If "Reality Is the Best Metaphor," It Must Be Virtual

Waller, Marguerite

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“…While computer‐mediated communities appear to be moving toward multimedia forms of communication (Soukup, 2000), these multimedia virtual communities remain highly understudied and require continued empirical investigation (Schroeder, 2002). Further, while scholars lament the shift toward “virtual” communication (Mejas, 2001), these multimedia contexts offer radically different ways for people to communicate in groups and form (and perform) unique kinds of culture and community (Waller, 1997). Because multimedia interaction may revolutionize the mediated communication process, preliminary research is essential.…”

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Multimedia Performance in a Computer-Mediated Community: Communication as a Virtual Drama

Soukup

2006

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

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In this study, I explored the complex multimedia performances of an interactive computer‐mediated community. Through the frameworks of Erving Goffman's dramaturgical perspective and Dell Hyme's ethnography of communication, I explored the patterns of multimedia performance of a virtual community called the Palace. The findings demonstrate how virtual architecture, visual context, virtual space/proxemics, and avatars can be used in social interaction in communities on the World Wide Web. More importantly, the analysis represents the multimedia communicative processes that serve to foster and sustain virtual communities. These communication patterns of the multimedia chat community represent a form of virtual dramatic performance in contemporary communication. Based upon the findings, conclusions, implications, and future directions for scholarship are explored in detail.

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Multimedia Performance in a Computer-Mediated Community: Communication as a Virtual Drama

Soukup

2006

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

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Building a Theory of Multi-Media CMC

Soukup

2000

New Media & Society

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In order to provide directions for future computer-mediated communication (CMC) scholarship, in this article, I analyze, critique and integrate contemporary CMC theory and research. Particularly, based upon an analysis of recent developments in multi-media software and the world wide web, I explore the theoretical implications of increased audio, video and three-dimensionality in cyberspace. In general, in this article, I argue that CMC theory and research has been limited by the `textual bias' of previous scholars. CMC researchers and theorists must begin to reconstruct the communicative, rhetorical and epistemological features of multi-media CMC in order to describe and explain communication in cyberspace. Through an integrated, inter-disciplinary program of multi-methodological empirical research, scholars can build theory that better accounts for multi-media CMC.

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Avatar, Cyborg, Icevorg: Simulacra's Scion

Alvarez

2015

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If "Reality Is the Best Metaphor," It Must Be Virtual

Cited by 4 publications

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Multimedia Performance in a Computer-Mediated Community: Communication as a Virtual Drama

Multimedia Performance in a Computer-Mediated Community: Communication as a Virtual Drama

Building a Theory of Multi-Media CMC

Avatar, Cyborg, Icevorg: Simulacra's Scion

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