Sack W. "What does a very large-scale conversation look like? Artificial dialectics and the graphical summarization of large volumes of e-mail" Leonardo 35(4):417-426, 2002

[Eugene Garfield]

Warren Sack : sack at sims.berkeley.edu

A prepublication version of the article is available at :
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~sack/SIGGRAPH01/



Title   What does a very large-scale conversation look life? Artificial
    dialectics and the graphical summarization of large volumes of e-mail
Author  Sack W
Journal LEONARDO 35 (4): 417-426 2002

 Document type: Article  Language: English
 Cited References: 30    Times Cited: 0


Abstract:
E-mail-based conversations between thousands of people--very large-scale
conversations (VLSCs)--now take place in a variety of on-line public spaces
such as Usenet newsgroups and large listservs. This article describes the
author's prototype Conversation Map system, which can automatically analyze
and graphically summarize thousands of e-mail messages exchanged in VLSCs.
Example conversation maps of nine VLSCs are presented. Finally, the
sociolinguistic analysis performed by the Conversation Map is discussed as a
form of artificial dialectics, and the graphical summaries produced by the
system are considered as potential common ground between participants in a
VLSC.

Addresses:
Sack W, Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

Publisher:
M I T PRESS, CAMBRIDGE

IDS Number:
583XF

ISSN:
0024-094X