Investigates the new world of computer conferencing and details how
writers use language when their social interaction is exclusively
enacted through text on screens.
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 Sitlns. 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.
The students who wrote in the electronic conferences faced two
interrelated tasks: participating in a multiparty "conversation"
and negotiating the individual identities they presented to one
another in their virtual space. Individual writers used their own
idiolects to influence the form and content of electronic
discourse, adapting their own tacit knowledge of conversational
strategies and written discourse to the new medium, as they created
a real, although temporary, community.
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