The Spring 2017 version of the UMass Magazine reports on Lisa Green’s collaborative case study of dialect in Twitter conversations among African Americans (with Brendan O’Connor and Su Lin Wang Blodgett from the College of Information and Computer Sciences). “Twitter gives us real, live data about the way people actually talk,” she says. “It’s exciting for linguists because we know all languages change, but now we can actually see change in progress and map it geographically.” The magazine also features a video of Lisa.