Listserver communication during the gulf war: What kind of medium is the electronic bulletin board?

Ogan, Christine

doi:10.1080/08838159309364214

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“…Partners in roma ntic relationships were the most likely to eventually meet face to face (57.9%) (statistics adopted from McDowell, 2001). This is confirmed by reports of mail, telephone, photo exchange as additional means for CMC (Parks and Floyd, 1996;Ogan, 1993;Reid, 1991).…”

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Panel on: Maintaining Identity in the Virtual World Virtual Fraud and Misinformation in the New Age: Revisiting Grice’s Cooperative Principle

Wang

Lu²

2003

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Naturally, humans seek physical and psychological joy. Romance, for instance, is one of the means. People are making quick use of the Internet technology to facilitate their seeking of romantic and quasiromantic experience via "virtual reality." In this paper we concern ourselves mainly with meaning ge neration and interpretation in the virtual world. With analysis of a reported case of online deception as empirical evidence, we question in the conditions and assumptions Grice based on for his theoretical proposition of the Cooperative Principle. Our research suggests that deception in online romance is hard to find out because the virtual reality does not provide sufficient conditions for generation of conversational implicatures as suggested by Grice's Cooperative Principle.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 57%

Panel on: Maintaining Identity in the Virtual World Virtual Fraud and Misinformation in the New Age: Revisiting Grice’s Cooperative Principle

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Lu²

2003

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“…Partners in romantic relationships were the most likely to eventually meet face-to-face (57.9% according to McDowell, 2001). This is confirmed by reports of mail, telephone, photo exchange as additional means that supplement computer-mediated communication (Ogan, 1993;Parks & Floyd, 1996;Reid, 1991).…”

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Cyberdating: Misinformation and (Dis)trust in Online Interactions

Wang

2007

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“…Traditional social groups and communities provide many benefits for their members, including opportunities for affiliation or companionship (McClelland 1985, Roberts 1998, Rubenstein and Shaver 1980; opportunities to influence people (Winter 1973); social support (Wellman andWhortley 1989, 1990;Wellman 1990); access to information; the ability to disseminate ideas rapidly (Kaufer and Carley 1993); and support for collective action (Ostrom 1990). Likewise, online social structures provide a variety of benefits by supporting the development of interpersonal relationships, feelings of companionship, and perceptions of affiliation (Furlong 1995, Hiltz 1985, Meyer 1989, Rheingold 1993, Walther 1994; encouraging discussion and knowledge sharing (Abbot 1988, Kraut and Attewell 1993, Wellman 1995; allowing individuals to access information and quickly disseminate their ideas (Constant et al 1996, Finholt and Sproull 1990, Whittaker 1996; providing social and emotional support (King 1994, McCormick and McCormick 1992, Rice and Love 1987, Walther 1996; and enabling collective activities such as software development and political action (Ogan 1993). Whether traditional or computer-mediated, social structures provide a variety of benefits for individual members, enabling them to attract and retain members.…”

Section: Resource Availability Benefit Provision and Sustainabilitymentioning

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Membership Size, Communication Activity, and Sustainability: A Resource-Based Model of Online Social Structures

Butler

2001

Information Systems Research

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As telecommunication networks become more common, there is an increasing interest in the factors underlying the development of online social structures. It has been proposed that these structures are new forms of organizing which are not subject to the same constraints as traditional social structures. However, from anecdotal evidence and case studies it is difficult to evaluate whether online social structures are subject to the same problems as traditional social structures. Drawing from prior studies of traditional social structures and empirical analyses of longitudinal data from a sample of Internet-based groups, this exploratory work considers the role of size and communication activity in sustainable online social structures. A resource-based theory of sustainable social structures is presented. Members contribute time, energy, and other resources, enabling a social structure to provide benefits for individuals. These benefits, which include information, influence, and social support, are the basis for a social structure's ability to attract and retain members. This model focuses on the system of opposing forces that link membership size as a component of resource availability and communication activity as an aspect of benefit provision to the sustainability of an online social structure. Analyses of data from a random sample of e-mail-based Internet social structures (listservs) indicate that communication activity and size have both positive and negative effects on a structure's sustainability. These results suggest that while the use of networked communication technologies may alter the form of communication, balancing the opposing impacts of membership size and communication activity in order to maintain resource availability and provide benefits for current members remains a fundamental problem underlying the development of sustainable online social structures.

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Listserver communication during the gulf war: What kind of medium is the electronic bulletin board?

Cited by 43 publications

References 16 publications

Panel on: Maintaining Identity in the Virtual World Virtual Fraud and Misinformation in the New Age: Revisiting Grice’s Cooperative Principle

Panel on: Maintaining Identity in the Virtual World Virtual Fraud and Misinformation in the New Age: Revisiting Grice’s Cooperative Principle

Cyberdating: Misinformation and (Dis)trust in Online Interactions

Membership Size, Communication Activity, and Sustainability: A Resource-Based Model of Online Social Structures

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