Discourse of Twitter and Social Media

Discourse of Twitter and Social Media: How We Use Language to Create Affiliation on the Web (Continuum Discourse) by Michele Zappavigna

This book investigates linguistic patterns in electronic discourse, looking at online evaluative language, internet slang, memes and ambient affiliation using a large Twitter corpus (over 100 million tweets) alongside specialized case studies.

Privacy and Identity Management for Life

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post conference proceedings of the 5th IFIP WG 9.2, 9.6/11.7, 11.4, 11.6/PrimeLife International Summer School, held in Nice, France, in September 2009. The 25 revised papers were carefully selected from numerous submissions during two rounds of reviewing. They are organized in topical sections on lifelong privacy, privacy for social network sites and collaborative systems, privacy for e-government applications, privacy and identity management for e-health and ambient assisted living applications, anonymisation and privacy-enhancing technologies, identity management and multilateral security, and usability, awareness and transparency tools.