CMC of Virtual Teams / Erika Darics -- Tracing the Non-Debatable Topic in Online Discussion / Gabriele Bechtel -- Using CMC in order to investigate the language system / Elke Hentschel -- Computational and Engineering Issues in Human Computer Interaction Systems for Supporting Communication in African Languages / Tunji Odejobi, Tunde Adegbola When the Online Conversation is Prompted / Boyd Davis, Mary Smith, Shu-Chiao Tsai -- A Corpus-Based Approach to Teaching English in Abstracts / Amelia Cava -- Traditional and Virtual in Nigerian Oral English Pedagogy / Taiwo Soneye -- From CMC Technologies to Social Participation Technologies / Chaka Chaka -- An Appraisal of a Computer-Based Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Course for Nigerian English Teachers and Teacher-trainers / Kehinde Ayoola -- Engagement in the Second Life Virtual World with Students / Caroline Ho -- Students' Evaluation of a MOODLE Resource in the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria / Titi Fola-Adebayo -- The Influence of the Cultural and Linguistic Orientations of Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) Students on Their Responses to Literatures on the Internet / Rahma Al-Mahrooqi, Victoria Tuzlukova -- Attitudes to Online Reading and Web-Based Instructions in Developing Societies / Olushola Are -- Second Language Writing Instruction through Blended Learning / Alison Nagel, Kai Woodfin -- New Directions in Understanding Cyberbullying / Artemio Ramirez, Kellie Palazzolo, Matthew Savage -- Virtual Research Communities / Victoria Tuzlukova, Irina Rozina -- A Pragmatic Approach to Analysing CMC Discourse / Christina Howell-Richardson -- Politeness as a Theoretical and Empirical Framework for Studying Relational Communication in Computer-mediated Contexts / David Morand --
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