Conversation and Technology : From the Telephone to the Internet


Ian. Hutchby
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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Utgitt
Hoboken : : Wiley, , 2013.
Omfang
1 online resource (229 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; 1: Introduction: Technologies for Communication; 2: The Communicative Affordances of Technological Artefacts; 3: Communication as Computation?; 4: Talk-in-interaction; 5: The Telephone: Technology of Sociability; 6: Telephone Interaction and Social Identity; 7: Technological Mediation and Asymmetrical Interaction; 8: Computers, Humans and Conversation; 9: Virtual Conversation; 10: Conclusion: A Reversion to the Real?; Appendix: Transcription Conventions; Bibliography; Index. - We live in a world where social interaction is increasingly mediated by technological devices. In this book, Ian Hutchby explores the impact these technologies have on our attempts to communicate. Focusing on four examples - telephones, computerized expert systems at work, speech-based systems dealing with enquiries from the public, and multi-user spaces on the Internet - Hutchby asks: are we increasingly technologized conversationalists, or is technology increasingly conversationalized?Conversation and Technology draws on recent theory and empirical research in conversation analys
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ISBN
0-7456-2110-4(ib.). - 0-7456-2111-2(h.)

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