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Conversation and community : chat in a virtual world

Title
Conversation and community : chat in a virtual world / Lynn Cherny.
Author
Cherny, Lynn.
Publication
Stanford, Calif. : CSLI Publications, ©1999.

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Book/TextUse in library HM756 .C48 1999Off-site

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Description
v, 369 pages; 24 cm
Summary
Based on ethnographic research on a community of users of a MUD, or multi-user dimension, this text describes a close-knit community united in features of their language use, shared history, and relationships to other online communities.
Series Statement
CSLI lecture notes ; no. 94
Uniform Title
CSLI lecture notes ; no. 94.
Subject
  • ElseMOO
  • ElseMOO
  • Communities > Computer network resources > Case studies
  • Social interaction > Computer network resources > Case studies
  • Multi-user dungeons > Case studies
  • Internet > Social aspects
  • Communities > Computer network resources
  • Internet > Social aspects
  • Multi-user dungeons
  • Social interaction > Computer network resources
  • Chatten Kommunikation
  • Interaktion
  • Virtuelle Realität
  • Sociale aspecten
  • Internet
  • Chatten
  • Virtuele gemeenschappen
  • Chatten (Kommunikation)
Genre/Form
  • Case studies
  • Case studies.
  • Études de cas.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-369).
Contents
Introduction to MUDs -- Welcome to ElseMOO -- Features of the MUD Register -- Medium Effects: Turn-Taking and Back Channels -- Emotes and the Simple Present Tense -- MUD Community -- Postscript: Method and Ethics -- Appendix A. LambdaMOO's "Help Manners" File -- Appendix B. ElseMOO Online Documents -- Appendix C. Some Welcome Messages on ElseMOO.
ISBN
  • 1575861550
  • 9781575861555
  • 1575861542
  • 9781575861548
LCCN
99019792
OCLC
  • ocm40890990
  • 40890990
  • SCSB-8804110
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library