LANGUAGE STYLES USED BY MALE AND FEMALE BLOGGERS IN THE BLOGOSPHERE

Interaction will not occur properly if someone does not speak with the right style.  In this study, the ways of bloggers comment the blog perhaps can be investigated from the characteristics of language styles to show casualty, intimacy, consultatively, deliberatively and oratorical. In addition, the characteristic of their language style perhaps show some phenomenon according to their sexual identity. This research is intended to answer: What language styles are used by male and female bloggers to express their thoughts on ontd_political.livejournal.com? The objective of the study is to get the deep description about the problem of the study which is defining male and female bloggers in using their language style on ontd_political.livejournal.com. Moreover, the study will find the dominant style that occur in the blog . The writer finds that male and female bloggers in the blogosphere use three kinds of language styles, which are; consultative, casual and intimate.  According to the result, casual style that dominates among others is more influenced by informal situation in the blog. The researcher concludes that setting and sexes are such factors that influence the language style that been used by bloggers to express their opinion in ontd_political.livejournal.com. In addition to their writing form, the researcher assumes that many bloggers use the typical of spoken language to write their comment.  They write by using the typical of spoken form language which has no formality and preplanning. Moreover, some of them use inappropriate words to be shown in written form. Therefore, the researcher concludes that the comments in the ontd_political.livejournal.com are not definitely as written form according to the language variety perspective. Key Words: Language Style, Male and Female and Blogospher

Effects of “emotional text” on Online Customer Service Chat

With the increasing popularity of online shopping, interests in online customer service chat used on e-commerce websites has grown significantly. As one type of computer-mediated communication (CMC), online customer service chat is mainly text-based communication. While CMC may not allow us to hone in on a facial expression or hand gesture, there are subtle cues to perception of character traits embedded within our text communications. This study examined the effects of “emotional text” (defined as use of emoticons, capitalization, exclamation points, and “lol”) on perceptions of service agents’ socialibility and reliability. Results demonstrated that emotional text does have an impact on customers’ perceptions of service agents and generally in a positive direction. Service agents who use emotional text during an online service encounter were perceived to be more social. However, customers’ did not report any differences in terms of perception of reliability. Further, emotional response was demonstrated to be a significant mediator that impacts the relationship between emotional text and perception of character traits

Nicknames of English-Speaking Adolescent Users of Social Networks (on the Example of Twitter)

The features of the self-nomination of English-speaking adolescents in Internet communication - in a social network such as Twitter microblogging are discussed in the article. The focus of the article is the anthroponymic units of Internet communication - nicknames belonging to Internet users of the age group of 12-17 years. The relevance of the study is determined by the need to fill up research gaps in socio-, psycho- and ontolinguistics, as well as the unflagging attention of philologists to the anthropocentric aspects of Internet communication. The novelty lies in an integrated approach to the consideration of the features, methods and means of naming teenagers on Twitter. The nominative potential of nicknames is analyzed. In accordance with the nature of the constitutive token, self-nomination groups of autonomous, pseudonymous, and transitional types are distinguished. Conclusions are drawn about the characteristics of the anonymity of teenage names on Twitter (the degree of anonymity and its expressiveness). The authors also dwell on the structural aspect of virtual individual names, identifying the most productive models of property creation in virtual space. The results of a graphical analysis of the research material are presented, accompanied by a quantitative characteristic of paraverbal means. The analysis has established a correlation between the psychological new formations of adolescents and the characteristics of their nicknames on Twitter. It is shown that the inconsistency and originality of the considered stage of the ontogenetic development of users is projected onto their self-nomination

Weavers & Warriors? Gender and Online Identity in 1997 and 2007 V1.0

In 1997 the Internet was seen by many as a tool for radical reinterpretation of physicality and gender. Cybertheorists predicted we would leave our bodies behind and interact online as disembodied minds, and that the technology would reshape the way we saw ourselves. However, physicality has proved to be an inextricable part of all our interactions. Changing Internet technology has allowed Net users to find a myriad ways to perform and express their gender online. In this paper I consider attitudes to gender on the Net in 1997, when the main concerns were the imbalance between men and women online and whether it was possible or desirable to bring the body into online interactions. In much of the discourse surrounding gender online, a simple binary was assumed to exist. I go on to consider the extent to which those attitudes have changed today. Through my own experience of setting up a women’s community on Livejournal, and my observations of a men’s community set up in response, I conclude that though traditional attitudes to gender have largely translated to the Net and the binary is still the default view, some shifts have occurred. For example, between 1997 and today there seems to have been a fundamental change in perceptions of women’s attitudes to adversarial debate, and an increase in awareness of genders beyond the binary. In addition, experience and preliminary investigation lead me toward a hypothesis that today’s female-identified Net users are engaged in more conscious and active exploration and performance of their gender online than male-identified users are

Men eat on Mars, Women on Venus? An Empirical Study of Food-Images

Culinary preferences contribute significantly to the sense of ourself [2]. While gender, race, sexuality and ethnicity describe our "major identity", preferences in music, style and food define our "minor identity". However, we find that only certain parts of them can be explained by gender-specific differences in the food consumption behavior, while other parts can be better explained by the media portrayal of food consumption

Out Online: The Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth on the Internet

This report examines the online experiences of LGBT students in 6-12th grade. LGBT youth experience nearly three times as much bullying and harassment online as non-LGBT youth, but also find greater peer support, access to health information and opportunities to be civically engaged