scholarly journals Verbal Aggressiveness in Communication in Media and Online. A Case Study of the TV Cooking Show »Spread«

Bohemistyka ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jindřiška Svobodova ◽  
Eva Nováková
Keyword(s):  
Social Roles ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Communicative Interaction ◽  
Verbal Aggressiveness ◽  
Communicative Acts ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Clear Tendency ◽  
Self Image

The paper discusses verbal aggressiveness and (im)politeness in media and online communication. The analysis focuses on transcriptions of communicative acts by participants of the TV reality Spread! ("Prostřeno!", a Czech version of the programme Come Dine with me) and viewers' comments in related online discussions. The analysis indicated that the use of face-threatening acts was determined by a type of communicative interaction and interlocutors' social roles. Striving to construct a positive self-image, the participants in the show did not take the risk of losing their face due to usage of derogatory or vulgar expressions in face-to-face inter- actions. The anonymous online discussions, on the contrary, did not pose any risk for the positive faces of the speakers; therefore, the interlocutors showed clear tendency to either appreciate and support, or attack the contestants as well as other speakers. 

Bridging the Gap

2013 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Divonna M. Stebick ◽  
Mary L. Paxton
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Metacognitive Development ◽  
Book Discussion ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Online Book

In this chapter, the researchers used an ethnographic stance to demonstrate how conversation evolved within a social media platform. They investigated the online discussions and face-to-face dialogues between teacher educators and pre-service teachers. They compared the participants’ reciprocal conversations within this case study to analyze patterns in the language used in each forum in order to identify the affordances and constraints of perceived understanding. Through this discourse analysis the authors sought to identify indicators of each participant’s metacognitive development while engaging in an online book discussion through a social media platform. Data analysis indicated that there was metacognitive growth when comparing the initial reciprocal conversations with the final conversations.

scholarly journals Online Workers

2021 ◽  
pp. 53-66
Author(s):  
Jamie Woodcock
Keyword(s):  
Online Communication ◽  
Mechanical Turk ◽  
Amazon Mechanical Turk ◽  
Digital Networks ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Labour Process

The focus shifts in this chapter towards online workers. It first differentiates between microworkers and online freelancers, discussing the role of automation and the technical composition of these kinds of work. The chapter contrasts the challenges of organising in this kind of work with transport platforms, particularly the lack of opportunities to meet face-to-face. It draws attention to the digital networks that form around this work in response to the challenges of the labour process. Recent struggles involving Amazon Mechanical Turk and Rev (transcription) workers show the potential for these workers to coordinate and build shared subjectivities through online communication. This case study is explored as an example with a significantly more challenging technical composition, yet shows how new moments of struggle are still coming to the fore.

scholarly journals The Psychology of Online Political Hostility: A Comprehensive, Cross-National Test of the Mismatch Hypothesis

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Bor ◽  
Michael Bang Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Test ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Behavioral Experiments ◽  
Total N ◽  
Human Psychology ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Communication Environments ◽  
Mismatch Hypothesis ◽  
Cross National

Why are online discussions about politics experienced as more hostile than offline discussions? A popular answer builds on the argument that human psychology is tailored for face-to-face interaction and, accordingly, people’s behavior changes for the worse in impersonal online discussions. We provide the first theoretical formalization and empirical test of this explanation: the mismatch hypothesis. We argue that mismatches between human psychology and novel features of online communication environments could (a) change people’s behavior, (b) bias their perceptions and (c) create adverse selection effects. We leverage five cross-national representative surveys and online behavioral experiments (total N=7510) to test the mismatch hypothesis but find little to no evidence. Rather, we find that online political hostility reflects the behavior of individuals predisposed to be hostile in all (including offline) contexts. Yet, because their behavior is more likely to be witnessed on public online platforms, these are perceived to induce more hostility.

scholarly journals Teaching Emotional Intelligence Online: The Sociology of Discussion Boards

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Velda Arnaud ◽  
Yongsheng Sun
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Communication Effectiveness ◽  
Discussion Boards ◽  
College Setting

Student engagement in an online class has always been a challenge to faculty. We all know that online courses can be difficult for some students, and online discussions do not always turn out as planned. How do we maximize our online communication effectiveness? In a case study of an Emotional Intelligence course in a community college setting, we looked at this through a sociological lens and built on the perspective of socialization theories and conceptions to see students quickly become engaged in discussions with their classmates and openly share their concerns. Data was analyzed and lessons learned.

Promoting Peer-to-Peer Synchronous Online Discussions

2020 ◽  
pp. 283-310
Author(s):  
Sumei Wu ◽  
Paige Ware ◽  
Meei-Ling Liaw
Keyword(s):  
Peer Interactions ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
The United States ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
Group Interactions ◽  
Online Communication Tools

This chapter examines ways to support peer-to-peer synchronous discussions that move beyond the basic exchange of information toward complex online intercultural communication. It begins by providing an overview of the affordances and challenges of online communication tools. It then explores how tasks and facilitation protocols were structured into small-group interactions through the lens of a case study in which teachers from Taiwan and the United States collaborated for 13 weeks in an online project, for which a structured facilitation protocol was designed based on a framework from teacher education, the Principled Use of Video. It draws on examples from the teachers' peer-to-peer interactions to highlight ways in which the tasks and protocols elicited intercultural discussions focused on topics of importance to their unique contexts. It ends by summarizing key takeaways with an emphasis on pedagogical implications and suggestions for future research.

scholarly journals Lurking and L2 Learners on a Facebook Group: The Voices of the Invisibles

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Latisha Asmaak Shafie ◽  
Aizan Yaacob ◽  
Paramjit Kaur Karpal Singh
Keyword(s):  
Language Proficiency ◽  
English Language ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
L2 Learners ◽  
Esl Learners

<p>This qualitative research investigates the practice of lurking among English as a second language (ESL) learners in a Facebook group discussion. Lurking is a term used to describe the activity of following and observing any online discussions or activities without contributing to the discussions. Lurkers are often accused of being invisible and passive participants. Facebook groups with international members usually uses English as the medium of communication in their group discussions. It is a norm for L2 learners to lurk in the group. These L2 learners often do not have the required English language proficiency and the confidence to participate actively in the group they join. This study explores lurking behaviours of three participants in learning English in informal Facebook contexts. This study uses a qualitative case study. The study involved three L2 learners who were university students and members of a Facebook group. The study involved online observation and semi-structured interviews with these three participants. Their Facebook accounts and a common Facebook group were observed for 14 weeks, and after the online observation, the participants were interviewed. Data collected from online observation and semi-structured interviewed were analysed and managed using Atlas.ti 7. The study reveals five emerging themes such as that lurkers have poor online communication skills, lack of confidence, learning by lurking, lack of a sense of belonging and lurking is the norm of Facebook groups.</p>

scholarly journals Writing bugchasing ethnoperformance: Creative representations of online interactions

Sexualities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 154-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime García-Iglesias
Keyword(s):  
Online Communication ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Online Interactions ◽  
Online Spaces ◽  
The Creation

In this piece, I discuss the creation of ethnoperformance as a method of exploring and representing online spaces. I highlight the need for writing that acknowledges the influence of technology in online communication and argue for the suitability of ethnodrama as a writing method. In particular, I focus on bugchasers – men who fetishize HIV – and their online discussions. Bugchasers’ comments to a forum, articulated as a five act ethnoperformance, serve as a case study to showcase how this form of writing allows users to discuss their negotiations of fantasy/reality while also acknowledging the uncertainty of online spaces and the mediation by technology. I finally defend the view that the visceral reactions ethnodrama produces generate interesting reflexive standpoints from which to research stigmatized practices and ideas.

scholarly journals A New Space for Biotechnology Innovation?

Economics ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 1626-1649
Author(s):  
David Tamoschus
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Integration ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Geographical Patterns ◽  
Integration Mechanisms ◽  
New Space ◽  
Technological Opportunities

New technological opportunities and online communication constantly gain importance for knowledge integration and knowledge creation in any innovation-driven environment. The cooperation between firms and individual actors in biotechnology was characteristically organized in local or regional clusters, based on face-to-face communications and strategic temporary linkages to other clusters. However, this archetypal configuration can change with the emerging use of open innovation models such as online research communities. A qualitative case study including an analysis of forums within an open source biomedical research platform portrays how knowledge integration mechanisms, and hence, innovations are implemented in virtual space. In this newly created environment, a number of geographical patterns are inverted: The strong role of physical co-location is partly substituted by enabled online proximity and new opportunities of virtual “prototype-sharing”; the former global pipelines are transformed to local and virtual cross-community pipelines. Yet mechanisms of creating social coherence and stability illustrate noteworthy similarities with “localized capabilities” of regional agglomerations. Eventually, knowledge integration capabilities ensure that the network can operate as a successful knowledge provider.

scholarly journals “My ADHD Hellbrain”: A Twitter Data Science Perspective on a Behavioural Disorder

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Thelwall ◽  
Meiko Makita ◽  
Amalia Mas-Bleda ◽  
Emma Stuart
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Word Association ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Hyperactivity Disorder ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Behavioural Condition ◽  
Communication Needs

AbstractPurposeAttention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common behavioural condition. This article introduces a new data science method, word association thematic analysis, to investigate whether ADHD tweets can give insights into patient concerns and online communication needs.Design/methodology/approachTweets matching “my ADHD” (n=58,893) and 99 other conditions (n=1,341,442) were gathered and two thematic analyses conducted. Analysis 1: A standard thematic analysis of ADHD-related tweets. Analysis 2: A word association thematic analysis of themes unique to ADHD.FindingsThe themes that emerged from the two analyses included people ascribing their brains agency to explain and justify their symptoms and using the concept of neurodivergence for a positive self-image.Research limitationsThis is a single case study and the results may differ for other topics.Practical implicationsHealth professionals should be sensitive to patients’ needs to understand their behaviour, find ways to justify and explain it to others and to be positive about their condition.Originality/valueWord association thematic analysis can give new insights into the (self-reported) patient perspective.

A New Space for Biotechnology Innovation?

2014 ◽  
pp. 154-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Tamoschus
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Integration ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Geographical Patterns ◽  
Integration Mechanisms ◽  
New Space ◽  
Technological Opportunities

New technological opportunities and online communication constantly gain importance for knowledge integration and knowledge creation in any innovation-driven environment. The cooperation between firms and individual actors in biotechnology was characteristically organized in local or regional clusters, based on face-to-face communications and strategic temporary linkages to other clusters. However, this archetypal configuration can change with the emerging use of open innovation models such as online research communities. A qualitative case study including an analysis of forums within an open source biomedical research platform portrays how knowledge integration mechanisms, and hence, innovations are implemented in virtual space. In this newly created environment, a number of geographical patterns are inverted: The strong role of physical co-location is partly substituted by enabled online proximity and new opportunities of virtual “prototype-sharing”; the former global pipelines are transformed to local and virtual cross-community pipelines. Yet mechanisms of creating social coherence and stability illustrate noteworthy similarities with “localized capabilities” of regional agglomerations. Eventually, knowledge integration capabilities ensure that the network can operate as a successful knowledge provider.

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