Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

When I get stressed, I read pop-linguistics. This was fun: exploring the “verbal” quirks that happen in internet spaces, primarily social media. I particularly liked McCulloch grouping generations of early adaptors, etc. and how different generations, exposed to the internet in different ways, communicate differently. As an Old Internet Person, I've definitely kept a lot of capitalization and format my communication more for e-mails than texts, which I struggle to explain to people only a few years younger than me. I found this very light – McCulloch is an academic, but definitely not looking to have a completionist approach here – but memorable: I found myself referring to McCulloch's findings for months after.