Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
As both analyst and participant, Aleksic embodies the very linguistic shifts he describes, and his TikTok videos have a punch that Algospeak sometimes strains to match. But the fact that he’s chosen to explain this moment in the long, careful, linear form of a book is part of what makes Algospeak so valuable. Aleksic is a code-switcher for the algorithmic age, fluent in both the old language and the new.
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Sharp ... An energetic and eye-opening study.
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An insightful and entertaining examination of social media’s impact on how we speak.
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