[Air-L] Chat as a technically mediated social system

[Jesper Tække]

Happy New Year!

I have published a paper in the series of papers from the Centre for
Internet Research here in Denmark. You can go direct to it following this
link: http://www.cfi.au.dk/publikationer/cfi/011_taekke

Abstract
This paper provides an analysis of chat as a technical media for
communication.

This is realized using the strategy for analyzing that I have called
Media

Sociography (Tække 2006). The Media Sociography is a synthesis of Medium

Theory and the Systems Theoretical Sociology of Niklas Luhmann. The aim
of

the paper is to describe social reproduction under the constraints of
chat, but

also to show that Media Sociography can provide a unified theoretical
framework

for CMC-studies. The paper is also indented to provide an introduction to

the Media Sociography for an English speaking public.

Keywords: Chat, Medium Theory, Systems Theoretical Sociology, Computer

Mediated Communication, Media Sociography.

Best Regards

Jesper


cand.mag, ph.d. Jesper Taekke
Dep. for Information- and Media Studies
Aarhus University, Denmark
http://home16.inet.tele.dk/jesper_t/