7.275, Sum: Internet Relay Chat

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-275. Wed Feb 21 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  78
 
Subject: 7.275, Sum: Internet Relay Chat
 
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Date:  Mon, 19 Feb 1996 23:59:30 +0100
From:  eloufjdb at cetus.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE ("Dr. Elke Hentschel")
Subject:  summary: IRC
 
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Date:  Mon, 19 Feb 1996 23:59:30 +0100
From:  eloufjdb at cetus.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE ("Dr. Elke Hentschel")
Subject:  summary: IRC
 
First of all: my thanks go to (in alphabetical order):
 
Sean M. Burke <sburke at nwu.edu>
Brian Callaghan <btcallag at calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Ann DizdarNelson <dizdar at tam2000.tamu.edu>
Joerg Fehr <fehr at zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Jussi Karlgren <karlgren at TOMEK.CS.NYU.EDU>
Marc Picard <PICARD at VAX2.CONCORDIA.CA>
Karen Ward <wardk at cse.ogi.edu>
 
And here is what I got:
 
For the more technical side of the IRC, there is IRC's Homepage at Funet,
Finland:   http://www.funet.fi/~irc/
 
Quite a collection of books and articles on computer mediated
communication can be found at:
http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/gnomic/netze.html
 
Among these, there is one paper dealing exclusively with IRC:
Reid, Elizabeth M. (1991): "Electropolis: Communication and Community on
Internet Relay Chat". Univ. Melbourne [Honours Thesis].
 
Other publications dealing with special aspects of CMC are:
 
Ferrara Kathleen, Hans Brunner and Greg Whittemore. "Interactive Written
        Discourse as an Emergent Register."  _Written Communciation_ 8 (1991):
        8-34.
Herring, Susan, "Participation in Electronic Discourse in a 'Feminist ' Field."
        _Locating Power: Proceedings of the Second Berkeley Women and Language
        Conference_.  K Hall, M. Bucholtz, and  B. Moonwomon, eds. Berkeley:
        Berkeley Women and Language Group, 1992, 250-262.
- ---. "Gender and Democracy in Computer-mediated Communication." _Electronic
        Journal of Communication_. 3 (1993).
- ---. "Posting in a Different Voice: Gender and Ethics in Computer-Mediated
        Communication."  _Philosophical Approaches to Computer-Mediated
        Communication_.  Charles Ess, ed.  Albany: SUNY Press (forthcoming).
- ---. "Politeness in Computer Culture: Why Women Thank and Men Flame."
        _Communicating Across Cultures: Proceedings of the Third Berkeley Women
        and Language Conference_.  Bucholtz and Sutton eds.  Berkeley: Berkeley
        Women and Language Group (forthcoming).
        and Language Conference_.  Bucholtz and Sutton eds.  Berkeley: Berkeley
        Women and Language Group (forthcoming).
Turkle, Sherry.  _Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet_.
        London: Simon and Schuster, 1995.
 
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