Online discourse in a teen chatroom: New codes and new modes of coherence in a visual medium

Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 713-738

  Greenfield, Patricia Marks ^a   Subrahmanyam, Kaveri ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Chat; Chatroom code; Coherence; Conversation; Discourse; Internet; Visual cues; Visual medium; Writing; Written discourse

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; E-MAIL; HUMAN; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE ABILITY; ONLINE ANALYSIS; ONLINE SYSTEM; REGISTER; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TELEPHONE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0344898991     PISSN: 01933973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.appdev.2003.09.005     Document Type: Article

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