Good morning!

ish Lang ua ge
En gl
and
New M ed ia
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 Presenters

Kaye Aira P. De Leon Kim Biner G. Deomampo Ma. Antonette O. Endozo

 Objectives
1. Evaluate language in new media

2. Adopt an awareness of proper use of

language in media platforms.
New Medi a
 What is New Media?
New media refers to highly interactive
digital technology. These are very easily
processed, stored, transformed, retrieved,
hyper-linked, searched for, and accessed.
Classification of New Media
Blogs
Social media
Online newspaper
Virtual reality
Computer games
 Classifications
of New Media

Blogs
Social media
Online newspaper
Virtual reality
Computer games
 Classifications
of New Media

Blogs
Social media
Online newspaper
Virtual reality
Computer games
 Classifications
of New Media

Blogs
Social media
Online newspaper
Virtual reality
Computer games
 Classifications
of New Media

Blogs
Social media
Online newspaper
Virtual reality
Computer games
 Classifications
of New Media

Blogs
Social media
Online newspaper
Virtual reality
Computer games
 Language in new media is sometimes referred to as
Computer-mediated communication
(CMC), though it may also be called any of the following:
Netspeak
Computer-mediated discourse
Digital discourse
Electronic discourse
e-communication
Digitally mediated communication
Keyboard-to-screen communication
 The Internet is the largest area of language
development we have seen in our lifetimes.
Crystal (2011) said that only two things are
certain: it is not going to go away, and it is going to
get larger. Hence, we must be prepared for its
inevitable expansion.
 Types of
Digital Discour se
 DIGITAL DISCOURSE
How one communicates or represents
themselves online.
Illuminates social and cultural processes,
which is under the domain of sociocultural
linguistics.
 ra ct e r iz a t i on
Cha 01 Vernacular
of d ig i ta l
02 Interpersonal
d is co u r s e/
comp u t er - 03 Spontaneous

med ia t e d 04 Dialogical
om m u n i c a t io n
c
 Vernacular
-uses language that is common to people regardless of
age, social class, gender, or race
Examples:
Acronyms (LOL, YOLO, FOMO, BAE)
Initialisms (tyt, jgh, jwu, smh)
Emoticons/Emoji
Expressive Punctuations (No. vs. No? vs. No!!!)
 Misspelling/Respelling
- a resource whose use is subject to a variety of factors,
including users’ ‘technoliteracy’, their considerations of
audience and purpose, and physical constraints of
message production (for economy and text entry
reduction).
Examples: cu, 2nyt, tom/2mrw, abt, y?
 Interpersonal
- relationship-focused rather than subject-oriented.
-characterized by:
1. Turn-taking
2. Topic Development
3. Back-channels
4. Repairs
 Spontaneous
-usually unplanned, unstructured, and sometimes
impulsive.
-gave rise to Net Neologisms through Lexical Creativity,
such as the use of “b4n” and “f2f”, or such terms as
trolls, meme, hashtag, and meh. These can be described
as mediatized stylization and popular representation.
 Dialogical
- carries expectation of continuous exchange.
Example:
Leave a comment button
Reply option
Comment option
 01 Brief

ac te r is ti cs 02 Multimodal
Char
of En g li sh
L an gu a g e i n 03 Ideological

N ew M e d ia
 Brevity
Communication via new media is dominated
by a focus on brevity. This has led to a
revolution in the structure of communication.

1. Short words instead of long

2. An increase in acronyms and abbreviations
3. The sharing of images.
4. All trends derived from the need to convey information
as quickly and efficiently as possible
 Examples
3.The sharing of images.
1. Short words instead of long
Comfy
Ad
Undies
Meds

2.An increase in acronyms and

abbreviations
brb
lol
Lmao
etc.
4. All trends derived from the need to convey
information as quickly and efficiently as possible
 People put premium on length and on the time it
would take for them to read an article in the net
because readers want brief materials.

Examples
 Multimodality
This refers to the layering of different digital
media.

Texts alone might not catch that much attention, so a

combination of purposively-designed text, photo,
and/or video are a staple in new media to make it
interactive.
Examples
 Ideologically-motivated.
New media is inherently ideological, especially in
terms of their political-economies of access and
control.

They are used to control people, and to resist control through the
symbolic power of the news and broadcast media.
Language use is not simply a way of communicating, but a powerful
resource for representing (or manipulating) its users,
 New Media- means of mass communication using digital technologies such as
the internet
-classified as:
1. Blogs
2. Social Media
3. Online Newspaper
4. Virtual Reality
5. Computer Games
 Computer-mediated communication- language in new media
-also called as:
1. Netspeak
2. Computer-mediated discourse
3. Digital discourse
4. Electronic discourse
5. e-communication
6. Digitally mediated communication
7. Keyboard-to-screen communication
 Characterization of computer-mediated communication:
1. Vernacular
2. Interpersonal
3. Spontaneous
4. Dialogical
 English Language in New Media:
1. Brief
2. Multimodal
3. Ideological
Are we using new
media, or are new
media using us?
Thank you!