Social media has birthed an entire lexicon replicated by millions online — even if these words don’t actually mean skibidi. On today’s show, we talk to author Adam Aleksic about how TikTok and ...
Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...
This excerpt from Adam Aleksic’s Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language has been abridged for online publication. The book is out on July 15th. The modern-­day incel is ...
Internet slang terms like "boop" and "chef's kiss" were added to major dictionaries in 2024, reflecting the evolution of language. Experts suggest autocorrect may contribute to declining spelling ...
As more than 100 million people use ChatGPT on a daily basis, research has found that such artificial intelligence tools are doing more to the way we communicate than just polishing emails. In the ...
On a recent episode of NPR's Book of the Day podcast, Stefan Fastis, author of Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the ...
Trisha Jandoc was an associate writer at CNET covering broadband and everything related to home internet. She graduated from St. John's University with a bachelor's degree in journalism and a focus on ...
Matthew Karabinos was hesitant to try ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence tool, when it first came out in 2022. The 6th grade math teacher was concerned about what the technology would mean ...
As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. Getty Images, in partnership with global research firm MarketCast, analyzed the way that pictures communicate with people worldwide about ...