Electronic Discourse (Suny Series in Computer Mediated Communication): Linguistic Individuals in Virtual Space

Boyd H. Davis

ISBN 10: 0791434761 / ISBN 13: 9780791434765

Published by State University of New York Press, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Electronic Discourse (Suny Series in Computer Mediated Communication): Linguistic Individuals in Virtual Space
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791434761
• ISBN 13: 9780791434765
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This book examines interactive electronic discourse, exposing use of language that has the immediacy characteristic of speech and the permanence characteristic of writing. The authors created an asynchronous mainframe conference for language and linguistics classes in which they presented students with the task of analyzing the language used in original newspaper reports of the 1960s Civil Rights Sit-Ins. The authors observed how students wrote to each other across a wide range of social and virtual settings, how they built a real, if short-lived community within and across campus boundaries, and how they handled conflict while avoiding confrontation on sensitive issues of race and power. The result is a study that details how people use language when their social interaction is exclusively enacted through text on screens, and how their exchange is affected by computer conferencing.

About the Author

Boyd H. Davis is Professor in the Department of English, University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Her work includes Dimensions of Language and Writing about Literature and Film (with Margaret B. Bryan), among others. Jeutonne P. Brewer is Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She has written Dialect Clash in America: Issues and Answers (with Paul D. Brandes), among others.