Abstract
Students are seated in rows with no direct eye contact possible. The classroom is quiet apart from the gentle clicking sounds of keyboards and occasional ripples of laughter, yet the students are animatedly communicating with one another. This seemingly paradoxical situation is possible thanks to technology: Students are chatting about texts they are reading over networked computers. (The word chat is used in this specific context and will henceforth be used without quotation marks.) Simulated talk shows have proven to be a productive and enjoyable way for students to ask questions of other characters and the author in a tradi-
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