Category: Uncategorized

RATE OF CHANGE. "There is a popular video on YouTube which assesses the rate of change in contemporary society, and illustrates beyond all doubt how this change is growing exponentially. The video particularly notes that the take up of social media has been extremely rapid in comparison to similar technologies." https://lnkd.in/dffrpRZ View in LinkedIn

READ CAREFULLY. "Social media has become an integral part of modern society. There are general social networks with user bases larger than the population of most countries." This is unique in our planet. https://lnkd.in/gJ_sWNx View in LinkedIn

RAPID ADOPTION. "Not only has Instagram become an important social media site and a central part of the popular culture, but the speed with which it has achieved this is also particularly notable." https://lnkd.in/dffrpRZ View in LinkedIn

MEDIA-RICH. "Many children’s bedrooms are media-rich environments—a growing proportion of children have computers in bedroom with online access. Highly motivated to create a separate autonomous space where children can experiment and develop their personality, youngsters seek to evade parental control." https://lnkd.in/d8-nHvR View in LinkedIn

AGENT OF CHANGE. "Instagram attracted over 100 million users in under two years from its launch, underlining how quickly this social media platform attracted users." https://lnkd.in/dffrpRZ View in LinkedIn

CHANGED COMMUNICATION. "Syntax aside, social media has also prompted a more subtle revolution in the way we communicate. We share more personal information, but also communicate with larger audiences. Our communication styles consequently become more informal and more open, and this seeps into other areas of life and culture." https://lnkd.in/dBD8zjV View in LinkedIn

DIFFUSION OF WORDS. "Because of social media, words are moving around the world within weeks and months, whereas before, it could take a few years." https://lnkd.in/dKdj57e View in LinkedIn

FASTER ADOPTION. "The fast pace of change on the internet means we are adopting more words faster than ever before. Language itself changes slowly, but the internet has sped up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly." https://lnkd.in/dKdj57e View in LinkedIn

"AN ALPHABET SOUP of acronyms, abbreviations, and neologisms has grown up around technologically mediated communication to help us be understood." https://lnkd.in/dBD8zjV View in LinkedIn

CYBERLINGUISTICS is evolving before our eyes. The younger generation are using emotion" " symbols in shorthand for words, as they text rather than speak. We are witnessing the evolution of a new social language. "Some chat and instant message programs will automatically translate text smiley faces into graphical emoticons. The word emoticon is defined as a pictorial representation of a facial expression." https://lnkd.in/dxuYKmQ View in LinkedIn