Words on the Web : Computer Mediated Communication
Language: English
Published by Intellect, UK, 2000
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1871516560. Softcover, from closed company library. Lending record shows this book has never been borrowed. 124 pages, index, illustrated with charts, photos and diagrams. An insight into computer mediated communication, looking at the developments in people's interaction by electronic systems, devices and networked computers, considering how conventions from both oral and written communication are mixed in this medium. Contents clean, tight and bright.
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- Title
- Words on the Web : Computer Mediated Communication
- Author
- Lyn Pemberton and Simon Shurville
- Publisher
- Intellect, UK
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Very Good
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1871516560
- ISBN 13
- 9781871516562
- Seller catalogs
- computer science
Recent developments in technology have made this a crucial moment for those people studying language behaviour. This book places the reader at the heart of the investigations into what happens when people use language to communicate via computers.
New communication technologies - video conferencing, email and the World Wide Web - have provided a whole new range of ways to interact with others, and students can now observe the emergence and rapid development of linguistic and social conventions for using these media.
The studies in this volume consider what people say when interacting with others via new technologies, and the ways in which we mould and combine the written, the spoken and the non-verbal in order to express ourselves effectively within the confines of the new media available to us. The breadth of activities covered here is extensive, including:
- informal activities such as email and chat-room use
- educational uses of CMC, for collaborative learning and language practice
- integration of CMC into formal work practice - for instance, in an ambulance dispatch centre.
The scope of the book ranges from Conversation Analysis to Genre Theory and from Social Psychology to Politeness Theory. There is much to contemplate for both designers of new communication as well as those commissioning and buying these technologies for our homes, schools and workplaces.
The collection of work here has been edited to recognise the range of disciplines looking to this field and is of direct interest to any linguist, psychologist or other social scientist working in the study of human communication.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
Dr Lyn Pemberton is Principal Lecturer in the School of Information Management at the University of Brighton, with research interests in Computer-supported collaborative design, multimedia for language learning, and interaction design patterns.
Dr Simon Shurville is Educational Technologist at the Technology-Assisted Lifelong Learning Unit of Oxford University's Department for Continuing Education, where he designs and develops Wed-based learning materials.
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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