Text-based Computer-mediated Discourse Analysis: What Causes an Online Group to Become a Virtual Community?

Qiuna Li

International Journal of Social Science Studies, 2020, vol. 8, issue 4, 27-38

Abstract: The present study seeks to explore how computer-mediated discourse analysis can be useful for the study of online interaction, in particular, text-based multiparty interaction. The data are from the text-based chat group of high school English language teachers in China, which consists of more than one thousand members. Because of the fluid membership, reduced social accountability, and lack of shared geographical space, it seems that not every online group automatically becomes a “community”. Addressing this concern, and informed by the computer-mediated discourse analysis (CMDA) proposed by Herring, the researcher seeks to investigate the properties of virtual communities and to assess the extent to which they are realized by specific online groups.

Date: 2020
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