Title

English and Technology

Editors

Jocelyne Vincent (with the contribution of Gianfranco Porcelli)

Table of contents

Editorial

English and Technology: an introductory essay
Jocelyne Vincent

English in Technology

Between Technology and Post-Purchase Publicity: The Translation of Instruction Manuals
Maria Silvia Attianese

Blogspeak: Blogal English in the Global Era
Mikaela Cordisco

Computer Mediated Communication and Identity
Antongiuseppe Di Dio

Online Encyclopedi@s: The Case of Wikipedia and WikiSpeak
Antonella Elia

The Language of Technology: the Lighter Side
Gianfranco Porcelli

Forwarding e-mails in an academic context: a small-scale study on language and politeness in intercultural English
Maria Teresa Sanniti di Baja

’Twixt twitalk and tweespeak (not to mention trouble) on Twitter: a flutter with affectivity
Jocelyne Vincent

Technology for English

Trends in ELT Methodology: Exploring a Computer Learner Corpus
Rita Calabrese

TELL @ SAC: Enhancing English Learning through ICT in a Self-access Centre
Maria De Santo

Gender Equality in the Information Society: Pedagogical Implications for Italy-based ELT
Emilia Di Martino

ELT and the Internet: A New Approach to ESP
Bruna Di Sabato

Making the Move from Conventional to Online Educational Training
Margaret Rasulo

Technology Textuality and Culture

Humourless Indians? The Perception of ‘Diasporic’ Humour in Ethnic Media Productions
Giuseppe Balirano

Technology and the Text
Sara Griffiths

Building Sites: Suniti Namjoshi’s Hypertextual Babel
Serena Guarracino

Internet, GlobaliSation and the Politics of Language
Geert Lovink

Remix
Lev Manovich

Chain Reactions: Digital Recombination and Analogue Chaos
Tiziana Terranova

Squiblogs

Global Conversations
Geert Lovink

Shall I Compare Thee To A Stand-Alone Compression Module?
Jeff Matthews

Hey you sound just like Marlon Brando, Robert Redford and Paul Newman!...
Jeff Matthews

Lowercasing the Internet
Geoff Nunberg

A Wiki’s as Good as a Nod
Geoff Nunberg

All Thumbs
Geoff Nunberg

Review Essays

Weizenbaum and the Society of the Query
Geert Lovink

Paradigms Lost: a Review Essay of Christian Mair, ed., The Politics of English as a World Language: New Horizons in Postcolonial Cultural Studies
Chantal Zabus

Book reviews

David Crystal, The Language Revolution
Linda Barone

David Graddol, English Next: Why Global English May Mean the End of ‘English as a Foreign Language
Roy and Luisa Boardman

David Graddol, English Next: Why Global English May Mean the End of ‘English as a Foreign Language
Mikaela Cordisco

EFL on the Web: an overview
Maria De Santo

Sujata Bhatt, Il colore della solitudine, ed., and trans. Paola Splendore
Serena Guarracino

Poetastery

Cookie Monsters
Geoff Nunberg

Life Before the Computer
Unknown web authors

Spam Salad a selection of spoems
Jocelyne Vincent