[Air-l] naturally occurring conflicts?

Hi Jonna, Like others I am a bit confused about the meaning of "naturally occurring". My PhD thesis, entitled 'Coprolalia and Shibboleths', devotes a number of chapters to chatroom disputation of the sort I think you would categorise as 'flaming', and I found Labov on ritual insult, and Bakhtinian accounts of 'carnivalesque' language quite useful. Do let me know if you'd like to see the relevant chapters. I'd be very interested to hear of more recent references on dispute and conflict in synchronous CMC. Best, Andrew