Outline for

Language, Culture, and the Internet

• Introduction
• The General Nature of the Net
  • Internet technologies and their offline analogues
    • e-mail
    • discussion boards
    • real-time chat
    • the web
      • Hypertext
• Vocabulary Affected by the Internet
  • Hacker - an example
  • Cyber - another example
• Conversation
  • acronyms
  • retronyms
  • e(-)mail
  • Emoticons
  • Dependence on text decreasing
• International Issues
  • English as the dominant language?
  • Unicode
  • Hebrew webpages
• Conclusion