Dissent re: e-community talk
Francoise Herrmann (fherrmann who-is-at igc.apc.org)
Mon, 12 Jan 1998 15:15:24 -0800 (PST)
Hi Martin, Hi Rachel, I agree that some school writing is for an
"unknown" audience (although I have done research in settings where
there is much consciousness and affort to set up functional writing
environments, or activity systems etc...). And I disagree with the
comparison of school and writing in an e-community such as e-xmca.
Memebers of xmca may be "invisible" but their intro messages are
quite real and so are the voices. Research on e-communities also
tends to point out that "community" is built at an mazing pace and that
psycho-soc factors are somewhat obliterated. ( I think that in F2F
I would never say "Hi Martin!" to begin with). As pointed out
before, the public nature of these talks tends to put "salutary
pressure at the point of utterance" precisely because it is so easy.
Francoise
Francoise Herrmann
fherrmann who-is-at igc.apc.org
http://www.wenet.net/~herrmann
ref: Wilkins, H (1991) Computer Talk: Long distance conversations
by computer. Written communicaiton, 8(1), 56-77
Keisler et. al. (1984)
Socialpsychological aspects of competer-mediated communicaiton.
American Psychologist 39, 1123-1134.