Dialogue on the Internet Language, Civic Identity, and Computer-mediated Communication

Name: Dialogue on the Internet Language, Civic Identity, and Computer-mediated Communication
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ISBN: 9780313051388

ISBN-10: 0313051380

ISBN-13: 9780313051388

Edition: N/A

Authors: Richard Holt

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Richard Holt draws on his extensive experience in discourse analysis and Web design to present a picture of the Internet as a potentially powerful tool of civic discourse in the third millennium. Beginning with background on two of the Internet's most prevalent communication forms, email discussion messages and Web pages/sites, the book introduces the concepts of monologism and dialogism. Holt advocates a method of discursive analysis called dual reading, in which Internet utterance is analyzed first monologically and then, dialogically. This method is demonstrated by analyzing email discussions that deal with such varied topics as media, espionage, sexual identity, presidential politics,…

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List price: $113.25
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Binding: E-Book
Language: English