Internet discourse

[Frank Schaap]

Jeff writes:
> I am currently looking for research that deals with internet chat room
> discourse for an analysis piece I am working on. What follows is the
> opening
> of my paper. Can anyone suggest studies that might have a bearing on the
> angle I'm taking? Thank you for your time and assistance.


> Face Among the Faceless: Politeness in Chat Room Discourse

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a few articles on discourse on IRC channels and in MUDs come to mind. i am
not aware of any articles explicitly focussing on politeness in CMC.

personally i have an anthropology background and am mostly interested in
gender/identity construction in CMC and that probably shows from the
articles i have to offer. still, the intrinsically linguistic nature of CMC
forces social scientific researchers to also focus on these qualities and a
lot of very interesting material is a part of those studies.

Cherny, Lynn (1995) The Modal Complexity of Speech Events in a Social MUD.

Cherny, Lynn (1995) Situated Behaviour of MUD Back Channels.

Cherny, Lynn (1995) The MUD Register: Conversational Modes of Action in a
Text-Based Virtual Reality.

Hamman, Robin B. (1996) Cyborgasms. Cybersex Amongst Multiple-Selves and
Cyborgs in the Narrow-Bandwidth Space of America Online Chat Rooms.
Available: http://www.socio.demon.co.uk/Cyborgasms.html

Reid, Elizabeth M. (1991) Electropolis: Communication and Community On
Internet Relay Chat. Available:
http://people.we.mediaone.net/elizrs/electropolis.html

Reid, Elizabeth M. (1994) Cultural Formations in Text-Based Virtual
Realities. Available: http://people.we.mediaone.net/elizrs/cult-form.html

Serpentelli, Jill (n.d.) Conversational Structure and Personality Correlates
of Electronic Communication. Available:
http://ftp.game.org/pub/mud/text/research/conversation.txt


Cherny's articles are available from my homepage, since Cherny's homepage
was a bit broken the last time i visited:

http://people.a2000.nl/fschaap/resources/online_articles.html


i offer these articles because in my own research i have found that it is
hard to find literature _on_ the subject and the literature that is somewhat
connected at least allows you to define the area you're working on more
clearly.

you can find the index to my "cyber" resources page here:

http://people.a2000.nl/fschaap/resources/index.html

anyway, hope this helps :)


Frank.