Greg Myers is Professor of Rhetoric and Communication at Lancaster University, UK.

... makes a valuable contribution to the burgeoning literature that has been produced over the last few years on social web technologies... particularly useful for both students and teachers of language studies, who are interested in the study of the newly emerging communicative forms that are occurring in the interactions that blogs and wikis are enabling... The format of the book is reader-friendly and its methodological approach clearly explained...

• Preface; 1. Introduction: A Linguist in the Blogosphere; 2. Genre: What is a Blog? What is a Wiki?; 3. Text: What's in a Link?; 4. Spaces: Where is the Blogger?; 5. Time: Writing for the Moment; 6. Audience: Who Reads this Stuff?; 7. Opinions: Where Do I Stand?; 8. Evidence: How Do We Know?; 9. Facts: How Wikipedia Grows; 10. Collaboration: Revision and Interaction in Wikipedia; 11. Studying Blogs and Wikis: Where Do I Start?; Glossary; References; Links; Index.

Greg Myers is Professor of Rhetoric and Communication at Lancaster University, UK.

... makes a valuable contribution to the burgeoning literature that has been produced over the last few years on social web technologies... particularly useful for both students and teachers of language studies, who are interested in the study of the newly emerging communicative forms that are occurring in the interactions that blogs and wikis are enabling... The format of the book is reader-friendly and its methodological approach clearly explained...

• Preface; 1. Introduction: A Linguist in the Blogosphere; 2. Genre: What is a Blog? What is a Wiki?; 3. Text: What's in a Link?; 4. Spaces: Where is the Blogger?; 5. Time: Writing for the Moment; 6. Audience: Who Reads this Stuff?; 7. Opinions: Where Do I Stand?; 8. Evidence: How Do We Know?; 9. Facts: How Wikipedia Grows; 10. Collaboration: Revision and Interaction in Wikipedia; 11. Studying Blogs and Wikis: Where Do I Start?; Glossary; References; Links; Index.