Dialogue on the Internet: Language, Civic Identity, and Computer-Mediated Communication

Dialogue on the Internet: Language, Civic Identity, and Computer-Mediated Communication

by Richard Holt
Dialogue on the Internet: Language, Civic Identity, and Computer-Mediated Communication

Dialogue on the Internet: Language, Civic Identity, and Computer-Mediated Communication

by Richard Holt

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Overview

Richard Holt draws on his extensive experience in discourse analysis and Web design to present a picture of the Internet as a potentially powerful tool of civic discourse in the third millennium. Beginning with background on two of the Internet's most prevalent communication forms, email discussion messages and Web pages/sites, the book introduces the concepts of monologism and dialogism. Holt advocates a method of discursive analysis called dual reading, in which Internet utterance is analyzed first monologically and then, dialogically. This method is demonstrated by analyzing email discussions that deal with such varied topics as media, espionage, sexual identity, presidential politics, hate speech, and hate crimes.

This volume contains a multidisciplinary approach, involving a wide range of specializations, from computer science to philosophy. It will appeal to students, teachers, practitioners, and lay readers who are interested in Internet communication, politics, and popular culture. In contrast to many of the doom and gloom accounts of the deficiencies of the Internet, it offers a hopeful vision of the Internet as a means of civic discourse.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781567506792
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 07/30/2004
Series: Civic Discourse for the Third Millennium
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

RICHARD HOLT is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Northern Illinois University.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The World in the Post and the Page
The Development of Dialogism: An Exploration of Major Influence
E-Mail Discussion Messages: A Means for Constructing Civic Identity
Websites as Means for Propagating Civic, Political, and Ideological Concepts
Conclusion
References Cited
Index

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