e-mail of self-presentation and identity in the online communities / "E-mail de apresentação pessoal e identidade nas comunidades online"

AUTOR(ES)

Paulo Rogerio de Souza

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2003

RESUMO

This study comprises the investigation of self-introduction e-mail messages sent by individuals who want to take part in two group-discussion lists created for the purpose of practicing English and addressing issues related to this particular language. By focusing on a many-to-many communication environment, this study aims at: (a) presenting the classic and contemporary concepts of community, and discussing which conceptual features allow the establishment of online communities; (b) confronting the interaction that emerges from face-to-face and electronic communication contexts; (c) analyzing whether data conveyed in self-introduction messages depict the engagement between the writer and the text produced as well as the role performed by the writer in the interaction; and (d) identifying which attributes of the personal and social data put across indicate the sender’s social identity. As for the theoretical foundations, the discussion about online communities includes a description of group-discussion lists both in terms of their internal organization and of the interactive behavior of their members. The analysis of the self-introduction e-mail messages is based on the notion of roles performed in interaction and on the concept of social identity construction (Goffman, 1959, 1963, 1967). The constitution of the users’ identity is inspected through the investigation of some specific lexical itens (I, me, we, and my), and their collocation. The outcomes of this investigation suggest that group-discussion lists may be conceived of a group of people who, by sharing common interest. Furthermore, the sender’s identity is grounded on the personal and social information provided by his/her self-introduction discourse which also reveals his/her social biography.

ASSUNTO(S)

discurso de apresentação individual identity interação eletrônica electronic interaction identidade individual online community mailing list discourse of presentation comunidade online lista eletrônica de discussão

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