See you Online: Gender Issues in College Student Use of Instant Messaging.  

Oleh:

Baron, Naomi S.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Language and Social Psychology (Full Text) vol. 23 no. 4 (2004), page 397-423.
Topik: instant messaging; IM; Gender
Fulltext: 397.pdf (145.15KB)

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Instant Messaging (IM) is becoming a mainstay for online one-to-one communication. Although IM is popularly described as a written version of informal speech, little empirical investigation of the linguistic nature of IM exists. Moreover, although gender issues are being addressed for one-to-many forms of computer-mediated communication,we have no comparable studies of IM. This article offers a linguistic profile of American college student IM conversations. In addition to analyzing conversational scaffolding and lexical issues, the article identifies gender divergences in IM usage. Some differences reflect commonly functional gender distinction.

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