Bechar-Israeli, Haya, 1995

FROM TO : NICKNAMES, PLAY, AND IDENTITY ON INTERNET RELAY CHAT

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Computer-mediated communication (CMC) has created new opportunities for real-time "chatting" among geographically dispersed individuals sitting at their computer keyboards. People engage in "written" conversation in the new linguistic genre, which combines characteristics of both written and oral language. They type their messages, and the text of these messages appears on the screens of their interlocutors, preceded by the "speaker's" nickname.