Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning: Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis

By Susan C. Herring. 2004

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Subfields: Communication, Human-Computer Interaction

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The online support group as a community: A micro-analysis of the interaction with a new member (2010, background): “Just like offline communities, computer-mediated communities are discussed in terms of traits such as norms and values, objectives, a culture, solidarity, conflict, group awareness, roles and rituals (Herring, 2004).”
Introduction: Sociolinguistics and computer-mediated communication (2006, methodology): “In Herring’s framework of computer-mediated discourse analysis (Herring 2004), virtual community is operationalized on six dimensions: (a) active, self-sustaining participation around a core of regular participants; (b) the emergence of roles, rituals, and hierarchies; (c) evidence of shared…”
Ambient affiliation: A linguistic perspective on Twitter (2011, background): “…for its vagueness, there has been a debate surrounding the criteria for establishing the bounds of online communities, the structure of community and how communities are built or emerge (see for example Hagel and Armstrong, 1997; Jones, 1997; Burnett, 2000; Wellman, 2001; Herring, 2004, 2008).”
When is an email really offensive?: Argumentativity and variability in evaluations of impoliteness (2010, background): “While blogs and newspaper discussion boards are similar genres in that both involve an initial discursive position outlined by either the blogger or the newspaper followed by an invitation for multiple others to post responses, and also use a similar medium in that users are able to post comments an”
Intercultural Questioning, Discovery and Tension in Internet-mediated Language Learning Partnerships (2005, background): “…and speculative, rather than empirically grounded’, despite the fact that CMC, in contrast to spoken language, is ‘persistent and self-preserving, an ideal medium in which to mine language for all the insights it can provide into social structures and mental states’ (Herring, 2004b: 216).”