Gendered Conversational Rituals on the Internet: An Effective Voice Is Based on More than Simply What One Is Saying

Cushing, Pamela

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“…As reported in the literature, 43,44 these boards performed many of the same functions as traditional support groups. Contrary to research suggesting that OBBs tend to be ‘male in structure’, 45 affective and interpersonal forms of communication typically associated with women dominated this board, where 96% of the messages posted came from women.…”

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Assessing the needs of assisted reproductive technology users of an online bulletin board

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Consumers who are infertile and decide to use assisted reproductive technologies undergo lengthy, expensive and potentially risky medical procedures in their quest for a pregnancy and a live birth. In this research we use a consumer model of decision making to analyse the process. We review information available to consumers and we assess use of an online bulletin board which gives consumers social support and medical information during the process. We conclude with the needs for consumer education and protection.

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“…Typical of women's conversation are details, personal disclosures and anecdotes, cultivating a personal tone and clarifying issues and feelings so that communicators are able to understand and identify with each other (Tannen, 1990;Wood, 1999). This style resembles rapport talk in a private environment (Cushing, 1996;Tannen, 1990). For women, ongoing conversation about feelings and daily activities is a primary way to express and enrich connections between people (Tannen, 1990;Wood, 1998).…”

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“…Cline states, 'Ironically, a literature that attributes the benefits of social support groups to their interactive nature is characterized by research that has systematically excluded investigation of communication processes ' (1999, p. 532). Cushing (1996) conceptualized CMC as a collection of sub-environments with different socio-linguistic styles. Participants within these environments often utilize male conversational patterns.…”

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Gendered Cybersupport: A Thematic Analysis of Two Online Cancer Support Groups

2003

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Within the last few years numerous support groups have emerged on the Internet, presenting new opportunities for patients to communicate with health care professionals and other patients. The present study examines discourse within online cancer support groups, increasing our understanding of sex differences in cybersupport. Two reproductive cancer groups were chosen for this investigation, the Ovarian Problems Mailing List (OPML) and the Prostate Problems Mailing List (PPML), making sex of the patient recognizable. Phenomenological thematic analysis was employed to describe and interpret messages sent and received. Analyses for the two groups were compared. Generally, it was found that the two online listservs provided opportunities for cancer patients to receive support, within western society's accepted forms of gendered communication.

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“…Gendered anonymity is not merely a question of common gender swapping which led earlier researchers to deem internet as egalitarian (Rellstab, 2007;Herring & Stoerger, 2013). Even from the early periods of web, arguments that women tend to be more anonymous in Internet have also been disproved through studies that confirm a conspicuous dearth of female voice and a persistence of male linguistic rituals in the web discourses (Cushing, 1996) and alarmingly sexualized apps and games (Downs & Smith, 2010;Sundén, 2003;Salter, 2014 ). In fact, from the original Turing test that initiated the debate between gender and technology, as Katherine Hayles (1999) shows, this technology had registered woman as an error or a mismatch that stands apart in the system.…”

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Apparatus of Absence: Anonymity from Print to Algorithms

Balakrishnan¹

2019

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The paper tries to problematize the concept and contexts of digital anonymity by placing it along with literary modernity. The biopower that digital text generates has created and complicated an industry of data and surveillance of user profiles and throws the processes of textual subjectification to more visibility. Anonymity in print has been a phenomenon that was consequential of and integral to the institution of authorship. Even if authorship has been an important terrain of interest in digital studies, print authorship in all its socio-cultural specificities as a Eurocentric patriarchal construct within the field of artistic production has rarely been studied in relation to the evolving digital existence. The paper attempts to present an overview of contexts of anonymity in print and a review of existing approaches toward it in the web and to address a theoretical gap found therein. Away from the prevalent moral perceptions about anonymity, the paper presents anonymity as a larger apparatus rooted in the publishing practices in literary modernity where authorship and anonymity remained as mutually augmenting mechanisms of absence and presence. In algorithmic cultures, the materializing of absence as presence endures in more rigid forms necessitating continuous struggles over the question of anonymity. The paper is concluded by referring to gendered anonymity in the digital space as one terrain that reflects the nature of this continuous struggle.

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Gendered Conversational Rituals on the Internet: An Effective Voice Is Based on More than Simply What One Is Saying

Cited by 8 publications

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Assessing the needs of assisted reproductive technology users of an online bulletin board

Assessing the needs of assisted reproductive technology users of an online bulletin board

Gendered Cybersupport: A Thematic Analysis of Two Online Cancer Support Groups

Apparatus of Absence: Anonymity from Print to Algorithms

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