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NOW AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER!Algospeak: How Social Media is Transforming the Future of Language"A masterclass in linguistic evolution... there is no one who understands the internet and language better than Adam. Algospeak is a must read for anyone seeking to understand how we communicate today."
- Taylor Lorenz, bestselling author of Extremely Online "I found Algospeak enthrallingly enlightening, written in an enticingly friendly way by one of the medium's most linguistically aware and experienced practitioners... All who use social media, or are puzzled by it, or are infuriated by it, will benefit from a reading. It's a brilliant exposé of the aims and strategies underlying the algorithms that control these media, and of the motivations of the companies who create them, as well as providing a beautifully illustrated account of how users change language in order to respond to them. Algospeak takes our understanding of online communication to a new level.”—David Crystal, author of How Language Works and the "father of internet linguistics" |
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ABOUT
Adam Aleksic is a linguist and content creator currently living in Manhattan. He is best known for creating educational linguistics videos to a following of over two million across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.
Adam holds a linguistics degree from Harvard University, where he served as president of the Harvard Undergraduate Linguistics Society. He's discussed online language on NPR, repeatedly contributed to the Washington Post, and his work has been mentioned in the New York Times, The Economist, and The Guardian. He's lectured on language and social media at Stanford, Yale, Georgetown, and other top universities, including a TEDx talk at the University of Pennsylvania. |
