antropologi.info - anthropology in the news blog

    Nordisk | Auf Deutsch | Anthropology Newspaper | Anthropology Journal Ticker | Journals | Contact

Instant Messaging - Studying A New Form of Communication

by lorenz on Feb 13, 2005 in technology, language, anthropology (general), media

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, Tiffanné 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 (link updated)

SEE ALSO THEIR PAPER: Instant Messaging: Functions of a New Communicative Tool (pdf)

This entry was posted by admin and filed under technology, language, anthropology (general), media.
  • « Anthroscope - a new anthropological radio show
  • Islamophobia - a myth »

No feedback yet


Form is loading...

Search

Recent blog posts

  • More dangerous research: Anthropologist detained, beaten, forcibly disappeared in Egypt
  • When research becomes dangerous: Anthropologist facing jail smuggles himself out over snowy mountains
  • In Europe, more than two thirds of all academic anthropologists are living in precarity
  • Globalisation and climate change in the High Arctic: Fieldwork in Svalbard, the fastest-heating place on earth
  • Nobody is normal: "The line between healthy and not healthy is drawn more by culture than by nature”

Recent comments

  • lorenz on Anthropologists condemn the use of terms of "stone age" and "primitive"
  • Sarn on Anthropologists condemn the use of terms of "stone age" and "primitive"
  • lorenz on ScientificCommons.org - The Open Access Search Engine
  • ARAB NAZ on ScientificCommons.org - The Open Access Search Engine
  • lorenz on The new antropologi.info Anthropology Newspaper and News Ticker

Categories

  • All

Retain only results that match:

XML Feeds

  • RSS 2.0: Posts, Comments
  • Atom: Posts, Comments
What is RSS?

User tools

  • Admin

©2021 by Lorenz Khazaleh • Contact • Help • CMS + forums