[Air-L] Use of @ as convention for blog/forum threading

[Alex Halavais]

Hello, all,

One of my students is looking at the diffusion of the "@" sign as a
convention for threading conversations in blogs. She's done a
preliminary scan of the literature, and hasn't found much that
addresses this specifically. Any suggestions for work that addresses
the question of the evolution of meta-discourse for conversation
control in contexts (mailing lists, IRC, IM, forums, blog comments)
that often do not have built-in threading?

Thanks!

Alex


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