Month: September 2022

NEW COUNTRY. "Hi5 is another major social network, established in 2003 and currently boasting more than 60 million active members according to their own claims." https://lnkd.in/gJ_sWNx View in LinkedIn

"FLICKR has become a social network in its own right in recent years. They claim to host more than 3.6 billion images as of June 2009." https://lnkd.in/gJ_sWNx View in LinkedIn

YOUTUBE GENERATION. "Young people, who are the majority of our audience, are angry, disenfranchised and they don’t like or trust mainstream media outlets. They’re leaving TV in droves, but music and news are the two things that Generation Y in every country are excited about and interested in.” https://lnkd.in/dsnHpD3 View in LinkedIn

RAPID CULTURAL CHANGE. "The influence of the Internet has been most significant in the way it has transformed the lives of young people. Their digital bedroom symbolizes a childhood that is significantly mediated through the social media, mobile phones and the Internet." https://lnkd.in/d8-nHvR View in LinkedIn

IMPACT ON IDENTITY. "Friendship interaction and peer-to-peer relations are increasingly conducted online or through text messaging. Such interactions have had major cultural consequences. Texting and online communications have influenced the evolution of language. They have thrown up new rituals and symbols and have had an important impact on people’s identity—the young in particular." https://lnkd.in/d8-nHvR 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

"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

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

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

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