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title = "Digital Tongues: {I}nternet Language, Collective Identity, and Implications for Human-Computer Interaction",
author = "Lin, Zi-Xiang",
editor = "Blodgett, Su Lin and
Curry, Amanda Cercas and
Dev, Sunipa and
Li, Siyan and
Madaio, Michael and
Wang, Jack and
Wu, Sherry Tongshuang and
Xiao, Ziang and
Yang, Diyi",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Bridging Human-Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing (HCI+NLP)",
month = nov,
year = "2025",
address = "Suzhou, China",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.hcinlp-1.1/",
pages = "1--6",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-353-1",
abstract = "Nowadays, internet languages, including emojis, memes, hashtags, and slang, have become vital in constructing online communities' collective identities. However, all these forms of internet language can sometimes disempower people from other generations or cultures. This position paper presents an argument explaining how online forms of communication create social belonging for specific groups at the expense of users, and especially elderly people, due to interpretation hurdles. The present study aims to evaluate the relationship between the internet language and online collective identity, highlighting how patterns in internet language can inform human- computer interaction (HCI) by revealing how users' express identity, inclusion, and exclusion online."
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%T Digital Tongues: Internet Language, Collective Identity, and Implications for Human-Computer Interaction
%A Lin, Zi-Xiang
%Y Blodgett, Su Lin
%Y Curry, Amanda Cercas
%Y Dev, Sunipa
%Y Li, Siyan
%Y Madaio, Michael
%Y Wang, Jack
%Y Wu, Sherry Tongshuang
%Y Xiao, Ziang
%Y Yang, Diyi
%S Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Bridging Human-Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing (HCI+NLP)
%D 2025
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Suzhou, China
%@ 979-8-89176-353-1
%F lin-2025-digital
%X Nowadays, internet languages, including emojis, memes, hashtags, and slang, have become vital in constructing online communities’ collective identities. However, all these forms of internet language can sometimes disempower people from other generations or cultures. This position paper presents an argument explaining how online forms of communication create social belonging for specific groups at the expense of users, and especially elderly people, due to interpretation hurdles. The present study aims to evaluate the relationship between the internet language and online collective identity, highlighting how patterns in internet language can inform human- computer interaction (HCI) by revealing how users’ express identity, inclusion, and exclusion online.
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%P 1-6
Markdown (Informal)
[Digital Tongues: Internet Language, Collective Identity, and Implications for Human-Computer Interaction](https://aclanthology.org/2025.hcinlp-1.1/) (Lin, HCINLP 2025)
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