[Xmca-l] Re: Vygotsky and texting

[Greg Thompson]

McCulloch, Gretchen (2019). “Emoji and Other Internet Gestures.” In *Because
Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language*. New York: Riverhead
Books.
NB: I'm not so sure that abbreviation hasn't always been around in writing
too.
-greg
p.s., do you think the fact of abbreviation in writing makes much
difference to Vygotsky's argument?


On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 7:55 AM Glassman, Michael <glassman.13@osu.edu>
wrote:

> So I am reading Vygotsky with a class. The first time I am reading his
> work in a few years. We are starting with chapter 7 of thinking and speech,
> thought and word because – well I wanted to and I am the instructor (can’t
> beat the perqs). I run across something really interesting that would not
> have had much meaning pre-Internet – well meaning (or sense, I don’t know),
> but not as much as today. He is talking about the different forms of
> communication and he talks about how we abbreviate in verbal speech (our we
> move inner speech out to social communication) but not really in written
> speech. This was mostly true the first time I read it. But this time it
> made me think of blogging and especially micro-blogging. We tend to
> abbreviate all the time, more than in normal verbal communication, but it
> is written communication. In class we of course discussed space limitations
> but it seems more than that. Somebody brought up the example of sub-Reddits
> some of which have a great deal of abbreviated communication. We also got
> in to a big discussion of emojis. I mean people use them, but really why do
> we have them and why do people use them so easily (they were originally
> organic and then tech companies began standardizing them. It made me
> wonder, is micro-blogging and blogging actually a new and different form of
> mediated communication, different from both verbal and formal written
> communication.  Does anybody know of any work on this. I am having my
> students do their blog assignments this week using abbreviations and emojis
> and memes.  I am really interested to see what happens.  Anybody know of
> any research on this?  Have any thoughts? (I would do an emoji to end but I
> am really bad at them. But I will say I was pwnd by my students in class
> when discussing this).
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