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| Title: | Audience, Authorship, and Artifact: The emergent semiotics of Web 2.0 |
| Author: | Mark Warschauer |
| Email: | click here to access email |
| Homepage: | http://www.gse.uci.edu/markw |
| Institution: | University of California |
| Author: | Douglas Grimes |
| Linguistic Field: | General Linguistics |
| Abstract: | The second-generation Web has amplified and extended new ways of online communication. Millions of people now interact through blogs, collaborate through wikis, play multiplayer games, publish podcasts and video, build relationships through social network sites, and evaluate all the above forms of communication through feedback and ranking mechanisms. This article analyzes the emergent semiotics of what has been called Web 2.0 by focusing on three critical elements of language use and communication: audience, authorship, and artifact. Drawing on recent theoretical and empirical work, this article considers the significance of transformations in these three areas for both research and teaching. |
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This article appears in Annual Review of Applied Linguistics Vol. 27, Issue 1, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST . |
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