Chat Medium Research Articles

Kegiatan knowledge sharing pada literasi finansial di Komunitas Finansialku

The millennial generation is susceptible consumptive lifestyle. Finansialku Community help millennial generation to improve financial literacy through finance and investment management. The purpose this research to know how knowledge sharing activity in financial literacy at Finansialku Community. The research method was qualitative through case study approach. Based on research result, Finansialku Community have two of knowledge sharing consist of Teletalks and Ngobrolsore. Teletalks is knowledge sharing activity using text chat medium and Ngobrolsore is activity used voices, like Webinar and became a preference to members to learn by listening to knowledge. Knowledge sharing in the community through fourth stage, consist of socialization, externalization, combination, and internalization. Members in socialization stage interact to each other, and share knowledge and experience. Members in externalization stage articulated knowledge in explicit shape. Members have combined many knowledge that externalized in combination stage to create comprehensive and holistic the new knowledge. Members have applied combination knowledge in daily life that members can increase finance literacy. Finansialku Community succeed to increase financial literacy to members. Members of Finansialku Community can increase their skills and they have competence in finance management in the personal, family, and environment stage. Finansialku Community in knowledge sharing have been helping members to increase financial literacy through the best and effective finance management. Therefore, knowledge sharing activity in Finansialku Community is one solutions to increase finance literacy in public.

Adolescent bariatric surgery: a qualitative exploratory study of US patient perspectives.

Bariatric surgery is a safe and effective intervention to treat severe obesity and related comorbidities in adolescents. No qualitative studies have explored the perspectives of US adolescent weight-loss patients on their bariatric surgery motivations, decision-making or experiences. The purpose of this qualitative exploratory study was to explore the perspectives of adolescent patients seeking bariatric surgery while enrolled in a medical weight management programme. Eligible participants 13-21 years old were recruited through a weight management programme at a tertiary care children's hospital in the US Midwest. Interviews were conducted remotely using a video chat medium. An initial 60-min semi-structured interview was conducted with seven participants who were 16-21 years old: one deciding on bariatric surgery, one pre-operative and five post-operative. A brief follow-up interview was conducted 1 month later with four participants. Interviews were transcribed and coded using Atlas.ti software. Three broad themes emerged from participants' reflections: the long journey to surgery, time scarcity and be ready for change. The decision to pursue bariatric surgery takes place after struggling with obesity and failed weight-loss attempts since early childhood. Post-operative participants described bariatric surgery as life-changing, but determining when to schedule surgery is a challenge for adolescents.

When Two Basic Principles Clash: About the Validity of Written Chat Language as a Research Tool for Spoken Language Variation. Flemish Chatspeak as a Test Case

Written chatspeak is said to be marked by two basic principles: (1) write like you speak and (2) write as fast as possible. As for Flemish chat language, the first principle seems to result in a multilayered mixed code, in which dialectical, substandard Flemish and standard Dutch features interact in an eclectic way. In addition, most of the chatters insert English words in their chat discourse as well. This intensive code mixing is assumed to be – at least to a considerable extent – a reflection of the daily speech of these Flemish chatters. But what about the validity of this assumption? Can chatspeak function as an alternative dataset for the study of (spoken) language variation and change and thus as a research tool for e.g. the study of Flemish teenage talk and the representation of non-standard speech in spoken interaction? The dependent variables for the present test case are two substandard Flemish (or ‘tussentaal’) features that urge the chatters to violate the second principle, since their use implies an extension of the utterance. The central question is whether the second principle prevents the use of these substandard forms in Flemish chatspeak. In other words, do the analyses undermine the validity of using written chat corpora as a graduator for speech variation? We finish with a small excursion on the use of English by the Flemish chatters: can we separate English insertions that are triggered by the chat medium from English insertions that are not?

Culturally Afforded Tensions in the Second Life Metaverse

This study investigated the culturally contingent tensions afforded by the implementation of Second Life in transatlantic communications among 13 college-level students at a Southwestern academic institution in the United States and their instructor and an assistant professor and his graduate student at a Greek-speaking academic institution. The transatlantic transactions unfolded in IBM's virtual Green Data Center, where students and instructors engaged in critical discussions on their local community, IBM, the European Union, and the United States' sustainability practices. By analyzing students and instructors' virtual exchanges, chat medium, and reflective comments, three categories of culturally enacted tensions were identified. These contradictions pertained to (a) emerging intercultural communication, (b) assigned collaborative activities, and (c) the use of the Second Life Viewer as a communication tool. The study demonstrated that contradictions can be contingent on institutional, broader cultural and historical constructs, Internet-mediated tools, and the different linguistic and cultural values and expectations related to relationship building and interactional dynamics. The study highlighted the importance of acknowledging such structural tensions as affordances for teaching and learning. Further, the study emphasized the need to take into account the institutional, pedagogical, instructional, and broader cultural realisms that impose constraints on teaching practices and participation in social virtualities.

Understanding the Antecedents and Consequences of Live Chat Use in Electronic Markets

Online shopping has progressed from having consumers passively browse through the webpages of online stores to having them proactively engage in communication dialogues with the sellers themselves via live chat. Modern-day consumers can now directly contact online sellers and inquire about the products they intend to purchase through the live chat medium available in the webpages of online stores, such as Taobao.com. In this study, the conceptual framework of motivation, opportunity, and ability was extended to understand the antecedents of using live chat and to lengthen such an understanding on one’s eventual intention to transact on the website from the trust-oriented perspective. A total of 222 online consumers of Taobao.com were surveyed, and their responses validated the proposed conceptual model and confirmed the research hypotheses. Results of the investigation indicated that perceived information asymmetry and fears of seller opportunism, encapsulated under motivation dimension, and perceived personal expertise, which manifests ability dimension, significantly influence the use of live chat by consumers. The results further demonstrated that live chat use positively affects the perceived interactivity of consumers, thereby increasing their intention to transact. The influence of live chat use on the perceived interactivity of consumers and its effect on one’s intention to transact online are negatively moderated by the trust of consumers in a seller. The findings contribute to our understanding communication services for e-commerce in general and to the realization of real-time communication technology in particular.

Successful approaches to teaching through chat

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to determine whether librarians at the University of Kansas are providing instruction through chat in order to develop best practices for training purposes.Design/methodology/approachThe authors analyzed a sample of chat transcripts using the “ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education” to determine whether librarians were utilizing opportunities for instruction in the chat medium. Using this analysis, they selected the best examples of instructional techniques.FindingsStudents were open to receiving instruction through chat. Librarians who were most successful in providing assistance to students demonstrated persistency and approachability in their interactions.Practical implicationsThe authors developed a list of top ten practices for instruction through chat which can be used for training purposes.Originality/valueLibrarians need to continue to develop instructional techniques to create more opportunities for teaching moments in chat. The paper raises awareness of the impact of librarians' demeanor in the online environment.

Exploring the affordances of online chat for learning

Text-based interaction is one of the frequently used modes of computer mediated communication connecting users via computer networks. Text chat has been and is still an important technology component of online distributed learning environments where students communicate synchronously amongst themselves and with other learning partners such as teachers and experts. Text chat provides several affordances that make it an effective medium for useful online interactions, despite its limitations and the advent of newer technologies like avatar or graphic chat, audio and video conferencing. In this paper, we explore the properties of online text chat, and discuss the limitations and problems of conversations supported by the chat medium. We discuss ways of making the conversations better, enabling more natural and coherent conversations, facilitating conversations with a learning nature, providing aggregate views of chat conversations, and providing chat participants with a social sense of the context or the dynamics of the conversation flow. We review work on technological innovations that support, analyse, and visualise chat conversations.

Online discourse in a teen chatroom: New codes and new modes of coherence in a visual medium

In this article, we describe how participants in an online teen chatroom adapt to the unique features of chat environments to achieve conversational coherence and create a new communicative register. Typically, online chat conversations have several topics being discussed simultaneously, and participants' contributions do not follow the turn-taking sequence found in face-to-face or telephone conversations. We propose that there are two basic requirements for coherence in a chat conversation—establishing who is participating in a particular conversation and establishing what constitutes a relevant response. Our analysis of an online chat transcript reveals that the visual nature of the chat medium allows participants to modify extant communication strategies and create new ones to fulfill these requirements. Formally, the chatroom code integrates features of oral and written discourse. Functionally, this code, in the context of a teen chatroom, enables participants to co-construct important features of discourse, such as participant identity and characteristics, and relevant utterances.

Information Sharing in Face-to-Face, Teleconferencing, and Electronic Chat Groups

Laboratory groups attempted to reach consensus on a simulated business problem. Members of 4-person groups received information on whether three proposed systems met each of IO desired criteria. Cast as a hidden profile problem, the information was distributed unevenly within the group. Groups communicated using one ofthreeformats:face-to-face, teleconference, or electronic chat. As predicted, cognitive workload was significantly higher andfewer correct decisions were obtained in the electronic chat condition versus the other twoformats. The electronic chat medium limited participants' ability to coordinate and verify information. Electronic chat should be combined with collaboration technology or groupware that facilitates information storage, organization, and processing.

Mutational spectrum of ICR-191 at the hprt locus in human lymphoblastoid cells.

Human TK6 lymphoblasts were treated with the acridine derivative ICR-191, and mutants at the hprt locus were isolated. Mutant hprt cDNA was reverse-transcribed from mRNA, amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and sequenced. Additions of single G:C base pairs (+1 frameshift mutations) in repetitive G:C sequences were found in 82% (32/39) of the mutants. Sixteen of the +1 frameshifts analyzed were located in a single sequence of six consecutive guanine bases in exon 3. The remaining +1 frameshifts occurred at six different GGG sequences (14 mutants) and a single GGGG sequence (2 mutants) in other hprt exons. The repetitive guanine sequences that underwent frameshift mutagenesis were located in both the transcribed and nontranscribed strands of hprt. No single base deletions (-1 frameshift mutations) were observed. Base substitutions were observed in 13% (5/39) of the clones analyzed and occurred at both G:C and A:T bases. Loss of exon 4 from the cDNA was also observed in 5% (2/39) of the mutants. Hprt mutants containing seven consecutive guanines (produced from a +1 frameshift in a GGGGGG sequence) were treated with ICR-191 and wild-type revertants selected in CHAT medium. Revertants were recovered at a frequency of approximately 10(-7) and contained the wild-type sequence (GGGGGG) in all clones analyzed. The observed frequency of ICR-191-induced-1 frameshift reversion in the GGGGGGG sequence was approximately 500-fold lower than the estimated frequency of +1 frameshifts observed in the wild-type GGGGGG sequence following the same ICR-191 treatment. These results suggest that ICR-191 produces predominantly +1 frameshift mutations at the hprt locus in human cells.