To online or not to online, that is certainly the question : ideologies about language and digital media

Abstract

The advent of so-called social technologies has fueled a heated debate about the way people use these technologies in their daily lives. Most specifically, what has become the locus of the discussion seems to be the adequacy and appropriateness of new technological artefacts, typically computers and mobile phones, in navigating and mediating our social world, and, by extension, the narrative that treats our online communicative practices as more significant than something that simply opposes our offline communicative practices.