Strangers in a Strange Land Interaction Management on Internet Relay Chat

Abstract

This article examines a set of interactions (logs) takenfrom t h e f a n of computer-mediated communicntion known as Internet Relay Chat (IRC). The authors were particularly concerned with the interaction management strategies adopted by the participants in the logs during the opening and closing phases of the interactions to d m l o p interpersonal relationships and communicate socioemotional content, as illustrated by their attempts to initiate and/or close interach'ons with others using the medium. The article compares these strategies and their structure with those proposedfor face-teface (FTF) interactions and proposes an explanatory framework for the interaction management of opening and closing phases on IRC. It is suggested that interaction management in these phases of IRC logs is similar to that in casual group FTF interaction in terms of the generalfinctions of the strategies used, but that the content, structure, and ordering of the strategies are subject to adaptation. n the past 25 years, a great deal of patterning, routine, and convention-based behavior has been found in social interaction,

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“…Conveyance requires members to provide responses to previous communicative exchanges (Herring, 1999). The responses to previous messages should be timely (Kalman and Rafaeli, 2005;Walther, 2006) as members become frustrated with longer than expected waiting times to their inquiries (Rintel and Pittam, 1997). In established social circles, expectations of quick response times are somewhat relaxed (Walther and Bunz, 2005).…”

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“…Tokiam įsitraukimo lygiui reikia sąveikos valdymo gebėjimų -pokalbio užmezgimo, pakreipimo ir epizodų loginės fiksacijos (Madlock 2008). Sąveikos valdymas apima sklandumą, žodinius gebėjimus ir socialinį prisitaikymą (Seanrintel, Pittam 2006). Konsultantai, turintys gebėjimų valdyti sąveiką, gali laisvai kalbėti, pasirinkti tinkamą bendravimo temų posūkių skaičių, pradėti ir baigti pokalbius bei valdyti temas.…”

22. Conversational coherence in small group chat

“…In ten Have's (2000) examination of chat openings, for example, he concluded that by and large chat participants used pre-existing communicative practices (based on oral communication), with only minimal changes, to engage partners in chat conversations. In an examination of Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Rintel and Pittam (1997) described a four-stage process whereby chat participants attempt to secure partners with whom to chat. After the server announced the presence of a new chat participant, the newly joined member sent either a blind/mass greeting (e.g., "hi everyone") or a generic statement or question to the chat channel.…”

“…In fact, these data do not contain any instances of the name+colon convention described by Werry (1996). When address terms are used in these meetings, it is usually in greetings (i.e., "hi evan" or "hi guys"), to express agreement, support for an idea, or thanks (i.e., "yeah I-fang", "rebeca that sounds pretty In contrast to large public chat rooms such as those studied by Panyametheekul and Herring (2003), Pittam (1997), andWerry (1996), the number and frequency of posts in these small group meetings are such that participants did not find it necessary to designate a turn recipient for most turns. Moreover, because chat does not allow participants to control the sequential order of posts in the chat window, they are not able to designate a specific, sequentially next speaker; the next possible speaker is anyone/everyone, and thus there is no need to do much in the way of formally allocating turns.…”