nEt.SPeAk

Tomorrow's World?

a study of conversational reality within the computer-mediated community


DARTINGTON COLLEGE OF ARTS

Nimrod Jones

A Written Research Paper for Performance Writing BA (Hons) degree

(April 1997)


Contents


Introduction

1. The Casting of the Net

The Birth of a Global Computer Network
The Popularisation of the Net
The Internet Reality

2. The Reality of Language

3. Contextualisation Cues

The Unspoken Element: Paralanguage
Body Language: Kinesics

4. Self-Presentation

The Three-Fold Self
Strategies of Self-Presentation
Lying
Identity

5. Living in Cyberspace

Filtering Out The Cues
Re-Inventing The Cues
Net.Speak
The Narrative Self

Conclusion

Bibliography


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