Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: Variation, representation, and change in English in CMC -- I. Code and Variety -- Modular repertoires in English-using social networks: A study of language choice in the networks of adult Facebook users -- Tweets as graffiti: What the reconstruction of Vulgar Latin can tell us about Black Twitter -- "Ets jast ma booooooooooooo": Social meanings of Scottish accents on YouTube -- II. Contact, Spread, and Innovation -- Global varieties of English gone digital: Orthographic and semantic variation in digital Nigerian Pidgin -- Virtual meatspace: Word formation and deformation in cyberpunk discussions -- Language change because Twitter? Factors motivating innovative uses of because across the English-speaking Twittersphere -- Grammatical feature frequencies of English on Twitter in Finland -- III. Style and Identity -- Stylistic uniformity and variation online and on-screen: A case study of The Real Housewives -- Exploring stylistic co-variation on Twitter: The case of DH -- Who I am and who I want to be: Variation and representation in a messaging platform -- IV. Mode and Medium -- Electronically-mediated Englishes: Synchronicity revisited -- Social factors and lexical frequency influencing English adjective gradation in speech and CMC -- Implications of attitudes about non-standard English on interactional structure in the computer-mediated workplace: A story of two modes -- "At least I'm not Chinese, gay, or female": Marginalized voices in World of Warcraft -- Index