COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION LINGUISTIC, SOCIAL AND CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Historical background on CMC research -- Key issues in CMC research -- CMC as data -- Organization of the volume -- Overview of the chapters -- NOTES -- I: LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVES -- Electronic Language: A New Variety of English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Purpose -- 3. Descriptive framework -- 3.1. Biber's multidimensional-multi-feature model (MD-MF) -- 3.2. The Electronic Language corpus (ELC) -- 4. Method -- 5. Results -- 5.1. Textual dimensions -- 5.1.1. Dimension 1: Informational vs. involved production -- 5.1.2. Dimension 2: Non-narrative vs. narrative -- 5.1.3. Dimension 3: Situation-dependent vs. explicit -- 5.1.4. Dimension 4: Overt expression of persuasion -- 5.1.5. Dimension 5: Non-abstract vs. abstract information -- 5.1.6. Dimension 6: On-line informational elaboration -- 5.2. Situational features -- 6. Extending the description -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- Oral and Written Linguistic Aspects of Computer Conferencing: A Corpus Based Study -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Collecting the data -- 2.1. Building a corpus of CMC interactions -- 2.2. Creating the CMC corpus -- 2.2.1. The 50 message selection -- 2.2.2. The full conference selection -- 2.2.3. Sample from full conferences -- 2.2.4. Spoken and written corpora -- 3. The textuality of CMC -- 3.1. Type/token ratios of vocabulary use -- 3.2. Results of a type/token ratio analysis across three media -- 3.3. The lexical density of CMC -- 4. Modality of CMC -- 4.1. Personal reference -- 5. Ideational aspects of CMC -- 5. Conclusion -- NOTES -- Linguistic and Interactional Features of Internet Relay Chat -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Interactive written discourse and IRC: A brief sketch.

3. Some discursive properties of IRC -- 3.1. Addressivity -- 3.2. Abbreviation -- 3.3. Paralinguistic and prosodic cues -- 3.4. Actions and gestures -- 4. Conclusion -- NOTES -- Functional Comparison of Face-to-Face and Computer-Mediated Decision Making Interactions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data collection -- 3. Data analysis -- 3.1. The structure of decision-making interactions -- 3.2. The role of markedness in decision structures -- 3.3. Functional categories and the organization of the coding system -- 4. Results -- 5. Conclusions -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Two Variants of an Electronic Message Schema -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and methodology -- 2.1. Data -- 2.2. Methodology -- 3. The basic electronic message schema -- 3.1. Recurrent macrosegments -- 3.1.1. Epistolary conventions -- 3.1.2. Introductions -- 3.1.3. Body -- 3.1.4. Close -- 3.2. The basic electronic message schema -- 4. Gendered variants of the basic schema -- 4.1. The aligned variant -- 4.2. The opposed variant -- 4.3. Gender vs. list norms -- 4.4. Gender vs. discussion topic -- 5. Summary and conclusion -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- II: SOCIAL AND ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES -- Managing the Virtual Commons: Cooperation and Conflict in Computer Communities -- 1. The problem of cooperation -- 2. The Usenet -- 3. Social dilemmas in cyberspace -- 4. Managing the virtual commons -- 4.1. Group size and boundaries -- 4.2. Rules and institutions -- 4.3. Monitoring and sanctioning -- 5. Conclusions -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- Our Passionate Response to Virtual Reality -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. MUDs and MOOs -- 1.2. Virtual sex -- 2. What happens in VSex? Protocols of sex in the virtual environment -- 2.1. Descriptions -- 2.2. Behavior and "netiquette" -- 2.3. Privacy -- 2.4. Sexual interactions and orientations -- 2.5. Erotic enhancement -- 3. On-line sexual issues.

3.1. Examination of gender roles and preferences -- 3.2. Increasing awareness and compassion on gender-related issues -- 3.3. Examination of the mechanics of individual attraction and love -- 3.4. Freedom of expression issues -- 4. Conclusions -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- Cyberfeminism -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Liberal cyberfeminism -- 2.1. Liberal cyberfeminism on the Internet -- 2.2. Cybermasculinity meets liberal cyberfeminism -- 2.2.1. Conversational dominance -- 2.2.2. Textual harassment -- 2.2.3. Heterosexism -- 2.2.4. Physical hierarchies and the "talking penis " -- 3. Radical cyberfeminism -- 3.1. Name conformity -- 3.2. Anti-flaming policy -- 3.3. Support and respect -- 3.4. Political correctness -- 3.5. Separatism and the creation of a cyberculture -- 3.6. Signatures -- 4. Conclusion -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- III: CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES -- Computer-Mediated Conversations as a New Dimension of Intercultural Communication between East Asian and North American College Students -- 1. Introduction -- 2. CMC and interpersonal relationships -- 3. CMC between East Asians and North Americans -- 4. An empirical study -- 4.1. Method -- 4.2. Results -- 4.2.1. Responses pertaining to Proposition 1 -- 4.2.2. Responses pertaining to Proposition 2 -- 4.2.3. Responses pertaining to Proposition 3 -- 4.2.4. Responses pertaining to Proposition 4 -- 4.2.5. Responses pertaining to Proposition 5 -- 5. Discussion and conclusions -- NOTE -- Perceptions of American Culture: The Impact of an Electronically-Mediated Cultural Exchange Program on Mexican High School Students -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Program objectives -- 1.2. The CMC program -- 1.3. The study -- 2. Quantitative research -- 2.1. Subjects -- 2.2. Instrument -- 2.3. Data analysis -- 2.4. Conclusions -- 3. Qualitative research -- 3.1. Instruments -- 3.2. Data analysis.

3.2.1. Questionnaire answers -- 3.2.2. Recorded Interviews -- 3.2.3. Student work -- 3.2.4. Cooperative projects -- 3.3. Conclusions -- 4. Discussion and further research -- NOTES -- Appendix -- Visible Conversation and Academic Inquiry: CMC in a Culturally Diverse Classroom -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A pedagogical design for CMC -- 3. Some pedagogical effects of CMC -- 3.1. Sustaining computer-mediated conversations -- 3.2. CMC and the novice learner -- 3.3. A computer-mediated community -- 3.3.1. The dynamics of computer-mediated conversations -- 3.3.2. CMC and distributed authority -- 3.3.3. Authentic tasks -- 3.3.4. CMC as a tool for building academic communities -- 3.4. Written conversation -- 3.4.1. Practicing academic language -- 3.4.2. Practicing text structures -- 3.4.3. Practicing academic dialogue -- 4. Conclusion -- NOTES -- IV: CMC AND GROUP INTERACTION -- Group Dynamics in an E-Mail Forum -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Questionnaire study -- 3. Observation study -- 4. Patterns of participation on WMST-L -- 5. Discussion -- 5.1. Crossing boundaries -- 5.2. "Groupness" -- 5.3. Norms -- 5.3.1. Forms of discourse -- 5.3.2. Metacommunication -- 6. Conclusion -- NOTES -- Appendix -- Writing to Work: How Using E-Mail Can Reflect Technological and Organizational Change -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1. Computer-mediated writing and organizational behavior -- 2.2 . Writing as social dialogue -- 3. Method -- 3.1. Site and participants -- 3.2. Data collection -- 3.3. Data analysis -- 4. Findings -- 4.1. Fitting into a technology-centered culture -- 4.2. The role of e-mail within AIS and Telecommunications -- 4.3. The case of the ISDN article -- 5. Discussion and implications -- 5.1. How do people work together differently when electronic forms of communications are made available?.

5.2. How do such technologies interact with the social patterns of the workplace? -- 5.3. How does the availability of electronic mail influence the hierarchical structures within the workplace organization -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- Appendix -- The Rhetorical Dynamics of a Community Protest in Cyberspace: What Happened With Lotus Marketplace -- 1. Introduction: Electronic rhetorical forums -- 2. Background: The case of Lotus Marketplace -- 3. Speed of delivery: CMC focuses the message -- 4. Community ethos and values in cyberspace -- 5. Leadership in a net-based protest -- 6. Credibility and network information -- 7. A clash of communities in the cyber-forum -- 8. Implications for CMC and community action: Toward a rhetoric of public debate on networks -- NOTES -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- The series Pragmatics & Beyond New Series.