http://tags.library.upenn.edu/tag/politeness+internet PennTags Feed http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/1219 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/1219 <p>PDF/text available</p><p>In this article, Bromseth discusses his research into 2 Norwegian email lists: Radical Forum (a socialist/Marxist forum) and The Doctor's List (a forum for general practitioners) in which the membership was divided approximately 85% men and 15% women.&nbsp; While the political group tended towards confrontational discussion and raw polemic, the medical forum was characterized by face-saving strategies and an emphasis on &quot;brotherhood&quot;.&nbsp; Bromseth argues that the latter behavior should not be seen as &quot;feminization&quot; of male speech, but rather as an example of positive and definitively male social practices in&nbsp;modern (2001)&nbsp;Norway.&nbsp; To him, gender is constantly being constructed in relation to other social phenomena and contexts must always be examined independently to show such construction without stereotyping behavior.&nbsp; This argument runs in counter to the generally accepted thoughts towards men's speech and should definitely be considered as a reminder to readers to not make generalized assumptions based upon previous theories, but instead, to take into account mitigating cultural and social factors when analyzing any speech community.</p> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/1392 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/1392 This text contains 22 essays, any number of&nbsp;which would be relevant to our class.&nbsp; For my purposes, Chapter 19 on &quot;Charting the Codes of Cyberspace: the Rhetoric of Electronic Mail&quot; by Judith Yaross Lee&nbsp; is important because it seeks to codify email as a hybrid of&nbsp;oral speech and traditional writing. Philip Thompsen continues to discuss online communication strategies in Chapter 20: &quot;What's Fueling the Flames in Cyberspace: A Social Influence Model&quot;.&nbsp; Thompsen attempts to redefine flaming on the internet and propose a social-influence model which incorporates the flaming behavior and the negotiation of what that behavior means to the community. While he does not address gender per se, he does seek to define flaming behavior and explain its consequences to group members over long term online experience.