scholarly journals Sacralizing Reality Digitally: YouTruths, Kennewick Claims and the First Americans

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-56
Author(s):  
Mads Damgaard
Keyword(s):  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
Specific Hybrid ◽  
First Americans ◽  
Scientific Arguments

Marshalling scientific arguments and methods for religious ends is certainly not a new trend in religious expressions, but new modes of writing scientifically legitimated myths has developed online. Computer-mediated communication provides new tools for such a fusing of religion and science, and the present article asks what this entails for categories of religious authority and authenticity. Taking online expressions of the Neo-Pagan faith called Asatrú, a 9,500 year-old skeleton and an associated modern North American conspiracy theory as the starting points, a configuration of religious authenticity derived from scientific sources is analysed. The case is made that through hyperlinks, YouTube videos and discussion forums, religious communities such as the online Asatrú groups strategically assemble religious authority on a foundation of science, tapping into non-religious ecologies of knowledge available online. This puts into question theoretical premises such as notions of the secular and differentiation of rationalities. Research in CMC and religion, it is argued, must take into consideration the specific hybrid knowledges facilitated by online structures and technologies.

Making and Sharing YouTube Videos, History, and YouTube Economics and Advertising

2016 ◽  
pp. 26-62
Keyword(s):  
Hate Speech ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Fair Use ◽  
Corporate Ownership ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Youtube Videos

Less than 2 years after YouTube was created, the search engine giant Google bought the start-up for 1.65 billion dollars. According to the Associated Press, the announcement “came just a few hours after YouTube unveiled three separate agreements with media companies to counter the threat of copyright infringement lawsuits” (Liedtke, 2006). Years later, YouTube's legal concerns continue, as Google has recently lost a court battle, forcing it to remove content from YouTube. Google is appealing the decision to a higher court (Landau & Marquez, 2014). The recent lawsuit is just one example of YouTube's significant and global influence and its deep and abiding connection with larger social concerns and institutions, such as freedom of expression, the power of democracy, and computer-mediated communication. YouTube's history, corporate ownership and influence, cultural recognition as a place that can promote hate speech and bullying tactics, and the continued legal challenges that threaten individual rights to fair use and freedom of expression all define YouTube's power as part of the new evolution of the Internet and Web 2.0. Tempering YouTube's democratic potential and cultural importance is YouTube LLC's predetermined economic goal to increase revenue streams through advertising and content creation. To those ends, YouTube provides detailed instructions on how to make videos and how to advertise. A detailed case-study of one video's path through the creation and advertising process on YouTube illustrates how user-generated videos become YouTube videos.

Preparing Participants for Computer Mediated Communication

2009 ◽  
pp. 290-298
Author(s):  
Robert Jordan
Keyword(s):  
Population Analysis ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Step Model ◽  
Online Environments

Computer mediated communication (CMC) provides a way of incorporating participant interaction into online environments. Use of such features as discussion forums and chats enhance collaborative work and learning. For many, however, CMC may be an unfamiliar medium. To ensure a successful CMC event, it is essential to adequately prepare participants for CMC. A proposed four step model prepares participants for CMC. The four steps include conducting a needs and population analysis, providing an orientation before the event and shortly after the event begins, and providing continuing support.

Le forum de discussion: espace public des temps modernes

2021 ◽  
Vol 9788879169776 ◽  
pp. 89-105
Author(s):  
Maria Rosa Compagnone
Keyword(s):  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Writing Practices ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Reading Text ◽  
Espace Public ◽  
Intimate Life

Discussion forums on the web concern a large number of subjects such as domestic life (recipes and cooking), intimate life (pregnancy and sex life) or intellectual life (scientific subjects, school homework). Our study focuses on the analysis of the messages exchanged on the forums alfemminile.com, aufemminin. com, skuola.net, doctissimo.it and doctissimo.fr and its aim is therefore to examine, from a linguistic point of view, a type of network communication, discussion forums. While the research falls within the scope of analyzing the specifics of computer-mediated communication (CMO), it also helps to identify the diversity of writing practices with regard to the standard. Moreover it allows us to enrich our knowledge on the situation of text production, on writing, on reading text but also on the fictitious identity adopted by users such as genderswapping. This work, in a more general framework, will make it possible to know the trends in writing, which now integrates different semiotic forms, and finally to reflect on the influence of the medium on the very nature of the messages and the limits of this influence.

scholarly journals Types of Interaction in Online Discussion Forums: A Case Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zuheir Khlaif ◽  
Hamid Nadiruzzaman ◽  
Kyungbin Kwon
Keyword(s):  
Learning Community ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Online Learning Community ◽  
Online Discussion Forums ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Midwestern University

The purpose of this paper is to identify the types of students’ interaction, as well as their discussion patterns in an online course. The study took place in a large Midwestern University and 17 graduate students participated in the study. The primary data was obtained from students’ discussion forum postings. The researchers used both qualitative and quantitative approaches to describe and analyze the types of discussion and interaction. The researchers developed a coding scheme based on theories and models. The findings of the study reveal that computer mediated communication (CMC) has a positive potential to increase interaction among students. Furthermore, the findings confirm the effectiveness of asynchronous online environment in supporting online learning community. Participants were engaged in social interaction to build their knowledge. This study recommends two-way interaction for achieving sustainable discussion and promoting higher level of interaction.

scholarly journals A Description of Asynchronous Online Discussions in Higher Education

10.29007/bh4n ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Javier Fernández-Polo ◽  
Mario Cal-Varela
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Complex Structure ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Situational Factors ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Online Discussion Forums ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Asynchronous Online Discussions

This study provides a preliminary characterisation of asynchronous online discussions as a learning tool in higher education (Garrison 2003; Ho & Swan 2007). Our materials consist of the written record of 16 online discussions, totalling circa 165,000 words, from a one-semester course on general English-Spanish-English translation. The participants are second-year students from different nationalities, mostly Spanish, using Spanish and less frequently Galician as lingua francas. We start by describing the various situational factors surrounding the events (including the role of the discussions in the course, the variety of participants and the nature of their relationship), which may explain some highly recurrent language and organisational features encountered in the resulting texts. Secondly, using Antconc, we carry out an exploratory analysis of the lexical and collocational patterns of the exchanges. The findings reveal a very strong interactive component (Herring 1999, Condon & Čech 2010), with two dominant functions, the creation of affiliation and the prevention of conflict. The analysis shows a widespread use of praise, hedging and other forms of politeness in the posts, and, more generally, a clear concern for the interests of other participants in the discussion and an effort to acknowledge their voices. In the paper, we also look into the evolution of the exchanges over the time-span of the course by focusing on one case study. The analysis reveals the progressive crystallisation of the genre in the student’s interventions, a process which involves a clear evolution from a rather tentative kind of post, mostly monologic, informational and author-centred, to a progressively longer post with a more complex structure, and especially a heightened awareness of the dialogic and multi-party nature of the exchanges (Herring 1996). The results of the study may have considerable pedagogical interest. We believe that computer-mediated communication (CMC), including asynchronous online discussion forums, is bound to play an increasingly significant role in the future of higher education.

Le forum de discussion: espace public des temps modernes

2021 ◽  
Vol 9788879169776 ◽  
pp. 89-105
Author(s):  
Maria Rosa Compagnone
Keyword(s):  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Writing Practices ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Reading Text ◽  
Espace Public ◽  
Intimate Life

Discussion forums on the web concern a large number of subjects such as domestic life (recipes and cooking), intimate life (pregnancy and sex life) or intellectual life (scientific subjects, school homework). Our study focuses on the analysis of the messages exchanged on the forums alfemminile.com, aufemminin. com, skuola.net, doctissimo.it and doctissimo.fr and its aim is therefore to examine, from a linguistic point of view, a type of network communication, discussion forums. While the research falls within the scope of analyzing the specifics of computer-mediated communication (CMO), it also helps to identify the diversity of writing practices with regard to the standard. Moreover it allows us to enrich our knowledge on the situation of text production, on writing, on reading text but also on the fictitious identity adopted by users such as genderswapping. This work, in a more general framework, will make it possible to know the trends in writing, which now integrates different semiotic forms, and finally to reflect on the influence of the medium on the very nature of the messages and the limits of this influence.

Listening Communities? Some Remarks on the Construction of Religious Authority in Islamic Podcasts

2008 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 457-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Selge ◽  
Johannes Zimmermann ◽  
Jan Scholz ◽  
Max Stille
Keyword(s):  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Authority Structures

AbstractIn the context of the vivid activity of Muslim individuals and groups on the Internet and the recent technological developments in the field of computer mediated communication, podcasts offering a wide range of religious information and/or advice to Muslim (and non-Muslim) listeners play an increasingly important role. Being an integral part of the Web 2.0's online landscape and presenting, at the same time, many characteristics of more “traditional” audio media such as cassette recordings, podcasts cannot only be located at the intersection between virtual space and “real world”, but represent, as a medium, also a direct continuation of older forms of Muslim media usage for da'wa-purposes and propagandistic aims. This article attempts to analyze in how far the use of podcasts (and to a smaller extent of videocasts) by Muslim groups and individuals contributes to the emergence of a Muslim online “counter public” sometimes challenging, sometimes reinforcing existing authority structures. Special attention is paid to the question which means and features specific to this new medium Muslim podcasters use to legitimize their religious authority, and to the question in how far established symbol systems commonly relied upon in the Muslim community are used as instruments for the construction of religious online authority and the redistribution of Definitionsmacht. Furthermore, it discusses to what extent questions of “right belief” and “correct religious practice” play a role in these processes. For this purpose, style and content of four selected podcasts (Zaytuna Institute Knowledge Resource Podcast, MeccaOne Media Podcast, Ahmadiyya Podcast, Alt.muslim Review) are analyzed in order to illustrate different ways in which this new medium is used by Muslim groups today. It is shown that podcasts—as part of the overall media spectrum—are used by Muslim groups for internal and external da'wa-purposes, as well as for the reinforcement of existing power and authority structures (e.g. by projecting the presence of the group's leader both into time and into space) and as a means to cope with institutional and communal crisis. They might also become an important instrument not for the (re-)construction, but for the deconstruction of religious authority.

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).

Understanding the Virtual Community of Gamers

2011 ◽  
pp. 1714-1721
Author(s):  
Shafiz Affendi Mohd Yusof
Keyword(s):  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Geographical Distance ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Chat Rooms ◽  
Time Zone ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Bulletin Boards

Virtual community can be defined as “a group of people who may or may not meet one another face-to-face and who exchange words and ideas through the mediation of computer bulletin boards and networks” (Rheingold, 1993, p. 1). With the use of computer-mediated communication (CMC) technologies such as listservs, bulletin boards, discussion forums, and chat rooms, the time zone differences become less critical and geographical distance and limitations diminish.

Preparing Participants for Computer Mediated Communication

2011 ◽  
pp. 25-33
Author(s):  
Robert Jordan
Keyword(s):  
Population Analysis ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Step Model ◽  
Online Environments

Computer mediated communication (CMC) provides a way of incorporating participant interaction into online environments. Use of such features as discussion forums and chats enhance collaborative work and learning. For many, however, CMC may be an unfamiliar medium. To ensure a successful CMC event, it is essential to adequately prepare participants for CMC. A proposed four step model prepares participants for CMC. The four steps include conducting a needs and population analysis, providing an orientation before the event and shortly after the event begins, and providing continuing support.

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