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Online Interaction and Threaded Discussion

Online Interaction and Threaded Discussion

Hongbo Song, Shuyan Wang
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 8
ISBN13: 9781599048819|ISBN10: 1599048817|EISBN13: 9781599048826
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-881-9.ch105
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Song, Hongbo, and Shuyan Wang. "Online Interaction and Threaded Discussion." Encyclopedia of Information Technology Curriculum Integration, edited by Lawrence A. Tomei, IGI Global, 2008, pp. 670-677. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-881-9.ch105

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Song, H. & Wang, S. (2008). Online Interaction and Threaded Discussion. In L. Tomei (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Information Technology Curriculum Integration (pp. 670-677). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-881-9.ch105

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Song, Hongbo, and Shuyan Wang. "Online Interaction and Threaded Discussion." In Encyclopedia of Information Technology Curriculum Integration, edited by Lawrence A. Tomei, 670-677. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2008. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-881-9.ch105

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Abstract

Human beings are social creatures who habitually communicate with each other and share among themselves. Human interaction is the interchange of suppositions, intentions, and meanings. As a vital thinking and socializing tool, interaction is essential for every human activity and is a complex symbolic process in which meaning is created and negotiated as persons in conversations coconstruct their social realities (as cited in Comeaux, 2002). In fact, “The formation of opinion takes place through conversation of individuals with members of groups to which they belong or through that inner conversation of thought which is outer conversation imported into the mind” (Mead, 1938, p. 616). Mead’s “inner conversation of thought” supports the claim that human beings are meaning driven by not only the result of social interaction, but also meanings reprocessed through interpretation (Blumer, 1969).

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