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Innovations and Motivations in Online Chat

Innovations and Motivations in Online Chat

Wengao Gong, Vincent B.Y. Ooi
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781599048635|ISBN10: 1599048639|EISBN13: 9781599048642
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-863-5.ch065
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Gong, Wengao, and Vincent B.Y. Ooi. "Innovations and Motivations in Online Chat." Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication, edited by Sigrid Kelsey and Kirk St.Amant, IGI Global, 2008, pp. 917-933. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-863-5.ch065

APA

Gong, W. & Ooi, V. B. (2008). Innovations and Motivations in Online Chat. In S. Kelsey & K. St.Amant (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication (pp. 917-933). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-863-5.ch065

Chicago

Gong, Wengao, and Vincent B.Y. Ooi. "Innovations and Motivations in Online Chat." In Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication, edited by Sigrid Kelsey and Kirk St.Amant, 917-933. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2008. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-863-5.ch065

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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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