From Statistical Panic to Moral Panic: The Metadiscursive Construction and Popular Exaggeration of New Media Language in the Print Media

By Crispin Thurlow. J. Comput. Mediat. Commun., 2006

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Literature and Literary Theory, Human-Computer Interaction

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Ethnographic Approaches to Digital Media (2010, background): “Many challenge the mainstream media’s moral panic over the seeming demise of literacy; others make the panic itself the object of analysis (Tagliamonte & Denis 2008, Thurlow 2006).”
Technology in Language Use, Language Teaching, and Language Learning. (2016, background): “Other observers worry that technology is having a negative effect on language itself, viewing nonstandard forms in digital environments as a betrayal, distortion, and weakening of language (Thurlow, 2006).”
Perceptions of the risks and benefits of Internet access and use by people with intellectual disabilities (2017, background): “The media’s tendency to overemphasise the dangers of cyberspace is likely to inform attitudes (Thurlow, 2006).”
Text-message abbreviations and language skills in high school and university students (2012, background): “Media attention has focused on concerns that forms of casual, immediate communication such as text messaging and IM may threaten traditional standards of grammar, spelling and written expression (Crystal, 2008; Tagliamonte & Denis, 2008; Thurlow, 2006).”
Diffusion of Lexical Change in Social Media (2012, background): “icons, abbreviations, phonetic spellings, and other neologisms [1{3]. Such changes have often been considered as a single, uniform dialect | both by researchers [4,5] and throughout the popular press [5,6]. But despite the fact that social media facilitates instant communication between distant corn”
Old Communication, New Literacies: Social Network Sites as Social Learning Resources (2009, background): “Popular media accounts, however, tend to portray young people’s media practices as deficient or deleterious to academic learning, often linking them to an ‘‘overriding sense of moral panic about declining standards of literacy’’ (Thurlow, 2006, para.”
R u txting? Is the Use of Text Speak Hurting Your Literacy? (2009, background): “However, despite the media headlines that suggest that use of text speak in written assignments is becoming commonplace, there is no sound empirical evidence that textisms are, in fact, surfacing in students’ formal written communication (Thurlow, 2006).”
Txt msg n school literacy: does texting and knowledge of text abbreviations adversely affect children's literacy attainment? (2008, background): “Thurlow (2006) analysed over 100 media reports, finding that the predominant themes were negative in tone about the effect of texting on standard English.”
A corpus linguistics study of SMS text messaging (2009, background): “The predominance of intimate and interpersonal functions is shown, for example, by the fact that only 31% of Thurlow and Brown‘s (2003) messages were considered to be of ̳low”