Backchannel persistence and collaborative meaning-making

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSIGDOC'09 - Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication
Pages297-303
Number of pages7
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Event27th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC'09 - Bloomington, IN, United States
Duration: Oct 5 2009Oct 7 2009

Publication series

NameSIGDOC'09 - Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

Conference

Conference27th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC'09
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBloomington, IN
Period10/5/0910/7/09

Keywords

  • Backchannel
  • Microblogging
  • Mobilization
  • Persistence
  • Recursion
  • Twitter

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Software

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