TALK: Teaching Tech Talk: How Online Participants Negotiate Cultural Parameters through Everyday Conversation
Patricia Lange (School of Cinematic Arts, USC)
Friday, April 18 / 1:30 PM
Phelps 2536
Informal, everyday conversations about technology are fruitful sites for analyzing how interlocutors negotiate acceptable participation and status in online groups. For example, when someone asks an experienced member of a group a technical question, the respondent may relate information not only about the overt content of the question, but also provide advice about what constitutes acceptable technical questions. This talk will examine different types of interaction and analyzes how participants use ordinary conversation about technology to negotiate what constitutes acceptable behavior in terms of: 1) how to ask questions; 2) how to express emotion; and 3) how to argue appropriately in the online, technically-oriented communities in which they
participate.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Language, Interaction and Social Organization RFG.
