This document discusses how information and communication technologies (ICT) have impacted language and communication. It provides numerous examples of new terminology that has emerged from technologies, including acronyms, abbreviations used in texting, and verbs that describe online activities. It also discusses how ICT has led to the development of multimodal literacies and new forms of communication like social networking and user-generated content tagging. Overall, the document illustrates how digital technologies have greatly expanded vocabulary and transformed ways of communicating and sharing information.

1. The Language of ICT
or What has ICT done to Language?
Michael Coghlan
June 21st, 2012

2. John 1:1–18

3. John 1:1–18

4. ACRONYMS/ABRREVIATIONS
• ICT? CMC? LMS? CMS?
• USB? RSS feeds? ISP? RAM? HD?
• OS (= Open Source, OR Operating System)
• 3G, 4G (what the?)
• KB, MB, GB
• BYOD, GPS, etc etc....

5. E-learning OR eLearning?
From eLearning Technology Blog (2007)

6. Internet OR internet?
• In 2002, a New York Times column theorized that Internet has
been changing from a proper noun to a generic term. Words
for new technologies, such as Phonograph in the 19th
century, are sometimes capitalized at first, later becoming
uncapitalized.
• More recently, a significant number of publications have
switched to not capitalizing the noun internet. Among them
are The Economist, the Financial Times, The Times, the
Guardian, the Observer and the Sydney Morning Herald. As of
2011, most publications using "internet" appear to be located
outside of North America, but the gap is closing.
(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_capitalization_conventions)

7. CHANGING VOCABULARY
• e-everything (email, ecommerce, e-health, e-democracy, ereaders, e-living etc)
• Surf, Net, web, filter, save, install, programs, C-drive or D-drive and E and maybe F)
• crop, bookmark, scan, cut, paste, copy, back-up, files, folders
• Desktop, laptop, notebook; tablets
• Keyboards: return, shift, control, tab, (go) home, esc (escape), enter
• Chat rooms, forums, virtual worlds
• Virus, worm, trolls, flame
• Windows, Apple
• MOBILE
• Gig, hardware > fleshware (the people)
• i-everything: iPod, iPhone, iPad, iView, Youi
• Smart mobs, flashmobs, crowd sourcing
• Word, Powerpoint, Excel
• curation, port, resolution, screen time, wireless, tagging, etc
• Creative Commons

8. CHANGING VOCABULARY
• e-everything (email, ecommerce, e-health, e-democracy, ereaders, etc)
• Surf, Net, web, filter, save, install, programs, C-drive or D-drive and E and maybe F)
• crop, bookmark, scan, cut, paste, copy, back-up, files, folders
• Desktop, laptop, notebook
• Keyboards: return, shift, control, tab, (go) home, esc (escape), enter
• Chat rooms, forums, virtual worlds
• Virus, worm, trolls, flame
• Windows, Apple
• MOBILE
• Gig, hardware > fleshware (the people)
• i-everything: iPod, iPhone, iPad, iView, Youi
• Smart mobs, flashmobs, crowd sourcing
• Word, Powerpoint, Excel
• curation, port, resolution, screen time, wireless, tagging,

9. CHANGING VOCABULARY
• e-everything (email, ecommerce, e-health, e-democracy, ereaders, e-living etc)
• Surf, Net, web, filter, save, install, programs, C-drive or D-drive and E and maybe F)
• crop, bookmark, scan, cut, paste, copy, back-up, files, folders
• Desktop, laptop, notebook
• Keyboards: return, shift, control, tab, (go) home, esc (escape), enter
• Chat rooms, forums, virtual worlds
• Virus, worm, trolls, flame
• Windows, Apple
• MOBILE
• Gig, hardware > fleshware (the people)
• i-everything: iPod, iPhone, iPad, iView, Youi
• Smart mobs, flashmobs, crowd sourcing
• Word, Powerpoint, Excel
• curation, port, resolution, screen time, wireless, tagging, etc
• Creative Commons >>>>>>

10. Creative Commons (CC)
from Jeffrey Beall at http://www.flickr.com/photos/denverjeffrey/301014978/

11. CYBER –
• space, smart, safety
• porn, sex, bullying, fraud, crime
THE DARK SIDE OF THE INTERNET

12. CHANGING VOCABULARY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAG39jKi0lI

13. YOUR DIGITAL FOOTPRINT

14. Fail Whale

15. NEW VOCABULARY - VERBS
• “IM me.” OR “Text me later.”
• “Facebook me when you get home.”
• “I tweeted about that last week.”
• “Have you Skyped your son lately?”
• You can now Photoshop an image.
• “Have you Googled it?”

16. NEW VOCABULARY
• Download software, upload files, boot up, netiquette, podcast
• BYTES – kilo, mega, giga, tera......
• 4 terabytes = a life!
• PROGRAMS: Twitter, Facebook, Google, Moodle, YouTube, Flickr
• Apps, Android, Kindle, avatar, blog, wiki, Twitter, tweet
• Geeks, nerds
• Social media, social networking, hashtags (eg #ALAevent)
• Wifi, Hifi, lofi, hi res, lo res, pixels
• BRICKJUICING? BACKDOORING?
• Synchronous, asynchronous >>>>

17. COMMUNICATION AXIS
More reflective; Most structured
combination form
Asynch of dialogue and monologue of
(eg podcasts) communication
Synch Spontaneous/Dialogue Spontaneous
/Minimalist
Oral Written

18. COMMUNICATION AXIS
More Reflective; Most structured
combination form
Asynch of dialogue and monologue of
(eg podcasts) communication
NEW: Chat, SMS
Synch Spontaneous/Dialogue
Spontaneous/Minimalist
Oral Written

19. TXTING: THE GR8 DB8T

20. SMS POETRY
his is r bunsn brnr bl%,
his hair lyk fe filings
W/ac/dc going thru.
I sit by him in kemistry,
it splits my @oms
Wen he :-)s @ me
(most creative use of SMS prize in
Guardian sponsored poetry
competition; quoted in Crystal)

21. idea borrowed from Jonathan Finkelstein

22. SMS INFILTRATION
WTF?!

23. ABBREVIATIONS ARE NOTHING NEW
• RSVP, PTO, PO, BYO, AMDG, BC, AD, NB, DOA,
MIA, viz
• STD, ISD
• Academic: op cit, ibid, MA, B.Ed, etc

24. MULTILITERACIES
• What does it mean to be literate these days?
• Digital, information, critical, media (can you
create video?) visual – infographics
From http://www.schrockguide.net/literacy-in-the-digital-age.html

25. MULTILITERACY
(sometimes called Transliteracy)
• The ability to read, write and interact across a
range of platforms, tools and media ...
through handwriting, print, TV, radio and
film, to digital social networks.

26. MULTILITERACY
Course:
• http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com/w/pa
ge/10972799/FrontPage
Example:
• Howard Rheingold -
http://www.screenr.com/rNl

27. FOLKSONOMY
• The world of tagging
• Tag clouds
• What gets ‘tagged’?
– Blogs
– Photos
– Videos
– Links (Favourites, Bookmarks)
– Events (#hashtags)
• Knowledge and information is being
reorganised/recategorised according to your own
personal ‘Dewey system’

28. TAG CLOUD FOR THIS PRESENTATION
Created with Wordle

29. FLICKR TAG CLOUD
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikecogh/tags/

30. MULTIPLE CHANNELS
• RESOURCE: Alone Together (Sherry Turkle)
Image courtesy of Alec Couros

32. What tool do you use to
break up? Announce a
death?

33. CULT OR NORM?
Poke
Tweet
LOL } CULT NORM
GARTNER HYPE CYCLE

34. CULT OR NORM?
Poke
Tweet
LOL } CULT NORM
GARTNER HYPE CYCLE
??OBLIVION??

35. Images from
Gallery of Modern Art
Brisbane
Michael Coghlan
michaelc@chariot.net.au