ABSTRACT
Over the past decade, there has been increasing interest in the ways in which new media present possibilities for changes in how language is used. One of the themes within this emerging body of research is the deployment of multiple languages in computer-mediated communication (CMC) (Danet and Herring, 2007), especially among people who do not speak English as their first language. While a considerable amount of research has investigated multilingual writing on traditional websites and in earlier forms of computer-mediated communication such as email, discussion forums and instant messaging (e.g. Lee, 2007; Warschauer et al., 2007), we have been interested in whether a newer generation of web applications, or the so-called Web 2.0, further encourage multilingualism in writing and new forms of multilingual relationships between people.
