Special Issue: Computer-mediated communication (CMC) and social media corpora

Abstract

This issue brings together language-centered studies on computer-mediated communication (CMC) and social media corpora. Except for Hilte et al., the papers in this thematic issue represent a selection of the papers presented at the 6th Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication and Social Media Corpora, 17th-18th September 2018, University of Antwerp (Belgium). The annual conference series is dedicated to the collection, annotation, processing and exploitation of corpora of computer-mediated communication (CMC) and social media for research in the humanities.