Language

• Baron (1984) describes CMC as a force in language culture.
• Ferrara, Brunner, and Whittemore (1991) describes interactive written discourse (IWD, the written language occurring in simultaneous terminal-to-terminal typed dialogues.)
• Finnegan (1988) describes how literacy and orality are affected by communication technology.
• Lakoff (1982) Oral is becoming more valued than literacy, writing imitates oral.
• Murray (1991) describes the composing process for computer conversation.
• Ochs (1989) explores language use and culture.
• Ong (1977) Technology changed culture and thought.
• Ong (1982) Thought and expressed changed in the shift from orality to literacy.
• Shank (1993) argues network communication is not oral or written but semiotic.
• December (1993a) compares net discourse in USENET newsgroup with characteristics of orality as defined by Walter J. Ong. Main point: The discourse on the Internet brings back pre-literate characteristics; it is a tertiary form of orality (the first two being, pre-literature culture and widespread radio and tv broadcasting).
• Shaver (1990) describes measures of reliability and validity of attitude measures of writing with a computer.
• Spitzer (1986) describes writing style in computer conferences.
• Tannen (1982) Oral/literate continuum = focus: involvement & context v. content.
• Thompson (1988) describes how interactive networking can be used for speech, writing, and composition.
• Black, Levin, Mehan, and Quinn (1983) describes real and non-real time discourse.
• December (1994) discusses and analyzes the strategies communicators can use to exchange information on global computer networks. Main point: The communicator's task in creating and structuring information has always included considerations of purpose and audience. In communicating over networks, however, the communicator's task includes considerations of the nature of the medium_distribution, access, information-sharing practices, and social context.