http://tags.library.upenn.edu/tag/internet+dialog PennTags Feed http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/1106 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/1106 <p>Krolokke begins her essay by recapping recent research in gender and language in cyberspace, including the role of &quot;grrrls&quot; who specifically resist male domination.&nbsp; She then describes her study of 5 MSN channels of Internet Relay Chat (IRC): gay chat, lesbian chat, transgender/transsexual chat, politics2000 chat, and African-American chat for what she calls &quot;playful chat&quot;.&nbsp; She analyzes the transcribed speech for 4 types of language play: abbreviations, paralinguistic cues, hybrid language, and insulting speech. Krolokke uses performance theory to explain gender play online such that she considers &quot;linguistic gender&quot; to mean performing a speech pattern that follows social and cultural expectations or stereotypes associated with the speech of that gender.&nbsp;She explains that in some cases, &nbsp;&quot;IRC provides a space for participants to play out their most convincing performances of parodic linguistic identities.&quot;&nbsp; As such, she provides an argument away from earlier linguists who argued about the inherent differences in male/female communication and towards later &quot;third wave&quot; linguists who see all communication and all contexts as marked for gender, not the speaker him or herself.<a name="abstract" /></p> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/1392 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/1392 This text contains 22 essays, any number of&nbsp;which would be relevant to our class.&nbsp; For my purposes, Chapter 19 on &quot;Charting the Codes of Cyberspace: the Rhetoric of Electronic Mail&quot; by Judith Yaross Lee&nbsp; is important because it seeks to codify email as a hybrid of&nbsp;oral speech and traditional writing. Philip Thompsen continues to discuss online communication strategies in Chapter 20: &quot;What's Fueling the Flames in Cyberspace: A Social Influence Model&quot;.&nbsp; Thompsen attempts to redefine flaming on the internet and propose a social-influence model which incorporates the flaming behavior and the negotiation of what that behavior means to the community. While he does not address gender per se, he does seek to define flaming behavior and explain its consequences to group members over long term online experience. http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/1115 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/1115 This text consists of three sections regarding women's use of the internet.&nbsp; Part One deals with the definition of gender as part of a user's identity on the net, in particular for internet gamers (Paasonen)&nbsp;and female professionals (Dorer)&nbsp; The second part concerns how women are addresses as consumers of the internet and networks, with examples from online communities like Oprah.Com (Cooks/Paredes/Scharrer) and other women's websites (Gustafson).&nbsp; Part Three gives examples of everyday uses of the internet for bringing girls and women together, and also discusses the problems and strategies inherent for lesbians online (Poster).&nbsp; Finally, the fourth and last part talks about gender and new media in the contexts of the school, politics, and television viewing.&nbsp; This looks to be a very interesting text from a sociological perspective which can supplement the other linguistic texts in the bibliography.