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A virtual barbeque: a corpus linguistics approach to studying an emergent community

A virtual barbeque: a corpus linguistics approach to studying an emergent community
A virtual barbeque: a corpus linguistics approach to studying an emergent community
The background:
The concept of community in an online context is a relatively recent phenomenon, and deals with social groupings formed through the shared medium of computer mediated communication (CMC). In addition, thecivic metaphor (for instance, the 'virtual community') is coming to replace the information super highway asthe dominant metaphor for understanding and constructing cyberspace. As a concept centrally related to the civic metaphor, it is therefore important to understand what we mean by 'virtual community', a expression much used in varying contexts to encompass disparate social groupings. There is, consequently, a need toidentify the constituent features that differentiate between genuine online community (which, we argue, involves networks of personal relationships) and other social aggregations
Horton, Roz
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Giordano, Richard
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Horton, Roz
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Giordano, Richard
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Horton, Roz and Giordano, Richard (1997) A virtual barbeque: a corpus linguistics approach to studying an emergent community. Annual Meeting of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and The Association for Computing in the Humanities, Queens University, Kingston, Canada. 03 - 07 Jun 1997. 4 pp .

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The background:
The concept of community in an online context is a relatively recent phenomenon, and deals with social groupings formed through the shared medium of computer mediated communication (CMC). In addition, thecivic metaphor (for instance, the 'virtual community') is coming to replace the information super highway asthe dominant metaphor for understanding and constructing cyberspace. As a concept centrally related to the civic metaphor, it is therefore important to understand what we mean by 'virtual community', a expression much used in varying contexts to encompass disparate social groupings. There is, consequently, a need toidentify the constituent features that differentiate between genuine online community (which, we argue, involves networks of personal relationships) and other social aggregations

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Published date: 4 June 1997
Venue - Dates: Annual Meeting of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and The Association for Computing in the Humanities, Queens University, Kingston, Canada, 1997-06-03 - 1997-06-07

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Local EPrints ID: 470123
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/470123
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ORCID for Richard Giordano: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2997-9502

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Author: Roz Horton

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