Examining African American and Caucasian Interaction Patterns Within Computer-Mediated Communication Environments

2009 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Al Bellamy ◽  
M. C. Greenfield
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Communication Environments

scholarly journals "I Know How You Feel": Multifaceted Insights into the Expression of Support Strategies in Computer-Mediated-Communication

10.29007/wfnj ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Maíz-Arévalo ◽  
Alfonso Sánchez-Moya
Keyword(s):  
Partner Violence ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Linguistic Support ◽  
Support Strategies ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Communication Environments ◽  
Definition Of

This study seeks to explore the wide range of strategies that online users employ to express their linguistic support in computer-mediated-communication environments. Based on a purely semantic definition of the term support, this research puts forward a taxonomy containing several strategies by means of which support can be discursively transmitted in digital contexts. This taxonomy is thus applied to data collected from two prototypical communicative practices taking place online: a Facebook group and an Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) forum, which amounts to a total of 12,327 and 26,452 words respectively. Findings show the most salient realisations for expressing support in these two online settings, drawing on the implications the use of a particular sort of strategy may have with regard to the communicative practices under investigation.

Enhancing Connections Between Students and Instructors: African-American Students' Use of Computer-Mediated Communication

1998 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank W. Griffin ◽  
Lillie Anderton-Lewis
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Historically Black ◽  
African American Students ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Black Colleges ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
American Students ◽  
Safe House ◽  
E Mail

The move to incorporate computer-mediated communication (CMC) into the business curriculum is driven by job market demands for information technol ogy skills. Business instructors may discover, however, a pedagogical bonus: more communication with their students outside the classroom. We studied the perceptions and practices of 138 students in business communications at one of the historically black colleges and universities who used e-mail and the Internet to complete assignments. The results indicate that CMC encouraged students to become active learners and to contact instructors. Anecdotal evi dence suggests that e-mail helps African-American students to see instructors as facilitators, though it does not necessarily become a rhetorical "safe house," where students engage in vernacular discourse. Nevertheless, e-mail fosters an informal rhetorical relationship that rewards openness and collaboration among students and instructors within the formal academic setting.

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