{"title":"Rhyme and punishment: the creation and enforcement of conventions in an on-line participatory limerick genre","authors":"T. Erickson","doi":"10.1109/HICSS.1999.772647","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Computers don't support conversation well, particularly asynchronous conversations among groups. Such conversations often lack coherence, tending towards drift, dissolution or chaos. The object of this study-a conversation that repeatedly succeeds in producing coherent results-is a counterexample. Two features seem important: it is structured by the conventions of a well-known genre, and as it proceeds it develops new conventions. This paper analyzes the emergence and enforcement of the conversation's conventions over the course of a year, and examines the interplay between the conventions and the user interface, concluding with suggestions on how to design systems which support more coherent conversation.","PeriodicalId":116821,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences. 1999. HICSS-32. Abstracts and CD-ROM of Full Papers","volume":"15 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1999-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"47","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences. 1999. HICSS-32. Abstracts and CD-ROM of Full Papers","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.1999.772647","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Computers don't support conversation well, particularly asynchronous conversations among groups. Such conversations often lack coherence, tending towards drift, dissolution or chaos. The object of this study-a conversation that repeatedly succeeds in producing coherent results-is a counterexample. Two features seem important: it is structured by the conventions of a well-known genre, and as it proceeds it develops new conventions. This paper analyzes the emergence and enforcement of the conversation's conventions over the course of a year, and examines the interplay between the conventions and the user interface, concluding with suggestions on how to design systems which support more coherent conversation.
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