Hello, Andrea, I find Walter Ong's concept of "secondary orality" useful. See Walter Ong's _Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word_, Routledge, 1982. Good luck in your research. -^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^- Marcelo A. Vieta, BA First Class Honours Communication, MA Communication PhD Candidate in Social and Political Thought, York University c:: +1.416.940.0340 e:: vieta@yorku.ca w:: www.vieta.ca/thoughts “However, another alternative seems possible.” ~Marcuse On 23-Mar-06, at 3:14 PM, andrea baker wrote:

Hi, all, In working on an article about expression emotion online, I remember early on in the literature on online communication, someone used the term "talk/write" to describe online textual communication, whether in chat or email. Understanding that theoretically anyone could put those two words together to describe the tone of much online interaction, especially among friends, I wonder if you know who first used those words in a scholarly book or article?

Also, feel free to suggest any other terms or to provide links to those.

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Hi Andrea, I used the term "talk/write" in my PhD and some other previously published articles. I don't know if I coined the term and I'm not entirely sure when I first used it but in doing so I used concepts from Young (1994) as in the following excerpt in an article I had published (pre-PhD) in 1999 (full details here: http://www.readingonline.org/articles/dudfield/frame.html): "Language use in this text is highly complex and sophisticated. It is "both physical (letters on the screen) as it is in books, and fleeting and ethereal like speech . . . a strange middle ground between written and oral sensibilities" (Young, 1994). Users interact by "talking" with one another, but that talk is "talk written down." What occurs in this form of communication is an interface between oral and written language, with its own unique textual and linguistic features." So I think it could be attributed to ideas from Young. Young, J.R. (1994). Textuality in cyberspace: MUDs and written experience. The Electronic Frontier Foundation. Available (December 1998) at http://www.eff.org/pub/Privacy/Security/Hacking_cracking_phreaking/Net_cultu... But if you can't find a reference for it, let me know and I'll check my old papers for the first time I used it (likely 1999 or 2000). Kind Regards, Angela http://anya.blogsome.com Quoting andrea baker <bakera@ohiou.edu>:

Hi, all, In working on an article about expression emotion online, I remember early on in the literature on online communication, someone used the term "talk/write" to describe online textual communication, whether in chat or email. Understanding that theoretically anyone could put those two words together to describe the tone of much online interaction, especially among friends, I wonder if you know who first used those words in a scholarly book or article?

Also, feel free to suggest any other terms or to provide links to those.

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