[Air-l] null hypothesis

[Ellis Godard]

But the term identifies a notable behavior: harsh critique of relative
unknowns, in a setting in which critique sometimes traverses greater social
distance than FTF communication typically permits, and yet in which critique
of intimates (sometimes even polite but engaged critique) is similarly
likely to be stigmatized - enough so that it even has a name, flaming. Using
that term doesn't assume media-specific differences; it encapsulates them.

-eg

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> [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Patricia Lange
> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 3:36 PM
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: Re: [Air-l] null hypothesis
> 
> 
> I cannot speak to differences or similarities between
> computers and other media, but I have argued taking
> care not to assume differences between CMC and
> face-to-face communication without empirical research.
> 
> For instance, I've argued that there are similarities
> between CMC and face-to-face talk in terms of
> arguments, and that by calling certain phenomena
> "flaming" scholars risk bracketing off computer-based
> phenomena as automatically different from what happens
> in face-to-face conversation, before empirical
> research is even begun.
> 
> So I argue for extinguishing the term flaming.
> 
> http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_9/lange/index.html
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Patricia Lange, Ph.D.
> Postdoctoral Fellow
> Annenberg Center for Communication
> 
> --- Sam Tilden <tildensam at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Most of the research in CMC seems to "assume"
> > differences between CMC and other media such as
> > telephone and letter-mail.
> >    
> >   I have been unable to find research that clearly
> > delineates this difference. Can anyone help me here.
> >    
> >   Sam
> > 
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