Innovations and Motivations in Online Chat

Abstract

This chapter examines the defining linguistic innovations and social motivations for one of the most popular modes of computer mediated communication: the online chat. Due to its nature of being largely synchronous, anonymous, and mainly text-based, online chat offers a social interactional environment where people can experience the feeling of making new friends or acquaintances, psychologically experiment with different identities, and explore new relationships without the shyness that face-to-face interaction can bring. The largely informal and recreational nature of online chat, together with the time constraints that force communicators to come up with interesting ways to sustain efficient communication, turns online chat into a frontier of linguistic innovation. In turn, this leads to a deeper understanding of the nature of online communities.

Effect of Transformational Leadership on the Creativity of Employees: An Empirical Investigation

“…Many definitions have been proposed for creativity; some consider creativity and innovation equivalent to adaptation and change. Some others consider creativity and innovation as something beyond change and adaptation [11,12]. Creativity refers to new valuable achievements based on an idea which exists in all people more or less [13].…”