Changing Conventions of Computer-Mediated Communication

Przemysław Terejko

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In the article, the author presents the results of the study of netiquette, that is, a multi-faceted collection of rules and conventions governing computer-mediated communication. The aim of the study was to establish whether these conventions have changed with the advent of new modes of online interaction. The research was based on the categories proposed by Michel Marcoccia (1998), against which some of the early formulations of netiquette and their modern versions were compared. Such comparison allowed the author to identify the areas of change as well as draw some conclusions regarding their origins and directions.


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convention; netiquette; computer-mediated communication; functionalism

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/ah.2015.6.53
Date of publication: 2016-06-22 08:40:07
Date of submission: 2016-06-14 09:23:09


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