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Sunday, February 13, 2005, 18:45
Instant Messaging - Studying A New Form of Communication
Susan D Blum, U Notre Dame, Anthropology News, American Anthropological Association
Teaching an upper-division undergraduate class on linguistic anthropology, �Doing Things with Words,� at the University of Notre Dame, nothing got my students so excited�not gossip, not gender, maybe accent�as the topic of Instant Messaging
As a team, my eight students (Theresa Davey, Anastasia Envall, Mark Gernerd, Tiffann� Mahomes, Maria Monroe, Jenna Nowak, Matthew Patricoski and Jacob Weiler) and I investigated every aspect of Instant Messaging that we could to assess how it was affecting�if it was affecting�students� daily experiences. The fact that IMing involves writing but is conceptualized as talk makes it especially germane for linguistic anthropological analysis. >> continue
SEE ALSO THEIR PAPER: Instant Messaging: Functions of a New Communicative Tool
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