18. The maxims of online nicknames

Lindholm, Loukia

doi:10.1515/9783110214468.437

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“…Herring 2010; Rintel and Pittam, 1997;Woodruff and Aoki, 2004). CMC and EM-oriented studies have examined what makes online social interaction distinctfor instance, by pinpointing certain features that separate text-only online conversation from spoken interaction: turn-taking (e.g., Cech and Condon, 2004;Garcia and Jacobs, 1999), sequence organization, repair (Markman 2010), the norms related to responding (Skovholt and Svennevig, 2013), CMC's conversational maxims (Crystal 2001;Lindholm 2013), openings and lack of embodied conduct (e.g., Meredith 2019), etc. Scholars doing such work appreciate the fact that software-related factors may shape these and other aspects of the interaction, including the problems faced (e.g., misinterpretation of silences; see Garcia and Jacobs, 1999) problems that may be exploited in trolling.…”

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Disruptive online communication: How asymmetric trolling-like response strategies steer conversation off the track

Paakki

Vepsäläinen

Salovaara

2021

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Internet trolling, a form of antisocial online behavior, is a serious problem plaguing social media. Skillful trolls can lure entire communities into degenerative and polarized discussions that continue endlessly. From analysis of data gathered in accordance with established classifications of trolling-like behavior, the paper presents a conversation analysis of trolling-like interaction strategies that disrupt online discussions. The authors argue that troll-like users exploit other users’ desire for common grounding – i.e., joint maintenance of mutual understanding and seeking of conversational closure – by responding asymmetrically. Their responses to others deviate from expectations for typical paired actions in turn-taking. These asymmetries, described through examples of three such behaviors – ignoring, mismatching, and challenging – lead to dissatisfactory interactions, in that they subvert other users’ desire for clarification and explanation of contra-normative social behavior. By avoiding clarifications, troll-like users easily capture unsuspecting users’ attention and manage to prolong futile conversations interminably. Through the analysis, the paper connects trolling-like asymmetric response strategies with concrete data and addresses the implications of this nonconformist behavior for common grounding in social-media venues.

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Section: Conversation Analysismentioning

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Disruptive online communication: How asymmetric trolling-like response strategies steer conversation off the track

Paakki

Vepsäläinen

Salovaara

2021

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“…The use of (parts of) one's birth or legal name can be considered as a special kind of authentication practice that emphasizes the offline self (see Jacobson 1996, Lindholm 2013, so that the users thus identify themselves as persons with rights and obligations and in order to express closeness. The information on strategies employed when choosing usernames provided by the informants of our survey of students based in the UK show that it is a multi-layered and multi-dimensional decision-making process.…”

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Creating a Self-Image

Kersten

Lotze²

2020

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In this article, we build on research arguing that linguistic self-representation on social media can be viewed as a form of face-work and that the strategies employed by users are influenced by both a desire to connect with others and a need to preserve privacy. Drawing on our own analyses of usernames as well as that of others which were conducted as part of a large-scale project investigating usernames in 14 languages (Schlobinski/T. Siever 2018a), we argue that these conflicting goals of wanting to be recognised as an authentic member of an in-group while retaining a degree of anonymity are also observable in the choice of username. Online self-naming can thus be viewed as a key practice in the debate of face-work on social media platforms, because names and naming strategies can be studied more readily than broader and more complex aspects, such as stylistic variation or text-image interdependence, while at the same time forming part of these.

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“…Choosing a creative username may make it easier for interactants to assume a certain "persona" within a virtual game (Hagström 2012) but may also ensure anonymity through deliberate masking (Gatson 2011). Using the official offline name as a username may signal frame-shifting from an online to an offline setting (Jacobson 1996), but may also be perceived as boring (Hämäläinen 2013;Lindholm 2013). Studies of teenagers' use of chatroom usernames point to the particular importance of names displaying a "cool" image (Gatson 2011;Subrahmanyam, Greenfield, and Tynes 2004;Tingstad 2003).…”

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Naming, Identity, and Social Positioning in Teenagers’ Everyday Mobile Phone Interaction

Aldrin

2019

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This article analyzes how a small group of Swedish teenagers handle onomastic choices of self- and other-referencing as part of their everyday mobile phone interaction. It further discusses how the teenagers explained their views regarding online names during interviews. The data are analyzed qualitatively using theories of identity and social positioning. Results show considerable differences between onomastic strategies used for self- and other-referencing. Self-referencing names were often practical, coherent, and authentic to the offline self, while other-referencing names were more flexible, creative, and socially positioned. However, the teenagers also displayed varying individual onomastic strategies and different folk-onomastic views on the function of usernames.

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18. The maxims of online nicknames

Cited by 9 publications

References 14 publications

Disruptive online communication: How asymmetric trolling-like response strategies steer conversation off the track

Disruptive online communication: How asymmetric trolling-like response strategies steer conversation off the track

Creating a Self-Image

Naming, Identity, and Social Positioning in Teenagers’ Everyday Mobile Phone Interaction

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