Always on: Language in an Online and Mobile World

by Naomi S. Baron

Book Overview

In Always On, Naomi S. Baron reveals that online and mobile technologies--including instant messaging, cell phones, multitasking, Facebook, blogs, and wikis--are profoundly influencing how we read and write, speak and listen, but not in the ways we might suppose.

Baron draws on a decade of research to provide an eye-opening look at language in an online and mobile world. She reveals for instance that email, IM, and text messaging have had...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195313054
• ISBN13: 9780195313055
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.4"