The Routledge Handbook of Language and Social Media around the World

Handbook introduction

Caroline Tagg, Korina Giaxoglou and Kristin V. Lexander

SECTION 1

Africa: African perspectives on social media practices: literacy, politics, transnationalism, and artistic creativity

Edited by Kristin V. Lexander, Adjaratou O. Sall

Editorsâ introduction

1 Texting as a collaborative literacy practice influenced by socio-cultural and sociolinguistic values: a Kenyan example

Catherine Wawasi Kitetu

2 To keep from losing the way: connected migrants from sub-Saharan Africa

Sandra Bornand and Id© Hamani

3 Journalistic rap in social media: a transnational West African practice (Le rap journalistique dans les r©seaux sociaux: une pratique transnationale ouest-africaine)

Moussa Di¨ne and Mamadou Dram©

4 Political discourse and social media in Africa: online campaign, cultural politics and the #Obidient movement

Innocent Chiluwa and Tolulope D. Iredele

SECTION 2

Americas: Language and social media in the Americas: struggles over political participation and citizenship

Edited by Ignacio Jos© Antonio L³pez Escarcena, Rodrigo Borba

Editorsâ introduction

5 Navigating pre-authorial constraints on Facebook: the âseven Aâsâ

Lauren Zentz

6 Language and gender in YouTube comments: the case of inclusive language (lenguaje inclusivo)

Juan Eduardo Bonnin and M. Florencia Rizzo

7 Researching the thematisation of inclusive language in social media

Germ¡n Canale

8 Transperipheral social media literacies: affects, ambiguities, transgressions

Junot de Oliveira Maia

SECTION 3

East Asia: Creating spaces of creativity and criticality: Social media in East Asia

Edited by Yi Zhang, Sender Dovchin

Editorsâ introduction

9 Celebration of language play and humour - Translanguaging and carnivalesque literacy practices in Chinese digital space

Yi Zhang

10 Instagramming the almost real: Japanese younger women and the spatiality of desire on Instagram

Judit Kroo

11 Pro- and anti-social language of Korean social networking services (SNS)

Eldin Milak, Ana TankosiÄ and Qian Gong

12 Linguistic ridicule and language ideologies on social media in Hong Kong

Dennis Chau

13 The construction of national identity and the role of affect in Chinese social media

Mingyi Hou, Ron Darvin and Guangxiang Liu

14 Understanding online hate speech through âgrotesque realismâ: Mongolia and Kazakhstan

Sender Dovchin, Juldyz Samgulova, Bridget Goodman, Stephanie Dryden and Bolormaa Shinjee

SECTION 4

Europe: Designing audiences and platforms in European social media contexts

Edited by Korina Giaxoglou and Caroline Tagg

Editorsâ introduction

15 Reflecting backward, reflecting forward on social media research around Europe

Maria Grazia Sindoni

16 Refugees' digital multilingual practices: insights into linguistic creativity and identity

Mohammad Ateek

17 Extremism and social media

Catherine Bouko

18 The production and politics of social media interfaces

Lara Portmann

19 Quantified stories of illness and dying on social media

Carsten Stage

SECTION 5

Middle East: Postdigital Middle East societies: interfacing online and offline dimensions of social media

Edited by Rania Magdi Fawzy and Amir H.Y. Salama

Editorsâ introduction

20 The postdigital constitution of touristscapes: the Dubai travel app

Rania Magdi Fawzy and Amir H.Y. Salama

21 Digitized confessional discourse: the case of Cairo Confessions

Amany Y.A.A. Youseff

22 Diasporic identities at the online/offline juncture: insights from a postdigital ethnography of the Nubian diaspora

Rania Magdi Fawzy, Amany El Shazly, Heba Morsi and Lubna Sherif

23 The postdigital turn and multimodal hermeneutics of Saudization in online advertising discourse

Amir H.Y. Salama

SECTION 6

Oceania: The Oceanic Digital Revolution: Social Media and Linguistic Diversity in Contested (Post)Colonial Environments

Edited by Stephanie Ketterer and Geoffrey Hobbis

Editorsâ introduction

24 Melanesia in the digital age: langauge practices in social media and their interaction with language ideology and perception

Leslie Vandeputte

25 Language contact phenomena on social media: perspectives from te Reo MÄori and New Zealand English

Andreea Calude and David Trye

26 Weaving translocal solidarity: examining the role of social media in sovereignty and demilitarization activism in Gu¥han

Manuel Cruz

27 Rethinking critical digital literacies education across Oceania: Disrupting the legacies of colonialism

Fiona Willans

SECTION 7

South Asia: Social media as a space of resistance and digital linguistic citizenship in South Asia

Edited by Shaila Sultana and Obaid

Editorsâ introduction

28 Language shaming on social media in Nepal

Bal Krishna Sharma and Pramod K. Sah

29 âSickularâ and âbhaktâ as polarized categories: the making of a Hindutva digital sphere on Indian Twitter (X)

Rahul Sambaraju

30 Language of resistance and social justice: a case study of Pakistani digital ethnic speech communities

Muhammad Shaban Rafi and Iram Amjad

31 Reciprocity between social media discourses and social movements in Bangladesh

Al Muhmud Rumman and Shaila Sultana

32 âListen to the lamaâ: analysing Bhutanâs digital media and online religious practices

Dorji Wangchuk and Todd L. Sandel

Postscript

Ana Deumert

Index