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• You Graded My Grammar Essay. I Think I Got a B-Minus -- The New York Times (24 August 2022)
  
  
• How Māori women have reshaped New Zealand’s media through their native language -- The Guardian (17 September 2021)
  
  
• Is Zoom on the road to genericide? -- QUARTZ (08 September 2020)
  
  
• Fake news: French language body urges alternative phrase -- BBCnews (05 October 2019)
  
  
• Pas de 'fake news' – too many English words rile French defenders -- The Guardian (04 October 2018)
  
  
• Could language be the key to detecting fake news? -- The Guardian (2 September 2019)
  
  
• Don’t Delete Your Facebook Account -- TheNewYorkTimes (21 March 2018)
  
  
• Considering the Impact of the Emoji: From the World of Language to the World of Public Health -- The Scout Report, October 27, 2017, Volume 23, Number 43
  
  
• ‘Make America big again’? The headache of translating Trump into foreign languages -- The Washington Post (23 January 2017)
  
  
• A brief history of food emoji: Why you won't find hummus on your phone -- NPRNews (28 December 2016)
  
  
• Why Do We Love to Curse So Much? -- The New York Times (26 September 2016)
  
  
• Do you know the meaning of the dictionary's newest words? -- BBCculture (12 September 2016)
  
  
• Dictionary fans might squee: OED adds new words, because YOLO -- MPRNews (12 September 2016)
  
  
• Introducing Diversity in Online Language Analysis -- EurekAlert (07 September 2016)
  
  
• This 1 piece of crucial English speaking advice is sending the internet wild -- Sam Haysom (05 September 2016)
  
  
• New Greenlandic Cuisine Is Changing Cultural Identity -- ScienceNordic (22 August 2016)
  
  
• To Get More Out of Social Media, Think Like an Anthropologist -- Harvard Busin (ess Review (17 August 2016)
  
  
• What hunter-gatherers can tell us about fundamental human social networks -- ScienceDaily (21 July 2016)
  
  
• (((Echoes))): beating the far-right, two triple-brackets at a time -- The Guardian (12 June 2016)
  
  
• Exploring Gender Perception Via Speech -- ScienceDaily (25 May 2016)
  
  
• Language of Women Versus Men: 'Wonderful' and 'Thankful' Versus 'Battle' and 'Enemy' -- ScienceDaily (25 May 2016)
  
  
• Women are Warmer but No Less Assertive than Men: Gender and Language on Facebook -- PLoS ONE (25 MaY 2016)
  
  
• Looking Back on the History of Social Media as Twitter Adjusts its 140 Character Limit -- The Scout Report, May 20, 2016, Volume 22, Number 20
  
  
• How not to text like a passive-aggressive Minnesotan -- StarTribune (17 February 2016)
  
  
• Reimagining the Internet as a Mosaic of Regional Cultures -- Conversation (17 February 2016)
  
  
• French Spelling Changes, 26 Years in the Making, Cause a Fracas -- The New York Times (05 February 2016)
  
  
• Social Media: Destroyer or Creator? -- Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times (03 February 2016)
  
  
• You should watch the way you punctuate your text messages -- period -- MPRNews (20 December 2015)
  
  
• ASMR [Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response]: What's going on inside my brain? -- BBCNews (16 December 2015)
  
  
• Beyond 'he' and 'she': The rise of non-binary pronouns -- BBCNews (07 December 2015)
  
  
• Social Media for Teachers: Guides, Resources, and Ideas -- The Scout Report, August 14, 2015 -- Volume 21, Number 31
  
  
• Gossiping Is What Makes Us Human, Says Oxford Professor -- Telegraph (07 June 2015)
  
  
• What Baboons Can Teach Us About Social Media -- Science 2.0 (13 May 2015)
  
  
• The mathematics behind Internet virality ["go viral"] -- Davide Castelvecchi, Nature (05 March 2015)
  
  
• Word usage mirrors community structure in the online social network Twitter --

  John Bryden, Sebastian Funk, and Vincent AA Jansen, EPJ Data Science (25 February 2013)

• Hashtags seep into everyday speech -- Katie Humphrey, StarTribune (13 October 2012)
  
  
• Good Gossip: We May Spread Rumors to Protect Others -- LiveScience (07 February 2012)
  
  
• Gossip Can Have Social and Psychological Benefits -- EurekAlert (17 January 2012)
  
  
• Social Networks Create Their Own Regional Dialects -- New Scientist (10 January 2011)

• Piktochart: 5 Language Infographics