A lecture by Laurence Scott “Words Rewired“

4 June 2016, Future of the Word Forum The digital revolution has not only influenced language by introducing new words such as blog, e-mail, and webinar; it has also changed the ways in which old words are used. ‘Mute’, ‘Hack’ and ‘Refresh’, for example, have gained new meanings in the digital age, and these new meanings reflect the culture and politics of our networked era. More eerily, there is a Gothic undertone to the social media vernacular, with phrases such as ‘Facebook-stalking’, ‘troll’, ‘ghost-t