"Hmmm...where's that smoke coming from?" Writing, play and performance on internet relay chat

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1997, Pages

  Danet, Brenda ^a,b   Ruedenberg Wright, Lucia ^c,d   Rosenbaum Tamari, Yehudit ^a,e  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Smithsonian Institution   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Research Department   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ONLINE CONFERENCING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TECHNICAL WRITING;

CARNIVAL TIME; DIGITAL WRITING; INTERNET RELAY CHAT (IRC); JUXTAPOSITION;

INTERNET;

EID: 0007277112     PISSN: 10836101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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