Conversation and Community is an examination of the speech community in an Internet 'virtual community'. Based on ethnographic research on a community of users of a MUD, or 'multi-user dimension', the book describes a close-knit community united in features of their language use, shared history, and relationships to other online communities. The author invokes the notion of register, or the variety of speech adapted to the communication situation, in her discussion of how users overcome the limitations of the typed, text medium and exploit its affordances for comfortable communication. Routines, conventional vocabulary and abbreviations, syntactic and semantic phenomena, and special turn-taking and repair strategies distinguish the MUD community's register. Because the MUD is programmable, commands may be added which reflect, alter, or reinforce the linguistic practices and culture of the community; competent speakers must also know the commands that produce the correct linguistic forms.
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Insightful, authoritative, and often quite funny, this is a masterful addition to the canon of virtual ethnography. Lynn Cherny has put her nger on a central but too often underemphasized fact about virtual communities: they're made of words. The rich interplay between text and the texture of online social life has never been more illuminatingly detailed than in Cherny's close analyses of the linguistic habits of her fellow 'MOOers.' -- Julian Dibbell, author of My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World
Reading Cherny's careful ethnographic and linguistic research is the equivalent of spending a decade on-line. Cherny charts the course of the birth, growth and death of several on-line communities and looks at what it takes to create the possibility of true interaction in an on-line world. -- Elizabeth Weise, USA Today
Reading Cherny's careful ethnographic and linguistic research is the equivalent of spending a decade on-line. Cherny charts the course of the birth, growth and death of several on-line communities and looks at what it takes to create the possibility of true interaction in an on-line world. -- Elizabeth Weise, USA Today
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This is an examination of the speech community in an Internet 'virtual community'. Based on ethnographic research on a community of users of a MUD, or 'multi-user dimension', the book describes a close-knit community united in features of their language use, shared history, and relationships to other online communities.
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Experience based analysis,
This review is from: Conversation and Community: Chat in a Virtual World (Paperback)
Lynn Cherny has analysed a chat community at the university through envolved participation. Therefore it is valuable. It's for all a linguistic study. There is some analysis of conflict and alienation but this wasn't the main purpose.
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Excellent research into the social aspects of MUDs.,
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This review is from: Conversation and Community: Chat in a Virtual World (Hardcover)
First off, I'm a college freshman and a MUDder. I found this book in UNLV's library after looking for a book for my sociology class. I picked it up and flipped through it, and decided to check it out. It was a couple of weeks before I actually sat down and started to read it. I do have to say that Ms. Cherny has masterfully dissected what a social MUDder is. Insightful, Entertaining, and Exact, this book is an excellent read for a MUDder.
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A little bit of MUD history will set the stage for more discussion of the ElseMOO community. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
antisocial commands, emoted actions, fewer back channels, simple futurate, mud conversation, dino community, reportive speech, few useful commands, real character names, programmer bits, commentary register, emote command, registered characters, simple present tense, wizard bit, guest character, antisocial feature, telic events, help manners, conversational floor, lynn eyes, turn size, ritual utterances, page conversations, player class Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mouldy Couch Club, Community Group, Dark Hole, Tom Traceback, Architecture Review Board, Wanda June, Goodyear Blimp, The Rosenbergs, Thu Jul, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Feature, Welcome Message New!
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A little bit of MUD history will set the stage for more discussion of the ElseMOO community. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
antisocial commands, emoted actions, fewer back channels, simple futurate, mud conversation, dino community, reportive speech, few useful commands, real character names, programmer bits, commentary register, emote command, registered characters, simple present tense, wizard bit, guest character, antisocial feature, telic events, help manners, conversational floor, lynn eyes, turn size, ritual utterances, page conversations, player class Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mouldy Couch Club, Community Group, Dark Hole, Tom Traceback, Architecture Review Board, Wanda June, Goodyear Blimp, The Rosenbergs, Thu Jul, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Feature, Welcome Message New!
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- Social Psychology by Jim McKnight in Back Matter
- Human Communication by Michael Burgoon in Back Matter
- Organizational Behavior by Richard L. Daft in Back Matter
- Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 19: A: Applications and Case Studies. B: Software and Hardware Interfaces (Advances in Human Factors/Ergonomics) by M. Smith in Back Matter
- What is it? by Rose Williams in Back Matter
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- Encyclopedia of New Media : An Essential Reference to Communication and Technology by Steve Jones on page 71, page 256, and page 327
- Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet by Lisa Nakamura in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet by Lisa Nakamura in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Hanging Out in the Virtual Pub: Masculinities and Relationships Online by Lori Kendall in Back Matter
- The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World by Lawrence Lessig in Back Matter
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