Dialogue on the Internet: Language, Civic Identity, and Computer-Mediated Communication

by Richard Holt

Richard Holt draws on his extensive experience in discourse analysis and Web design to present a picture of the Internet as a potentially powerful tool of civic discourse in the third millennium. Beginning with background on two of the Internet's most prevalent communication forms, email discussion messages and Web pages/sites, the book introduces the concepts of monologism and dialogism. Holt advocates a method of discursive analysis called dual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567506798
• ISBN13: 9781567506792
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"