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What is Online Chat

Chapter 65
Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication
A way of real-time bidirectional communication realized through sending (mainly) text messages via networked computers among people.
Published in Chapter:
Innovations and Motivations in Online Chat
Wengao Gong (National University of Singapore, Singapore) and Vincent B.Y. Ooi (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-863-5.ch065
Abstract
This chapter examines the defining linguistic innovations and social motivations for one of the most popular modes of computer mediated communication: the online chat. Due to its nature of being largely synchronous, anonymous, and mainly text-based, online chat offers a social interactional environment where people can experience the feeling of making new friends or acquaintances, psychologically experiment with different identities, and explore new relationships without the shyness that face-to-face interaction can bring. The largely informal and recreational nature of online chat, together with the time constraints that force communicators to come up with interesting ways to sustain efficient communication, turns online chat into a frontier of linguistic innovation. In turn, this leads to a deeper understanding of the nature of online communities.
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Chapter 15
Chat As New Pedagogy: The Emerging Communities of Learners in Higher Education
A tool that allows participants to create and enter online rooms within which to communicate in real time.
Published in Chapter: Chat As New Pedagogy: The Emerging Communities of Learners in Higher Education; From: Encyclopedia of Information Technology Curriculum Integration
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Chapter 66
Solidarity and Rapport in Social Interaction
Text-based real time communication using instant messaging applications
Published in Chapter: Solidarity and Rapport in Social Interaction; From: Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication
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Chapter 14
Toward Theory and Technique for Online Focus Groups
Online discussion whose participants access the Internet contemporaneously interacting in real time for around a couple of hours (as in a face-to-face exchange (synchronous communication).
Published in Chapter: Toward Theory and Technique for Online Focus Groups; From: Handbook of Research on Digital Information Technologies: Innovations, Methods, and Ethical Issues
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Chapter 65
Innovations and Motivations in Online Chat
A way of real-time bidirectional communication realized through sending (mainly) text messages via networked computers among people.
Published in Chapter: Innovations and Motivations in Online Chat; From: Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication
Full Text Chapter Download: US $37.50 Add to Cart
Chapter 66
Solidarity and Rapport in Social Interaction
Text-based real time communication using instant messaging applications
Published in Chapter: Solidarity and Rapport in Social Interaction; From: Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication
Full Text Chapter Download: US $37.50 Add to Cart
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