Impulsive Nonconformity in Female Chat Room Users

For three months, Japanese university learners (N=40) utilized the YoTeach! application by Pedagogic and Active Learning Mobile Solutions (PALMS) Project, PolyU as a part of their English discussion class. Researchers re-purposed the application, which originally was designed to be an online classroom backchannel, as an asynchronous, pre-task activity so that learners could exchange ideas about homework topics (e.g. university life, foreign customs) for their discussion. Researchers chose a backchannel chat room rather than a discussion forum to accommodate the learners’ spoken interactions rather than formal discussion. To foster interactions, researchers implemented the YoTeach! application based on principles in the field of second language (L2) development and Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL) from Doughty and Long (2003) and Stockwell and Hubbard (2013). Using learners’ and researchers’ reflection journals, we consider ways we can connect and adapt the principles to our teaching context.

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23. Repair in chat room interaction

Pragmatics of Computer-Mediated Communication ◽

10.1515/9783110214468.565 ◽

2013 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jennifer Baker Jacobs ◽

Angela Cora Garcia

Keyword(s):

Chat Room

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The Hidden Center in Domestic Violence Shelter Fields of Power A Structural Analysis of Primary Source Agents Situated Within the ‘Domestic Violence Shelter’ Field through the Lens of Bourdieu’s Center-Periphery Axis.

International Journal of Pedagogy Innovation and New Technologies ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0014.9144 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 87-96

Author(s):

Kristina Ramskyte

Keyword(s):

Domestic Violence ◽

Structural Analysis ◽

Exploratory Study ◽

Primary Source ◽

Power Dynamics ◽

Chat Room ◽

Domestic Violence Shelter ◽

Technical Issues ◽

System Data ◽

Direct Feedback

This paper is an exploratory study that uses Bourdieu’s ‘Field of Power’ theory to contextualize and place the expressed and hidden centers of power within the domestic violence shelter system, as a function of direct feedback from agents within that system. Data for the study was collected from Reddit, a popular ‘chat-room’ style forum for a variety of social and technical issues. Direct feedback about domestic violence shelter experiences from all participants in that ecosystem was coded based on agent/power dynamics. Results from the study indicate that certain actors within the domestic violence shelter system, namely abusers represent a hidden center of power.

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Interaction in Google Wave Sends Chat Rooms Out with the Tide

Cross-Cultural Interaction ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-4979-8.ch036 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 639-659

Author(s):

Linda Jones

Keyword(s):

Second Language ◽

World Wide ◽

Asynchronous Communication ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Chat Room ◽

Communication Research ◽

Chat Rooms ◽

Message Length ◽

L2 Learning ◽

Innovative Learning

This chapter focuses on Google Wave, a new, emerging world-wide technology by Google that supports both synchronous and asynchronous communication. Research on this technology took place during two sessions of an advanced second language (L2) technology course whereby synchronous conversations in Google Wave were compared to synchronous conversations in Blackboard chat rooms. Students experienced both forms of technology while discussing cross-cultural and pedagogical discussions relevant to L2 learning. Structural comparisons in terms of message length, message turns, numbers of words, and clarification revealed that students were more patient and wrote lengthier, more complex posts when conversing in Google Wave as compared to the chat room. Students’ impressions further confirmed their awareness of writing and reflecting more within Google Wave. These results suggest that Google Wave will support flexible, innovative learning and will provide researchers with multiple opportunities for expanding our understanding of students’ interactions in synchronous environments.

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De-Coupling Groups in Space and Time

Cases on Online Discussion and Interaction ◽

10.4018/978-1-61520-863-0.ch007 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 141-158

Author(s):

Kevin Burden ◽

Simon Atkinson

Keyword(s):

Radical Change ◽

Mailing List ◽

The Internet ◽

Chat Room ◽

Years Of Experience ◽

Broadcast Media ◽

Social Patterns ◽

Space And Time ◽

Personal Media ◽

The Web

Prior to the Web, we had hundreds of years of experience with broadcast media, from printing presses to radio and TV. Prior to email, we had hundreds of years experience with personal media – the telegraph, the telephone. But outside the Internet, we had almost nothing that supported conversation among many people at once. The radical change was de-coupling groups in space and time. To get a conversation going around a conference table or campfire, you need to gather everyone in the same place at the same moment. By undoing those restrictions, the Internet has ushered in a host of new social patterns, from the mailing list to the chat room to the weblog. (Shirky, 2003)

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