Web 1.0/Web 2.0 Quick reference
The Oxford Companion to the English Language (2 ed.)
...centring around shared interests in people, events, or organizations. Web 2.0 environments are also increasingly multimodal, with users relying on both language (text) and other semiotic resources (image, sound) for the exchange of information and the negotiation of interpersonal relationships. With respect to linguistic scholarship online this shift has been important: not only has it prompted a flurry of scholarship on these new environments and new usages, but the increased social nature of the web has prompted an upsurge in research on identity,...
