The Routledge Handbook of Language, Digital and AI Communication (Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics)

This new edition of The Routledge Handbook of Language, Digital and AI Communication reflects the profound transformations that digital communication has undergone over the past decade.Since the first edition, social media platforms have evolved rapidly, short-form video and influencer cultures have reshaped online interaction and artificial intelligence has begun to play an increasingly visible role in how communication is produced, circulated and interpreted.New chapters address developments such as visuality, the growing role of AI in communication, short-form video platforms, influencer cultures, cancel culture and the online-offline nexus and decolonising digital communication researchThe volume introduces key research approaches and methods used to analyse digital discourse, interaction and multimodal communication.It brings together an international group of established and emerging scholars to examine how language operates across contemporary digital environments.The chapters a