My thesis was Talk, Type, and Text: Conversation on the Internet. I treated interactive dialogues that appear on-line, in webpages, newsgroups, e-mail and IRC, but the focus of my paper is on IRC, as it is a medium which is incredibly diverse and unique among Internet conversations, and has recieved almost no academic attention whatsoever.
Online are available my Abstract and the Preface. The rest is available in PDF. Contact me for information.
For historic reasons (mainly my own amusement) you can click here and pop up a window of my progress reports while writing it.
Action Verbs as Illocutionary Verbs on the Internet treats the weird functions of action verbs within an online context from a philosophy of language viewpoint.
I've written some content for JaLUG, such as Making the Most of Mozilla and Advanced Ad-Killing
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