Online discourse environment

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Online discourse environments are online spaces where people interact with one another by some means of discourse. This can include asynchronous discussion boards, synchronous chat, multi-user online games, or any other computer-mediated communication tool. These environments are primarily text-based, but may contain multi-media elements such as images, animation, or emoticons. Research on online discourse often takes a social-cultural or linguistic view, where learning occurs through participation in computer-mediated communication (CmC) (see references below).

Examples include IRC, MSN Messenger, ICQ.

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