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The Online Student: Lurking, Chatting, Flaming and Joking

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  • Kate Orton-Johnson

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This paper looks at the use of online conference interaction as a part of a web-based distance-learning course. There has been much debate surrounding the potential of educational technology, particularly online conference interaction, to support teaching and learning yet little attention has been paid to student experiences and understandings of the online learning environment. Drawing on data from auto-ethnographic fieldwork the paper identifies 5 categories of participation in asynchronous online conferences: lurker participation, member participation, expert/experienced participation, flamer participation and joker participation. Through an exploration of these forms of participation the paper attempts to understand and illustrate the complexities and contradictions of situating conference interaction alongside the demands of study. The analysis highlights the role of online conferencing as a space for ‘interaction work’ distinct and separated from existing repertoires of formal study. The paper concludes by suggesting that pedagogically successful use of conferences as part of distance learning needs to understand the challenges and demands of remediating existing practices.

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  • Kate Orton-Johnson, 2008. "The Online Student: Lurking, Chatting, Flaming and Joking," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 12(6), pages 21-31, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:12:y:2008:i:6:p:21-31
    DOI: 10.5153/sro.1615
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    1. Joseph M. Kayany, 1998. "Contexts of uninhibited online behavior: Flaming in social newsgroups on usenet," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 49(12), pages 1135-1141.
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