Computer-Mediated Communication

Linguistic, social, and cross-cultural perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 1996
ISBN: 978-90-272-5051-3
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 39, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 745 g

Reihe: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series

Text-based interaction among humans connected via computer networks, such as takes place via email and in synchronous modes such as “chat”, MUDs and MOOs, has attracted considerable popular and scholarly attention. This collection of 14 articles on text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC), is the first to bring empirical evidence from a variety of disciplinary perspectives to bear on questions raised by the new medium.
The first section, linguistic perspectives, addresses the question of how CMC compares with speaking and writing, and describes its unique structural characteristics. Section two, on social and ethical perspectives, explores conflicts between the interests of groups and those of individual users, including issues of online sex and sexism. In the third section, cross-cultural perspectives, the advantages and risks of using CMC to communicate across cultures are examined in three studies involving users in East Asia, Mexico, and students of ethnically diverse backgrounds in remedial writing classes in the United States. The final section deals with the effects of CMC on group interaction: in a women’s studies mailing list, a hierarchically-organized workplace, and a public protest on the Internet against corporate interests.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Herring, Susan C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
- Introduction
- I. Linguistic Perspectives
- Electronic Language
- Oral and written linguistic aspects of computer conferencing
- Linguistic and interactional features of Internet Relay Chat
- Functional comparisons of face-to-face and computer-mediated decision making interactions
- Two variants of an electronic message schema
- II. Social and Ethical Perspectives
- Managing the virtual commons
- Our passionate response to virtual reality
- Cyberfeminism
- III. Cross-Cultural Perspectives
- Computer-mediated conversations as a new dimension of intercultural communication between East Asianand North American college students
- Perceptions of American culture
- Visible conversation and academic inquiry
- IV. CMC and group Interaction
- Group dynamics in an e-mail forum
- Writing to work
- The rhetorical dynamics of a community protest in cyberspace
- References
- Index of names
- Index of subjects