Feature of Gender in Computer-Mediated Communication
My study aims to see what the communication between women and men in online chat room will be like; whether it will remain the same as that of the face-to-face interaction; whether the new way of communication under the anonymity provided by computer-medi
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Feature of Gender in Computer-Mediated Communication Xiaoyi Zheng
Abstract My study aims to see what the communication between women and men in online chat room will be like; whether it will remain the same as that of the face-to-face interaction; whether the new way of communication under the anonymity provided by computer-mediated communication (CMC) will neutralize distinctions of gender and whether the Internet really provides escape from gender differences. By examining the messages posted by women and men when chatting online, the language features of women and men under investigation will be analyzed. Keywords Feature of gender
Computer mediated Communication
12.1 Introduction Nowadays, computer-mediated communication (CMC) is rapidly turning our world into a global village. We are able to talk to each other in online chat rooms, mediated by nothing but computers. And we are increasingly seeing the benefit of the Internet which empowers women, who are considered less powerful in the traditional patterns of male dominated communication, not only participate in the CMC ‘‘equally’’ but also find community to pursue their own interests. Thus, the Internet is said to eradicate gender prejudice in communication, leading to greater gender equality, and gender becomes a lesser issue than it has been in previous times [1].
X. Zheng (&) Tourism College of Zhejiang, 310000 HangZhou, China e-mail: [email protected]
Y. Yang and M. Ma (eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Green Communications and Networks 2012 (GCN 2012): Volume 1, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 223, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-35419-9_12 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
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And according to previous researches on gender and language, women and men do talk differently, adopting different styles in face-to-face communication due to the different cultural myths they have absorbed [2]. My study aims to see what the communication between women and men in online chat room will be like; whether it will remain the same as that of the faceto-face interaction; whether the new way of communication under the anonymity provided by CMC will neutralize distinctions of gender and whether the Internet really provides escape from gender differences. By examining the messages posted by women and men when chatting online, the language features of women and men under investigation will be analyzed [3].
12.2 Background Early studies about CMC suggested that cyberspace was a democratic utopian where opportunities are equal for each gender [4]. As Danet (1998) claims that CMC makes the gender of online communication invisible thus allows women and men to participate equally in contrast with traditional communications patterns of male dominance observed in face-to-face conversations [5]. To investigate the impact that the Internet is making on language, in his 2001 book Language and the Internet, Crystal [6] discusses how the language used in various Internet communities has developed in separate chapters: on the lan
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