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    Stereotypes and gender identity in Italian and Chilean chat line rooms.

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    This work is an attempt to analyze how men and women communicate gender identity by using stereotypical traits in a chat line environment, through quantitative and qualitative data. In Study 1 (Coding & Counting Approach, Herring, 2004), 80 same-sex conversations (40 men and 40 women; 40 Italians and 40 Chileans), carried out in public chatrooms were analyzed using some Project H-Codebook categories and the X2. The categories taken into consideration were: Firstper, Opinion, Apology, Question, Emoticon, Emodevice, Coalition_1, Coalition_2, Fact, Action, Challenge, Flame, Status, Style. The results showed no significant differences between women and men in the use of these categories, except for Flame (p<0.001). We used the Conversational Analysis method in Study 2 to examine conversational dynamics which chatters use to co-construct their identity. Qualitative results have emphasized the existence of specific gender related mechanisms, thereby making it possible to understand the construction of online subjectivity through relationships. Our results suggest that there is an opportunity to investigate communicative style through both quantitative and qualitative differences

    The Telecommuniting a Possible Way for Work Life Balance: an Italian Study

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    The work-life balance is a key theme in our society and Telecommuting could be a useful tool for families. European research doesn't show a large adoption of this kind of contract. The aim of this work is to understand, through a mixed method research, when telecommuting can be a winning job strategy for women, which kind of needs it can support and who is the "effective" telecommuter. Results show the importance of the collaboration between organizations and workers, goal-oriented organizational culture and strategic employees

    The Telecommuniting a Possible Way for Work Life Balance: an Italian Study

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    The work-life balance is a key theme in our society and Telecommuting could be a useful tool for families. European research doesn't show a large adoption of this kind of contract. The aim of this work is to understand, through a mixed method research, when telecommuting can be a winning job strategy for women, which kind of needs it can support and who is the "effective" telecommuter. Results show the importance of the collaboration between organizations and workers, goal-oriented organizational culture and strategic employees

    'I' and 'Other' in Online Interactions: Intersubjectivity as a Social Bridge

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    The aim of this work is to propose Intersubjectivity as a key concept in a social interpretation of online dynamics while studying CyberPsychology and its applications. Dialogue is the inner soul of the Self, considered as "a dynamic multiplicity of voiced positions." The link between the Self and the Others must be considered too. Through dialogue, interlocutors negotiate both ideas and their self-images. Starting from 'single' intentions (a representation of what each participant wants to present outside), interactions support a co-construction of shared and linked images of interlocutors, called Subjectivities. These two or more Subjectivities are the basis of the Intersubjective dimension of an interaction

    PRENDERE FORMA NELLA RETE: DALL'IDENTITÀ ALL'INTERSOGGETTIVITÀ NELLE INTERAZIONI ONLINE

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    La diffusione di Internet e delle Nuove Tecnologie nella vita quotidiana ha offerto la possibilità agli utenti di costruire liberamente diversi profili, anche protetti dall’anonimato. Molti autori si sono interessati del rapporto tra immagine online e Identità e il dibattito ha spostato il focus da un concetto monolitico di Identità all’adozione di una prospettiva dialogica. La domanda di ricerca nasce dall’esigenza di chiarire come si prenda forma online e quanto queste parziali presentazioni si discostino dalle immagini create durante le interazioni faccia a faccia. La ricerca si basa su una proposta teorica focalizzata sui concetti di Soggettività (parziale immagine di sé adattata alle condizioni contestuali) e Intersoggettività (dimensione polilogica entro la quale gli interlocutori negoziano le proprie immagini). Dopo aver costruito un sistema di categorie con cui analizzare la comunicazione via chatline (primo studio), il secondo e il terzo studio, invece, sono incentrati sulla variabilità, sull’adattabilità e sulla natura connettiva della Soggettività. I risultati mostrano che la Soggettività è in grado di adattarsi alle condizioni contestuali facendo emergere un’immagine parziale, ma specifica che è frutto dell’interazione con l’interlocutore. Adattabilità e parzialità non sono necessariamente segni di instabilità, ma costituiscono un strumento con cui evitare un rapporto rigido con la realtà.The increased use of Internet and New Technologies gives the possibility to users to create many real or anonymous, images/profiles. Scholars have been studying the correlation between Identity and the online profiles, and are shifting from the concept of Identity in to a dialogic perspective. The aim of this study is to understand how users present their selves in online environments and if these partial images are so different compared to face to face interactions’ ones. This work is based on a new theoretical proposal based on two concepts: Subjetivity (partial presentation of the Self adapted to external conditions) and Intersubjectivity (dialogical/polilogical dimension in which interlocutors negotiate their subjectivities). A codebook for the analysis of communication via chat line was created in the first study. The second and the third studies are focused on the adapting and connectivistic nature of Subjectivity; results show how users are able to present strategically their selves thanks to negotiation with interlocutors. Adaptability is not necessary a sign of instability, it is a just tool to improve a good relations with ever changing reality
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