scholarly journals Impolite viewer responses in Arabic political TV talk shows on YouTube

Pragmatics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 521-544
Author(s):  
Bahaa-eddin A. Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Talk Shows ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Written Discourse ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Online Interactions ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Political Talk

Abstract The article deals with the features of impolite responses of YouTube Arab viewers of political TV talk shows. YouTube comments are written discourse of live commentary, a new genre of computer-mediated communication. Based on data from comments of Arabic viewers of political TV talk shows on YouTube, the article argues that impolite responses appear to be a common feature in Arabic comments in political talk shows on YouTube. Identity and power are reconsidered in this paper as variables that trigger impoliteness in Arabic online responses in political talk shows on YouTube. It argues that obscuring identity online incites the use of conventionalized impoliteness to exercise power on the TV presenter or the TV episode’s guest. The article also shows how communication variables such as context, commentator’s identity and models of communication influence the realization of impolite responses in those online interactions. The study draws on Spencer-Oatey (2007) to correlate identity, power, and impoliteness. It also utilized Culpeper’s (2011) bottom-up model of impoliteness triggers.

Nethnography

2009 ◽  
pp. 1611-1628
Author(s):  
Adriana Andrade Braga
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Online Interactions ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
History Of

This chapter explores the possibilities and limitations of nethnography, an ethnographic approach applied to the study of online interactions, particularly computer-mediated communication. In this chapter, a brief history of ethnography, including its relation to anthropological theories and its key methodological assumptions is addressed. Next, one of the most frequent methodologies applied to Internet settings, that is to treat logfiles as the only or main source of data, is explored, and its consequences are analyzed. In addition, some strategies related to a naturalistic perspective for data analysis are examined. Finally, an example of an ethnographic study, which involves participants of a Weblog, is presented to illustrate the potential for nethnography to enhance the study of CMC.

Making “Real” Connections

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenna L. Clark ◽  
Melanie C. Green
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Amazon Mechanical Turk ◽  
Online Relationships ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Online Interactions ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Perceived Reality

Examining the subjective aspects of online social interaction can help explain contradictory results about the consequences of such interaction. The authors posit a new theoretical construct, the perceived reality of online interactions, defined as the extent to which an individual believes online interactions are suitable for the maintenance and formation of close relationships. Higher perceived reality of online interactions is theorized to lead to more investment and effort in computer-mediated communication, thus increasing benefits such as perceived social support from online relationships. An experiment using an Amazon Mechanical Turk sample (n = 169) and undergraduate students (n = 88) found correlational evidence that perceived reality of online relationships predicted perceived social support from online sources. Additionally, patterns of correlations between perceived reality, personality traits, and general attitudes toward the Internet point at differential implications of this variable between samples.

Nethnography

2011 ◽  
pp. 488-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Andrade Braga
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Online Interactions ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
History Of

This chapter explores the possibilities and limitations of nethnography, an ethnographic approach applied to the study of online interactions, particularly computer-mediated communication. In this chapter, a brief history of ethnography, including its relation to anthropological theories and its key methodological assumptions is addressed. Next, one of the most frequent methodologies applied to Internet settings, that is to treat logfiles as the only or main source of data, is explored, and its consequences are analyzed. In addition, some strategies related to a naturalistic perspective for data analysis are examined. Finally, an example of an ethnographic study, which involves participants of a Weblog, is presented to illustrate the potential for nethnography to enhance the study of CMC.

The meta-conventionalisation and moral order of e-practices

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 352-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dániel Z. Kádár ◽  
Saeko Fukushima
Keyword(s):  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Moral Order ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Online Interactions ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Popular Novel

Abstract This paper overviews the phenomenon of the meta-conventionalisation of interpersonal practices in the context of computer-mediated communication. The term ‘meta-conventionalisation’ refers to the coding of the conventional interpersonal practices of a particular group, or various groups, in the form of entertainment as films and novels. The word ‘meta’ refers to the fact that such pieces of artwork narrate a set of conventional practices from a quasi-observer point of view, without involving their audience in these practices as language users – in this sense they are different from good practice guides (typically described as ‘netiquette, in the context of e-pragmatics), which assume that readers will internalise the practices they describe. Meta-conventionalisation has been an understudied phenomenon, in spite of representing an important aspect of our daily lives. We illustrate how this phenomenon operates by examining a Japanese case study: a popular novel which features the online interactions of a group of otaku, that is, asocial young people who lock themselves up and interact in highly specific ways.

Self-Denigration in 21st Century Chinese

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dániel Z. Kádár ◽  
Ling Zhou
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
The Self ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Online Interactions ◽  
Computer Mediated

AbstractThe present paper aims to explore the characteristics of the self-denigration phenomenon in present-day Chinese, hence revisiting a key Chinese linguacultural phenomenon from a contemporary angle. We investigate the following understudied phenomenon: Self-denigration has changed together with Chinese interpersonal language use and interactional technologies, and is currently being used in remarkably innovative ways, in particular in the domain of online interactions. While various historical self-denigrating forms have remained in use, significantly more newly invented ones have gained popularity. We argue that the cluster of self-denigrating forms used in present-day Chinese can fulfil a variety of sociopragmatic functions. Some of these functions - such as showing off - paradoxically contradict with the conventional understanding of self-denigration as a ceremonial form of deference behaviour expressing modesty. Our investigation is based on data drawn from computer-mediated communication (CMC), as well as semi-structured interviews.

scholarly journals Internet Discourse as a Form of Speech

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (36) ◽  
pp. 57-63
Author(s):  
Antonina P. Lipatova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Hybrid Form ◽  
Written Discourse ◽  
Generation Z ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Oral Speech ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Written Speech

Traditionally, there are distinguished two forms of speech (oral and written). In the era of widespread digitalization, a new (computer-mediated) communication is emerging. The question arises, what form of speech generates a new type of communication, a special - hybrid - form of speech (“oral-written”) or a variety of existing forms. An attempt to answer this question is the task of the article. During the research it was found that the nature of this form is hybrid: it organically combines the beginning of both oral discourse and written speech. At the same time oral and written speech has its own pragmatics, which is different from the pragmatics of known forms of speech. If oral speech is designed to promote communication, written speech is designed to preserve information, then oralwritten discourse is a platform for the realization and manifestation of the individuality of the author of speech. The author of oral and written speech creates his identity, recreates the image of his “I” anew. Hence the leading “modus” of oral and written speech. Oral speech is “over-phonetic”: it has a rich arsenal of verbal and non-verbal means for conveying information, as well as for expressing emotions. Written speech has almost no extra-linguistic, additional means of expression, it is super-grammatical. In the context of oral-written discourse, the individual expresses himself (builds or transforms an already created image) often by playing with the form. Oral-written discourse on the Internet is “super graphic”. The peculiarity of representatives of generation Z lies in the almost simultaneous (parallel) mastery of written and oral-written speech. This cannot but affect the process of mastering writing skills by modern adolescents

Impoliteness online

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manfred Kienpointner
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Online Discourse ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Online Interactions ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Online Texts

Abstract This paper provides an overview of the strategies and techniques of hate speech in online discourse (on online discourse or computer-mediated communication in general cf. e.g., Schwarzhaupt-Scholz 2004; Schmidt 2013; Dittler and Hoyer 2014; Seargeant and Tagg 2014). Based on a collection of online texts belonging to different genres (discussion forums, blogs, social media, tweets, homepages), this paper will provide a qualitative analysis of destructively impolite utterances in online interactions. This analysis will make use of the standard typologies of impoliteness and their recent extensions (such as Culpeper 1996, 2005, 2011; Kienpointner 1997, 2008; Kleinke and Bös 2015), but some modifications and elaborations of these typologies will also be taken into account. Moreover, social, cultural and political reasons for the recent dramatic increase in hate speech in online interactions will be explored. Finally, the problem of how to deal with this destructive use of language will be briefly discussed and some possible solutions will be suggested (cf. Banks 2010).

Knowing Through Asynchronous Time and Space

2012 ◽  
pp. 108-122
Author(s):  
Ping Yang
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Online Interactions ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
The Future

This chapter reports the results of a study that employed phenomenological and dialectical perspectives to explore cultural differences in computer-mediated communication. An analysis of the dialectic of minimization and amplification manifested in students’ online experiences and the significance of contextual variations, power structures, and other features of online interactions allow us to see the processual, relational, and contradictory nature of cultural differences online. They also provide information that can facilitate more effective intercultural online interactions in the future.

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