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Lee, Hangwoo.

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Implosion and the Internet: Virtual interactivity and interactive virtuality in a Usenet newsgroup.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Implosion and the Internet: Virtual interactivity and interactive virtuality in a Usenet newsgroup./
Author:	Lee, Hangwoo.
Description:	239 p.
Notes:	Major Professor: Jorge Arditi.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-05A.
Subject:	Mass Communications. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3089196

Implosion and the Internet: Virtual interactivity and interactive virtuality in a Usenet newsgroup.
Lee, Hangwoo.

Implosion and the Internet: Virtual interactivity and interactive virtuality in a Usenet newsgroup. - 239 p.

Major Professor: Jorge Arditi.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2003.

Although typically used in close conjunction with Internet-related socio-cultural phenomena, the term virtuality is highly malleable. Its broad range of conceptual scope may reflect a notable implosive nature of contemporary electronic culture that has increasingly been dependent upon simulation and the burring of the boundary between culture and technology (McLuhan 1964; Baudrillard 1994). This paper examines several issues that some implosive structural properties of the interaction on the Internet (e.g., the blurring of geographical, written/spoken, private/public, and real/virtual boundaries) pose in relation to the unfolding of social interactions in cyberspace. In so doing, it conducts a content analysis of messages posted to a Usenet newsgroup by focusing on the domains of hostility, self-presentation, and support, three of the most prominent features of virtual interaction.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017395
Mass Communications.

Implosion and the Internet: Virtual interactivity and interactive virtuality in a Usenet newsgroup.
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520 $a Although typically used in close conjunction with Internet-related socio-cultural phenomena, the term virtuality is highly malleable. Its broad range of conceptual scope may reflect a notable implosive nature of contemporary electronic culture that has increasingly been dependent upon simulation and the burring of the boundary between culture and technology (McLuhan 1964; Baudrillard 1994). This paper examines several issues that some implosive structural properties of the interaction on the Internet (e.g., the blurring of geographical, written/spoken, private/public, and real/virtual boundaries) pose in relation to the unfolding of social interactions in cyberspace. In so doing, it conducts a content analysis of messages posted to a Usenet newsgroup by focusing on the domains of hostility, self-presentation, and support, three of the most prominent features of virtual interaction.
520 $a This research finds that the political debates (e.g., democrats vs. republicans, US vs. non-US) are especially vulnerable to the release of hostility. The appreciation of the inflammatory condition of online discussion often leads to a “norm-alization” of flaming. The hybridity of written/spoken communications articulates in a wordplay for a joke or for a rhetorical tool for an attack on others, the colloquial style of the online writing and misspelling, the provision of hyperlink for supports, and simultaneous, multiple party, and intensive discussions. Regulars of the group appear more often than not to be reluctant to disclose their personal and private information such as a real name, a valid email address, and affiliations. The disembodied and anonymous condition of online interaction, however, may not necessarily hamper the sincerity of the presentation of self. Members of the group keep gleaning identity information about their online partners to build up pattern knowledge of them. Identity cueing is persistent. Self-disclosure covers a broad range of identity information. Therefore, the accountability of self-presentation should be understood as a context-dependent phenomenon. It must be the members of the group who are to judge the sincerity of online self-presentation. The implosive nature of virtual interaction also involves the blurring of boundary between the real and the virtual. Although a registration of and withdrawal from the group may be just a click away, the nature of the interaction within the group is far from being superficial. The supports that the members of the group exchange often make them speak out for the significance of the relationship developed in cyberspace, which may parallel that of offline interactions and relations. In sum, this study argues that, in the folding of the structural constituencies of Usenet into online interaction, Internet culture deepens and reorients the simulation-embedded nature of contemporary electronic culture.
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