Based on a critical reading of Chapters 2-10, this postscript discusses the present book’s contribution to the emerging framework of sociolinguistic change, which addresses a range of sociolinguistic processes beyond feature-based linguistic change. In a sociolinguistic change framework, media are theorized as spaces of sociolinguistic variation and change in their own right, and media language practices are examined in terms of their relations to non-mediatized language. These include the role of media representations in the enregisterment of speech forms, the uptake and recontextualization of media language fragments, and the circulation of linguistic innovations across modes of mediated communication and user networks. Research on sociolinguistic change offers new perspectives on the interaction between genre, style, and change, for example with regard to the impact of genre change on linguistic change, the role of highly visible media speakers, and the way media performance may reinforce enregisterment.