Hanging by a thread: Topic development and death in an online discussion of breaking news
Hanging by a thread: Topic development and death in an online discussion of breaking news
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命悬一线：突发新闻在线讨论中的话题发展与消亡
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2010
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Jacqueline Lambiase
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Jacqueline Lambiase
这个项目分析了一个在线讨论组生成的消息，以及引导响应和提示参与者引入新的讨论主题的对话主题。这个项目的数据是一个无主持的公共电子讨论组OKLABOMB的300多个帖子，该讨论组是在1995年4月19日俄克拉荷马州市一座联邦大楼爆炸案发生后的第二天成立的。之所以被选中进行分析，是因为它最初是一个提供最新信息的动态论坛，但在几天之内，这个列表就从最初的目的退化成了一个由少数参与者主导的论坛，他们发表的是边缘相关的主题。民族志观察这些消息加上会话分析集中在主题的发展揭示了（往往是敌对的）策略，占主导地位的参与者带来的话题转移。结果提供了一个语言测量的方式，强大的和/或持久的语言用户控制在线对话和挑战的概念，计算机为媒介的话语是民主的（CP。Herring，1993）。更一般地说，研究结果揭示了会话主题在多参与者在线环境中是如何活跃和消亡的。
This project analyzes messages generated for an online discussion group and the topics of conversation that guide responses and prompt participants to introduce new threads for discussion. Data for this project are more than 300 postings to an unmoderated public electronic discussion group, OKLABOMB, established one day after the April 19, 1995, bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City. Selected for analysis because it started as a dynamic forum for up-to-minute information, this list within a few days had degenerated away from its original purpose into a forum dominated by a handful of participants posting on marginally-related topics. Ethnographic observation of these messages coupled with conversation analysis focused on topic development revealed (often hostile) strategies used by dominant participants to bring about topic shifts. The results provide one linguistic measure of the ways in which powerful and/or persistent language users control conversation online and challenge the notion that computer-mediated discourse is democratic (cp. Herring, 1993). More generally, the results shed light on how conversational topics come alive and die in a multi-participant online environment.