Online Talk Research Articles

Interthinking in asynchronous online talk: A study of Hong Kong English as a second language learners

Engaging in productive forms of classroom talk has been shown to positively impact students’ thinking and language exposure. To maximize the effects of classroom talk on students who learn English as a second language (ESL) and to create more learning opportunities by leveraging the affordances of dialogic teaching in enabling interthinking, this study set out to explore the influence of asynchronous online talk on students’ thinking through a micro-blogging tool, Padlet. Twenty-five students from a local secondary school were recruited. They were asked to post their views on current news articles and conduct dialogues with one another through the commenting function. After the discussion, the students were invited to self-evaluate the process of the discussion. Five students were also invited to participate in semi-structured interviews. Results indicated that the asynchronous online talk had the potential to broaden and deepen students’ thinking through the creation and maintenance of their intermental development zone (IDZ). The talk also facilitated the internalization of co-constructed ideas for individual production. Drawing from these findings, it is recommended that the conceptualization of interthinking could capitalize on students’ self-evaluation and that the evaluative stage could be structured in interactive tasks in future instructional practices.

Indicating engagement in online workplace meetings

Abstract Amid COVID-19 and the so-called “digital pivot”, online virtual communication is at the heart of our professional and private lives. As we move into a post-COVID context, the affordances of the digital turn have shown that we can operate professionally online but there is a need for better understanding of communication in the online workplace. This paper contributes to our understanding of the dynamics of indicators of engagement in multi-party communication online, as evidenced by a corpus-based multi-modal study. It showcases the importance of building naturally-occurring spoken corpora that go beyond written transcription and include annotation of non-verbal behaviour. The work focuses on the incidence, frequency, position, and function of spoken and head nod backchannels, exploring coordination and co-occurrence of these features in online talk. Findings point to a changing profile of how engagement is displayed in online workplace meetings, which appears to be linked to the functionality of platforms.

Suggestions from Experience and AI Tools to Teach Evidence Based Practice to Nurses

Hospital librarians receive invites to teach thinking and searching in an evidence-based way and critical appraisal of the literature to nurses. With these invitations, the hospital librarians play a central role in establishing an evidence-based culture in the hospital and contribute to the nursing staff feeling competent and confident in fulfilling evidence-based competencies. This author just prepared a 17-minute online talk as part of an international nursing webinar on “searching nursing literature in an evidence-based way.” Using this experience, remembering other teaching and presentation experiences, and some “help” from AI tools, this experienced hospital librarian suggests decision points for colleagues to create a meaningful, practical information session for nurses and introduce to some AI tools along the way.

Seeking help for mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal analysis of adults' experiences with digital technologies and services.

The COVID-19 pandemic brought about dramatic changes in how patients access healthcare from its outset. Lockdown restrictions and remote working led to a proliferation of digital technologies and services, which also impacted mental health provisions. Against the backdrop of new and changing support services, along with an unprecedented emphasis on mental health, relatively little is known about how adults sought out and received support for their mental health during this period. With a sample of 27,574 adults assessed longitudinally online over 12 months of the pandemic in the UK, we analysed reports of help-seeking for mental health, as well as sources of treatment or support and the perceived helpfulness of treatments received. We observed that the proportions of participants who reported seeking help remained relatively consistent throughout the 12-month period (ranging from 12.6% to 17.0%). Online talking therapies were among the most frequently sought sources (15.3%), whereas online self-guided treatments were among the least frequently sought sources (5%). Telephone lines, both NHS and non-governmental, had marked treatment 'gaps'. These treatment gaps, where individuals sought treatment but did not receive it, were especially evident for men and older adults. Our findings underscore online talking therapies as being a widely-sought and helpful source of mental health support. This is important given the current global need for accessible treatment options.

Menata Diskusi Ruang Publik Online sebagai Sarana Penyebaran Konten Inspiratif Edukatif

The Youtube channel Bincang Online Inspiratif (BIONS) Series presents educational content as an online public discussion space for enthusiasts. This study discusses the strategy of the BIONS Youtube account in disseminating these inspirational contents. The theory used is Peter Pringle's program strategy management to create and improve program quality and broadcast strategies to produce optimal impact. The research approach is qualitative with a case study method. The research findings are that online talk shows are planned through creative strategies starting from pre-production, production, and post-production to achieve broadcast success. The pre-production stage is an area to determine the theme, sources, and shooting layout before stepping into the production stage using zoom and YouTube live streaming. The next step is post-production, which is the core of dissemination, including editing, evaluation and marketing publications. To get viewers and account subscribers, it is done by distributing flyers on Instagram, WA groups, and various other supporting communication facilities, as well as making luckydraw as an effort to attract new viewers and maintain audience loyalty.

Self-disclosures in online crisis counselling: levelling asymmetries while maintaining client-focus

ABSTRACT While self-disclosures are often cautioned against in social work practice, research on crisis helplines has shown that self-disclosures can be connected to positive outcomes. Based on conversation analysis of 38 online chats, drawn from a larger corpus of crisis helpline interactions, the current paper unpacks the details of how trained volunteer counsellors use self-disclosures to support work with clients. The findings demonstrate how vague and general self-disclosures maintain a focus on the client and offer clients opportunities rather than requirements to learn. In online talk about suicide, self-disclosures are beneficial because they provide a way to display investment and understanding, which may be more difficult without verbal resources. On the other hand, self-disclosures often require clients to wait for counsellors to type in a time-sensitive situation. Showing this, the study contributes knowledge on interactional resources in online communication, in particular the work whereby counsellors and clients manage asymmetries connected to who knows, who can share, and who decides about courses of actions.

You’re so mean but I like it – Metapragmatic evaluation of mock impoliteness in Danmaku comments

Mock impoliteness, a term encompassing a wide array of phenomena (e.g., banter, teasing, mocking, jocular mockery, jocular abuse/insults, humour, etc.), has long been grounded in the framework of (im)politeness. However, the research on the participants’ metapragmatic evaluations of mock impoliteness is scarce, with the exception of Sinkeviciute (2017). This research aims to investigate the third-party participants’ metapragmatic evaluation in Danmaku comments in a Chinese online talk show Roast! that features mock impoliteness speech events. Danmaku, as a commenting system that displays users’ synchronous comments within the video stream, is widely used in Asian countries, especially in China and Japan (Wu & Ito, 2014). Danmaku comments provide easy access to a vast amount of third-party participants’ evaluations of mock impoliteness, which is an ideal data source for this research. Such metapragmatic evaluations offer invaluable insight to the first-order understanding of mock impoliteness, which resonates with the discursive approaches to (im)politeness that advocates first-order understanding of (im)politeness interactions (Eelen, 2001; Locher and Watts, 2005; Locher, 2006, 2012, 2015; Mills, 2003). By qualitatively categorizing the information provided in the Danmaku comments, a data-driven coding scheme is created, which captures different aspects of information: (i) in-text reference (Referent and Speech Event); (ii) pragmatic phenomena that is relevant to mock impoliteness (Impoliteness and Funniness), and (iii) metapragmatic evaluation (positive/negative Evaluation). Then a conditional inference tree model (Hothorn et al., 2006; Tagliamonte and Baayen, 2012; Tantucci and Wang, 2018) was fitted to investigate to what extent the above factors contribute to third-party participants’ metapragmatic evaluations of mock impoliteness. This method generated clear data visualization by displaying the ranking of contributing factors to the metapragmatic evaluations. Such quantitative results were then interpreted through qualitative analysis of typical examples from the data. The analysis concludes that funniness and impoliteness are the two most statistically significant factors contributing to Danmaku users’ qualitative evaluations. This conclusion, in return provides solid empirical evidence for second-order theoretical underpinning of mock impoliteness.

On the formality problem for manifolds with special holonomy

In ??1 and 2 we follow our online talk at the 21st Geometrical Seminar (Beograd, Serbia) on June 30, 2022 by giving a survey of the formality problem for manifold with special holonomy and exposing recent results by M. Amann and the author on the formality of Joyce?s examples of G2-manifolds. In ?3 we expose the approach to establishing the formality by using the intersection Massey products.

Media Effects and Audience Satisfaction: A Comprehensive Study of Self-Transcendence in Online Talk Show Documentaries from a Social Sciences Viewpoint

Media Effects and Audience Satisfaction: A Comprehensive Study of Self-Transcendence in Online Talk Show Documentaries from a Social Sciences Viewpoint

The features of discourse in “online talk show culture”

Online Talk Show Culture is an important manifestation of mass culture. It is an application of new discourse and cultural presentation originated from the integration of mass culture with new media in the current social and temporal context. The Internet endows talk show a great space of creation. At the same time, the features of discourse in online talk shows with Chinese characteristics come into being, filling the gap of language variety shows in mainland China and advancing the formation of online talk show culture. The paper studies online talk shows and explores the discourse features of “talk show culture,” which is empowered by new media, from three perspectives: discourse subject, discourse modality, and discourse strategy.

Bots Amplify and Redirect Hate Speech in Online Discourse About Racism During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Online talk about racism has been salient throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet while such social media conversations reflect existing tensions in the offline world, the same discourse has also become a target for information operations aiming to heighten social divisions. This article examines Twitter discussions of racism in the first and sixth months since COVID-19 was accorded pandemic status by the World Health Organization and uncovers dynamic associations with bot activity and hate speech. Humans initially constituted the most hateful accounts in online conversations about racism in March, but in August, bots dominated hate speech. Over time, greater bot activity likewise amplified levels of hate speech a week later. Moreover, while discourse about racism in March primarily featured an organic focus on racial identities like Asian and Chinese, we further observed a bot-dominated focus in August toward political identities like president, Democrat, and Republican. Although hate speech targeting Asian groups remained present among racism discussions in August, these findings suggest a bot-fueled redirection from focusing on racial groups at the onset of the pandemic to targeting politics closer to the 2020 US elections. This work enhances understanding of the complexity of racism discussions during the pandemic, its vulnerability to manipulation through information operations, and the large-scale quantitative study of inorganic hate campaigns in online social networks.

Online talk in a New Zealand primary-school context

The purpose of this study was to investigate the nature and understanding of online talk in a New Zealand primary-school context. This research consisted of a small-scale case study of the #NZReadaloud, a pre-existing literacy programme, over 6 weeks in mid-2020. A private online group on the education platform Edmodo was established where 14 students and four teachers participating in the study could discuss a text being read aloud in their classrooms. These discussions, along with eight follow-up interviews, were analysed to seek patterns and draw conclusions about the nature of online talk in this context. A key finding from this study showed that online talk was well liked by teachers and students, but that this did not translate into greater amounts or a more interactive style of participation. Allocated time for explicit teaching and modelling of how to talk online is important. Data from this study could be used in future research or as background when planning online literacy discussions.

In The Vortex of Institutional Lives

In The Vortex of Institutional Lives

From texts to contexts: the relevance of digital ethnography in a Foucauldian discourse analysis of online gender talk in Kerala

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to foreground the importance of context in discourse analysis by drawing on a study of online gender talk on Facebook in India.Design/methodology/approachUsing Foucauldian discourse analysis (FDA), this study explored participants’ use of language to construct and perform various identities in online gender talk. This study discusses the methods used and challenges in analyzing digital spaces through FDA, focusing specifically on the importance of an ethnographic perspective to contextualize online talk.FindingsEngagement with the larger socio-cultural context of the subject of study through various data collection methods enhanced our understanding of the contexts behind text. It helped the authors to explore the data from multiple directions from a Foucauldian framework. This study found that people constructed a “progressive” identity when talking about gender on Facebook.Originality/valueThere are very few studies combining discourse analysis and digital ethnography and this paper seeks to do that. Digital ethnography helps to look beyond the text and locate text in the larger socio-cultural context. To emphasize the importance of context in discourse analysis, this study engages with both online and offline data as online talk is connected with offline contexts in many significant ways. In this paper, the authors provide a description on various methodological steps used to collect and analyze online data using FDA.

E-LEARNING KOREAN TRADITIONS THROUGH ENGLISH VIA ONLINE SOURCES: QUALITY OF DISTANCE EDUCATION

n the last decades, edu-apps and online platforms have become a part of modern life. However, the purpose of this online educative technology revolves around language and communication to learn the traditions of other countries. One of the beneficial functions of the e-learning platforms and apps for smartphones is their ability to exchange texts and multimedia. These online learning language experiences between users area benefit that is enhanced through the availability of free chatting apps that facilitate the exchanges with students about foreign language traditions and customers. In order to explore the messaging and voice chatting or using online talking function of gadgets or smartphones, edu-apps and how teachers can employ them to promote spoken communication among Korean learnings through using advanced language learning technologies. This article will describe how to use online platforms, language apps and electron edu-resources by studying the Korean traditions in English sources.

Covid Publics and Black Lives Matter: Posts, Placards and Posters

This article will examine the ways in which COVID has reconfigured the boundaries between online and offline, as well as public and private spaces. The threat posed by the global pandemic meant that public spaces quickly emptied, work zoomed into the home, and windows became notice boards filled with moraleboosting messages. Every Thursday, UK doorsteps became the space in which private individuals emerged from their own homes to express their gratitude to key workers in general and the NHS in particular. Whilst posters calling for better provision of PPE occasionally appeared in people’s windows, online talk about Booing for Boris never fully materialised into offline action, and the doorstep continued to function as the threshold between public and private space. However, the killing of George Floyd radically disrupted these threshold spaces. Information about Black Lives Matter demonstrations leapt from activists’ digital networks into the hyper-local and granular chains of communication established by COVID mutual aid groups, grassroots communities of care and small clusters of neighbours. Similarly, the slogans which had been circulating within activist networks for years quickly appeared on the placards of protesters as they moved through city spaces, before finally settling in people’s windows alongside rainbow posters urging neighbours to “stay safe.” When—on the first Thursday after the final NHS clap—many individuals chose to relinquish the comforting anonymity afforded by mass demonstrations and take the knee on their doorstep, they called their neighbours, as well as their government, into a dialogue about race. In this way, the windowpane and the doorstep finally became a dynamic space which both separated and connected online and offline as well as public and private spaces.

The Effectiveness of GEEKY KIA (Online Talking on Mom and Child Health) on the Anxiety Level of Pregnant Mothers in Facing the Delivery Process

The Covid-19 pandemic is still engulfing all corners of the world, including Indonesia. To prevent the transmission of Covid-19, the government issued various appeals for stricter prevention such as Work from Home (WFH), the 3M program and the community was asked to stay at home, avoiding crowds. With conditions like this, people cannot carry out refreshing activities outside the home which causes people to have a higher level of saturation. Staying at home also has an impact on increasing pregnancy rates in fertile women. During this pregnancy, women are still required to make antenatal care visits to health care facilities by making an agreement with health workers so that delivery goes smoothly, mother and baby are healthy. With pandemic conditions like this, pregnant women, especially entering the third trimester, will increase the level of anxiety facing childbirth, especially pregnant women who want to give birth in the hospital. The policy at the hospital also requires that there is only 1 patient waiting. One way to reduce anxiety levels, we present CULUN KIA, which is a media designed to provide information related to the health of pregnant women and as an educational medium for pregnant women who are approaching labor which is intended to share information related to pregnancy, childbirth, babies and the postpartum period in

Transcultural taste and neoliberal patriotic subject: A study of Chinese fans’ online talk of K-pop

Why are some educated youths continuously fascinated with K-pop despite the increasing anti-Korean sentiment in China? In this study, I explore this puzzle to address the relationship between fans’ contextualized subjectivities and their choice of cross-border fan object. Bridging transcultural fan studies with the sociology of taste, I draw upon the concepts of cultural homology and cultural distinction to conduct a thematic analysis of the taste discourses emerging in the K-pop groups on Douban (www.douban.com). The findings show how this transcultural taste arises from the symbolic fit between the polysemic K-pop text and Chinese followers’ neoliberal aesthetics of idol cultures that value idols’ professional self-development and fans’ consumerist autonomy. These aesthetics are reiterated in K-pop followers’ attempt to reconcile their taste and national loyalty in strategic patriotic performances that negotiate between the official and popular nationalisms in China. The online talk of K-pop is also a process of distinction through which those fans confirm their shared subjectivity by critiquing the domestic mass culture and distinguishing themselves from the nationalist C-pop consumers. Chinese fans’ taste for K-pop, as I conclude, symbolically articulates these educated youths’ condition as neoliberal patriotic subjects in China's transitions to authoritarian capitalism.

Paradigm shift in teaching-learning from classroom to virtual mode – Challenges and opportunities

Since the unprecedented declaration of lockdown there has been a paradigm shift in medical education from chalk and board to virtual mode imposing both challenges and opportunities to faculty and students alike. As guest lecture is an innovative way of pedagogy we addressed them through an online talk to analyse the preferences towards sudden change in medical education. Students and faculty were addressed about the paradigm shift in teaching learning methods through an online guest lecture and the attendees answered a feedback questionnaire on different Teaching Learning methods. Based on responses to the questions results were plotted in Microsoft Excel and completed questionnaires were analyzed for statistics. : 90% of students and 100% of faculty found online guest lecture interesting and opined positively about having more online lectures in academic year. As far as teaching learning method is concerned both faculty and as students preferred offline/ traditional/ classroom teaching. : Online guest lecture offers more opportunities than challenges for both faculty and students. Arranging online guest lectures is economical, cost effective, has ease of attending from place of convenience provided robust internet connection is ensured, eliminates travel time as well as reduces the programme budget. Hence more number of virtual guest lectures can be arranged in an academic year for benefit of medical undergraduates. It is a novel platform for student teacher interaction and arrangement of more and more online guest lectures from eminent speakers excelling in various superspecialities should be encouraged.

Online Sex Talk and the Social World: Mediated Desire

Online Sex Talk and the Social World: Mediated Desire