id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-031941-bxrjftnl Androutsopoulos, Jannis Investigating digital language/media practices, awareness, and pedagogy: Introduction 2020-09-16 .txt text/plain 3013 128 37 Based on original research, the six articles in this Special Issue examine the relationship between digital language practices and critical awareness of language and digital media, and explore how insights in everyday practices and understandings of digital communication may inform language pedagogy in a digital age. New patterns of interpersonal and professional communication are in particular adopted by adolescents and young adults, who lead all age cohorts in the frequency of online communication, as repeatedly attested by media research on an international scale, and whose non-institutional practices of digital writing, composing, remixing and interacting are found to blur boundaries between institutional and vernacular literacies (e.g., Herring & Androutsopoulos, 2015 ; Iorio, 2016 ; Jones, Chik & Hafner, 2015 ) . Thus, the articles in this Special Issue suggest we need to think beyond an apparent divide between language and digital media in terms of communicative practice and metapragmatic awareness. ./cache/cord-031941-bxrjftnl.txt ./txt/cord-031941-bxrjftnl.txt