Calude, Andreea Simona2025-07-072025-07-072025Calude, A. S. (2025). Linguistics of Social Media: An Introduction to the Special Issue. Languages, 10(6), 140-140. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages100601402226-471Xhttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/17489It is hard to remember a world without social media (SM). The Internet Relay Chat (IRC) and bulletin boards of the 1980s and the popular early platforms of the 1990s, MySpace, AOL Messenger, and Facebook, gave rise to nothing short of an SM empire in just 50 years. Although we have been considering how language is used on the Internet for some time now, studying the language used on SM is comparatively a newer field of inquiry.enAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Journal Article10.3390/languages100601402226-471X4701 Communication and Media Studies4704 Linguistics47 Language, Communication and Culture4703 Language studies4704 Linguistics