[Air-L] Book Announcement (Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World) and Gratitude to AOIR

[Naomi Susan Baron]

In the category of shameless promotion ? but also gratitude to AOIR: 

My book on the linguistic and social implications of online and mobile 
language (Always On) has just come out with Oxford University Press. It?s 
written both as a textbook and for the general reader. Here?s the Table of 
Contents:

Preface
1.   Email to Your Brain: Language in an Online and Mobile World
2.   Language Online: The Basics
3.   Controlling the Volume: Everyone a Language Czar
4.   Are Instant Messages Speech? The World of IM
5.   My Best Day: Managing ?Buddies? and ?Friends? 
6.   Having Your Say: Blogs and Beyond
7.   Going Mobile: Cell Phones in Context
8.   ?Whatever?: Is the Internet Destroying Language?
9.   Gresham?s Ghost: Challenges to Written Culture
10. The People We Become: The Cost of Being Always On

(More info? Go to 
http://www.amazon.com/Always-Language-Online-Mobile-World/dp/0195313054/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206459639&sr=1-1
)

In writing the book, I am deeply indebted to friends and colleagues in 
AOIR. Here?s what I said in the Preface:

My gratitude?to the Association of Internet Researchers (AOIR). Though 
itself a relative newbie (its first conference was in Fall 2000), AOIR has 
become an invaluable forum for exchanging ideas about the internet and all 
that it entails. AOIR?s conferences are true oases for scholars looking 
for serious discussion of topics too new for many university catalogues. 
Equally vital is the listserv run by AOIR, which creates a year-round 
network of scholarly exchange, without which this book would have been the 
poorer.

And it?s all true!