The Gendered Interactional Patterns of Computer-Mediated Chatrooms: A Critical Ethnographic Study.

Soukup, Charles

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ERIC Number: EJ599670

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1999

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The Gendered Interactional Patterns of Computer-Mediated Chatrooms: A Critical Ethnographic Study.

Soukup, Charles

Information Society, v15 n3 p169-76 Jul-Sep 1999

This study explores the gendered discourse of social-based computer-mediated contexts. Specifically, the critical ethnography explicates the patterns of discourse of male-based and female-based Internet chatrooms and discusses the findings of participant observation. (Contains 36 references.) (Author/LRW)

Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Ethnography, Gender Issues, Group Dynamics, Internet, Participant Observation, Rhetoric, Sex Differences

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Note: Special Issue: The Rhetorics of Gender in Computer-Mediated Communication.