Because internet / McCulloch, Gretchen

"Explores the deep forces that shape human language and influence the way we communicate with one another. She explains how your first social internet experience influences whether you prefer 'LOL' or 'lol,' why sparkly tildes succeeded where centuries of proposals for irony punctuation had failed, what emoji have in common with physical gestures, and how the artfully disarrayed language of animal memes like lolcats and doggo made them more likely to spread"--Amazon.

Explores the forces that shape human language and various methods of communication to understand how the internet is constantly transforming the English language with its jargon, character limits, emojis, and memes.