TY - GEN
T1 - Backchannel persistence and collaborative meaning-making
AU - McNely, Brian J.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Digital backchannel communication has become an increasingly important area of study for researchers and practitioners in several fields. From the emergence of wifi-enabled Internet Relay Chat (IRC) to contemporary instances of microblogging and SMS messaging, the role of digital backchannels in enabling collaborative affordances has received much recent attention. As backchannel communication continues to become more prevalent at professional conferences, in educational curricula, and in organizational settings, robust frameworks for understanding the role of backchannel environments in collaborative meaningmaking are needed. Drawing upon cultural-historical activity theory and actor network theory, this paper explores the development of backchannel persistence through microblogging platforms, and suggests an approach to studying the collaborative affordances of backchannel communication by focusing on the related concepts of mobilization and recursive writing collaboration.
AB - Digital backchannel communication has become an increasingly important area of study for researchers and practitioners in several fields. From the emergence of wifi-enabled Internet Relay Chat (IRC) to contemporary instances of microblogging and SMS messaging, the role of digital backchannels in enabling collaborative affordances has received much recent attention. As backchannel communication continues to become more prevalent at professional conferences, in educational curricula, and in organizational settings, robust frameworks for understanding the role of backchannel environments in collaborative meaningmaking are needed. Drawing upon cultural-historical activity theory and actor network theory, this paper explores the development of backchannel persistence through microblogging platforms, and suggests an approach to studying the collaborative affordances of backchannel communication by focusing on the related concepts of mobilization and recursive writing collaboration.
KW - Backchannel
KW - Microblogging
KW - Mobilization
KW - Persistence
KW - Recursion
KW - Twitter
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U2 - 10.1145/1621995.1622053
DO - 10.1145/1621995.1622053
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70450198651
SN - 9781605585598
T3 - SIGDOC'09 - Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication
SP - 297
EP - 303
BT - SIGDOC'09 - Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication
T2 - 27th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC'09
Y2 - 5 October 2009 through 7 October 2009
ER -