April 2006 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

Re: [Air-l] Non-lexcial items (Intern)
by richard-seyler.ling＠telenor.com 17 Apr '06

17 Apr '06

Check out the work by Naomi Baron and also Susan Herring. Baron's book >From alphabet to email is a good place to start. Rich Ling -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Patricia Lange Sent: Monday, 17 April, 2006 19:05 PM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] Non-lexcial items Hello, I just joined this list. Apologies if you've circulated this recently, but I'm interested in citations on nonlexical items such as uh, um, oh, er, eh, and the like. I'm familiar with (especially older) work by Fox Tree, Cherny, Yngve, Schiffrin, Schourup, Fraser, Heritage, Schegloff, Hosman, Herbert Clark, and Pomerantz. But my main interest is folks who have looked at these terms in online contexts. I wrote a chapter in my dissertation on um. And I'm looking for citations on um and other words used online. Any leads appreciated. Is it your sense that this has been talked about a lot in the literature in terms of online usage? Thanks, Patricia G. Lange, Ph.D. Dept. of Anthropology San Jose State University __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ The air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

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Laughter in CMC.
by joshua raclaw 17 Apr '06

17 Apr '06

Hi all, Does anyone know of any sources that specifically examine the use of laughter in online communications (both 'lexically', as in 'lol' or 'haha', and through textual play, such as '::laughs::')? I'm looking for significant discussions of the use and interpretation of laughter, rather than just short descriptions devoted to this phenomenon within a larger piece of work. Thanks, Joshua Joshua Raclaw - PhD student Department of Linguistics University of Colorado at Boulder http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~raclaw/

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Turn-taking in email
by Bernie Hogan 16 Apr '06

16 Apr '06

Hi Everyone, I'd like to leverage the recent and informative discussion on hedges to ask a related conversation-analysis question. Can anyone point me to discussions of turn-taking online, particularly via email? I know of Marc Smith's work with newsgroups and 'answer-people', Loch et. al.'s paper comparing online and offline turntaking and Rebecca Warner's work, but that's about it. Any input is appreciated, Many thanks, BERNiE Bernie Hogan PhD Student Department of Sociology NetLab, Knowledge Media Design Institute University of Toronto --

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Re African American blog search
by Barry Wellman 16 Apr '06

16 Apr '06

Sociologist Prof. Abdul Alkalimat <AAlkali(a)UTNet.UToledo.Edu> has run an African-American studies list for years, and may well have more info about blogs. I haven't been in touch with him for a few years, so my info may be out of date. Google, and Ye Shall Fine. Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 You're invited to visit -- and contribute to -- my new fun website "Updating Cybertimes: It's Time to Bring Our Culture into Cyberspace" http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________

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searching for genre-specific blogs (Douglas Eyman)
by Andre Brock 16 Apr '06

16 Apr '06

I'm studying African American weblogs and online media for my dissertation; i did a technorati and bloglines search initially, but was really unsatisfied with the results because many of the African American blogs i read weren't included. I did a snowball sample, using informants (bloggers) and their blogrolls, said inspiration being derived by work that Susan Herring and some others have been doing a lot of work on blogs recently (cites below). That worked really well for me, but i should add that it worked well because i was looking for bloggers discussing a specific race-related incident. I did so because such incidents seem to crystallize discussions of identity, which of course in a blogging context is performed discursively and often reified in the comments. Basically, if you're looking for a performance of identity - which is what i'm getting when you use the word "genre" - you need to find content that encourages an articulation of that identity. Thousands of bloggers write about their cats, but cats are pretty much a race-neutral topic. Look for topics that incite comment, and you'll find your target population. Herring, S. C., Kouper, I., Scheidt, L. A., and Wright, E. (2004). Women and children last: The discursive construction of weblogs. In L. Gurak, S. Antonijevic, L. Johnson, C. Ratliff, & J. Reyman (Eds.), Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs. http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/ Herring, S. C., Kouper, I., Paolillo, J. C., Scheidt, L. A., Tyworth, M., Welsch, P., Wright, E., and Yu, N. (2005). Conversations in the blogosphere: An analysis "from the bottom up." Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38). Los Alamitos: IEEE Press. http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/blogconv.pdf Andre -- Andre Brock PhD Candidate - Library and Information Studies Project Athena Fellow POSSE Mentor - UIUC Posse 2 (217.333.4693) University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

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Re: [Air-l] searching for genre-specific blogs (Douglas Eyman)
by Christy Dena 15 Apr '06

15 Apr '06

You can also search and track topics of blogs conversations at BlogPulse: http://www.blogpulse.com/. Ignore if this has already been suggested! Cheers, Christy http://www.cross-mediaentertainment.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:43:22 -0500 From: "Andre Brock" <andre.brock(a)gmail.com> Subject: [Air-l] searching for genre-specific blogs (Douglas Eyman) To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <dc5118540604141243i1cfd582bh57c586129b0d6dbb(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I'm studying African American weblogs and online media for my dissertation; i did a technorati and bloglines search initially, but was really unsatisfied with the results because many of the African American blogs i read weren't included. I did a snowball sample, using informants (bloggers) and their blogrolls, said inspiration being derived by work that Susan Herring and some others have been doing a lot of work on blogs recently (cites below). That worked really well for me, but i should add that it worked well because i was looking for bloggers discussing a specific race-related incident. I did so because such incidents seem to crystallize discussions of identity, which of course in a blogging context is performed discursively and often reified in the comments. Basically, if you're looking for a performance of identity - which is what i'm getting when you use the word "genre" - you need to find content that encourages an articulation of that identity. Thousands of bloggers write about their cats, but cats are pretty much a race-neutral topic. Look for topics that incite comment, and you'll find your target population. Herring, S. C., Kouper, I., Scheidt, L. A., and Wright, E. (2004). Women and children last: The discursive construction of weblogs. In L. Gurak, S. Antonijevic, L. Johnson, C. Ratliff, & J. Reyman (Eds.), Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs. http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/ Herring, S. C., Kouper, I., Paolillo, J. C., Scheidt, L. A., Tyworth, M., Welsch, P., Wright, E., and Yu, N. (2005). Conversations in the blogosphere: An analysis "from the bottom up." Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38). Los Alamitos: IEEE Press. http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/blogconv.pdf Andre -- Andre Brock PhD Candidate - Library and Information Studies Project Athena Fellow POSSE Mentor - UIUC Posse 2 (217.333.4693) University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign ------------------------------ -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.1/312 - Release Date: 14/04/2006

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Journals for Submission
by Mark Marino 15 Apr '06

15 Apr '06

Can you recommend peer-reviewed print journals on computer research? I have an article-length analysis of my recent online survey of those who create and use chatbots (conversational agents) and I'm trying to get a sense of the publications, beyond the lists I have been able to find. My particular line of inquiry was into issues of race, gender, and sexuality as opposed to practical usability questions (if that helps recommend journals). If people have feelings on a hierarchy (top journals to average), please contribute that as well -- I'm sure others on the list have similar questions. I have already consulted the AOIR scholarly resources page. Below is one list I came across. Please add to or comment on these if you are familiar with them. Thank you, Mark Marino Writer Response Theory (WRT) http://WriterResponseTheory.org mmarino(a)writerresponsetheory.org Also @ USC--Writing Program - ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) <tochi.php> - Behavior & Information Technology (BIT) <bit.php> - Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) <hci.php> - Information, Communication and Society - Interacting with Computers <iwc.php> - International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (IJHCI)<ijhci.php> - International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS) <ijhcs.php> - International Journal of Man-Machine Studies (IJMMS) <ijmms.php> - Journal of Usability Studies (JUS) <jus.php> - New Media and Society - Revue d'Interaction Homme-Machine (RIHM) (Journal of Human-Machine Interaction) <rihm.php>

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a ps on hedges
by Davis, Boyd 14 Apr '06

14 Apr '06

A PS on hedges -- is the interest in written text or spoken text or e-text? there will be some methodological differences concerning the analysis for each. Ken Hyland, for example, has some extremely interesting discussions of hedging in written text. There is, as this discussion suggests, more controversy in how to interpret hedges in spoken, transcribed, and electronic text. More recently, several of us have been considering hedges to be part of stance analysis. Boyd Davis

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in response to Bonnie Nardi on hedging in interviews
by Davis, Boyd 14 Apr '06

14 Apr '06

In some cases, these 'fillers'or 'filled pauses' may be hesitation phenomena, self-prompters, time buyers: check the website for Jean Fox Tree http://psych.ucsc.edu/faculty/foxtree/ and see pubs While many analysts omit such tokens when analyzing content, my colleague and I find them essential when tracking issues such as confidence; see www.linguistic-insights.com and see research Hope this helps, Boyd

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hesitations, hedges
by Bonnie Nardi 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

Hello, I have a student interested in theories that explain the use of hesitations, hedges and the like. He has encountered them in his transcriptions and become interested in how to analyze them. What literature should I point him to? I don't know this area at all. Thank you. -- Bonnie Bonnie A. Nardi School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-3425 (949) 824-6534 www.artifex.org/~bonnie/

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