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.

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.

Threaded Discussion

2011 ◽  
pp. 1846-1855 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Swan
Keyword(s):  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Threaded Discussions ◽  
Threaded Discussion ◽  
Subject Line ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Multiple Threads ◽  
Over Time

Threaded discussion is a kind of computer-mediated communication (CMC). Specifically, it is an online dialog or conversation that takes the form of a series of linked messages organized topically. Threaded discussions are text based and asynchronous; they develop over time as participants separated in time and space read and reply to existing messages. Messages in a given thread share a common topic and are linked to each other in the order of their creation. Threaded discussions are particularly useful in online venues where multiple discussions develop at the same time. They grow like crystals, with multiple threads expanding simultaneously rather than evolving linearly. Without them, discussion participants would confront a chaotic, unsorted list of messages on many different topics. By linking responses to messages within a common subject line, threaded discussion makes it easier for participants to focus on one conversation and avoid the distractions of unrelated postings.

scholarly journals ‘I refuse to respond to this obvious troll’: an overview of responses to (perceived) trolling

Corpora ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Hardaker
Keyword(s):  
Hate Speech ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Efficient Communication ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Over Time

Computer-mediated communication (CMC) provides many benefits, including quick, efficient communication over time and space. At the same time, however, the anonymity it offers can give a sense of impunity, an illusion that behaviour is less hurtful than it really is, and a suppression of empathy. In short, CMC can be a fertile ground for conflict, and one particular manifestation of this is trolling. Trolling involves deliberately attacking others online, typically for amusement's sake. In some cases, it can be taken to such an extreme that it clearly violates UK legislation on hate-speech, abuse and menace. Whilst forensic linguistic research into threatening and abusive language is, however, gradually growing ( Carney, 2014 ; Chakraborti, 2010 : 99–123; and Fraser, 1998 ), there is a shortage of research into linguistic aggression online, and particularly research into trolling (see, however, Binns, 2011 ; Herring et al., 2002 ; and Shin, 2008 ). In endeavouring to contribute to this under-researched area, this paper seeks to address the question, ‘How do users respond to (perceived) trolling?’ The answer to this is elaborated through the creation of a working taxonomy of response types, drawn from 3,727 examples of user discussions and accusations of trolling which were extracted from an eighty-six million word Usenet corpus. I conclude this paper by discussing the limitations and applications of this research.

Identity, emotions and cultural differences in English and Polish online comments

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Emotional Behavior ◽  
Emotional Communication ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Online Comments ◽  
Cultural Types

Abstract The focus of the present paper is to examine the extent to which the language used in Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and online discourse emotional behavior are good predictors of individual and group cultural types and their identities. It is argued that the identity marking CMC interactants develop has to be stronger, more salient, and, possibly less ambiguous than that used in direct conversation and that the emotionality markers the users apply in their discussion, particularly those engaging negative emotions and reflecting negative judgments, are argued to be used by online discussants for the purpose of increasing the CMC commentators’ conversational visibility. The questions of cultural and linguistic divergence between English and Polish emotional communication patterns are the main points discussed. Three sets of corpus materials are used and the research methodology involves both the qualitative analysis of the emotion types as well as a quantitative (frequency) approach, particularly with respect to culture-specific corpus-generated collocation patterns.

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.

Social Exile and Virtual Hrig

2005 ◽  
pp. 57-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Said Graiouid
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Group Identities ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
And Gender

This chapter explores ways in which computer-mediated interaction and cybercafé culture are appropriated by individuals and groups in Morocco. It argues that computer-mediated communication mediates the construction of cybernetic identities and promotes the rehearsal of invented social and gender relations. This inventive accommodation of the Internet (known among young Moroccan Net communicants as “virtual hrig”) makes computer-mediated interaction, especially through the discursive forum of chatrooms and email discussion groups, act as a backtalk to dominant patriarchal and conservative power structures. By using a qualitative ethnographic approach while sounding the depth of the “cultural noises” and incrustations, which are accompanying the expansion of cyber culture, the author also hopes to foreground the prospective implications of New Media and Information Technologies in a non-Western environment. While it is too early to draw conclusions on the extent of the impact of new media technologies on individual subjectivities and group identities, the point is made that cyber interaction is contributing to the expansion of the public sphere in Morocco.

scholarly journals Koncept zerwanie w dyskursie rosyjskich i angielskich użytkowników forów

2018 ◽  
pp. 227-237
Author(s):  
Natalia Zatoń
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Patterns Of Behavior ◽  
Break Up ◽  
Research Show

The aim of this article is to present the concept of a break-up on Russian and English love forums. In the center of our interest was the question how the feelings and emotions are narrated and whether there are any noticeable gender or cultural differences. Computer Mediated Communication Discourse Analysis was used as  a scientific method in this research. The results of the research show that there are several patterns of behavior which influence the discourse of forum users. Linguistic analysis of the discourse revealed differences between normal communication and computer mediated communication.

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.

A Ghost of a Chance, After All

Derrida Today ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-176
Author(s):  
Laurie Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Post Card ◽  
The Future ◽  
Truth Value ◽  
The Moment

Does a Postal Principle, a principle of destinerrance, hold true for computer mediated communication (CMC)? Perhaps. However, the question is not one concerning technology. Is it rather the case that we must ask, after Derrida, after all, whether destinerrance ever held true, as a principle? This paper considers the prospect that the Postal Principle was, in principle, or as a principle, an expression of a truth value from something that can not in fact, be held at all: the ghost in the machine. Drawing on a phenomenology of computer practice, the paper argues that there is greater explanatory value to be found in Derrida's more recent comments on the relative exteriority of the technological apparatus (in Archive Fever and elsewhere), framing an understanding of the human body as partes extra partes. Yet it is demonstrated here that this same framing was already in place from the moment that the principle of destinerrance was first articulated, and that a subsequent technical turn in Derrida's work merely extends a framework already set in place in the earlier work (in The Post Card, for example). It is argued, then, that in articulating a Postal Principle for the purpose of guaranteeing its failure, Derrida had calculated the future trajectory – and had built the logic of the calculation and of the ‘jet’ words, as he calls them, into this trajectory – of what I call the ‘fantasy of the disembodied virtualm’ through which users of CMC project themselves into the archive of archives that the internet was bound to become.

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