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
Editors' 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 Idé Hamani
3 Journalistic rap in social media: a transnational West African practice (Le rap journalistique dans les réseaux sociaux: une pratique transnationale ouest-africaine)
Moussa Diène and Mamadou Dramé
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 José Antonio López Escarcena, Rodrigo Borba
Editors' introduction
5 Navigating pre-authorial constraints on Facebook: the "seven A's"
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
Germán 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
Editors' 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 Tankosi¿ 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 "grotesque realism": 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
Editors' 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
Editors' 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
Editors' 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 M¿ori 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 Guåhan
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
Editors' introduction
28 Language shaming on social media in Nepal
Bal Krishna Sharma and Pramod K. Sah
29 "Sickular" and "bhakt" 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 "Listen to the lama": analysing Bhutan's digital media and online religious practices
Dorji Wangchuk and Todd L. Sandel
Postscript
Ana Deumert
Index
