American Sign Language in virtual space

Interactions between deaf users of computer-mediated video communication and the impact of technology on language practices

Bibliographic Data

ID2860068
AuthorsElizabeth Keating (0000-0002-2546-2733, The University of Texas at Austin), Gene Mirus (The University of Texas at Austin)
Year2003
Volume32
Issue5
Pages693-714
Publication date2003-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage in Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047404503325047
OpenAlexW2008203111
LanguageEN
Citations received43
References cited10

According to some discussions concerning new information technologies and technologically enhanced communication, we are now in a revolution as profound as the printing press. The Internet is creating new kinds of meetingplaces and work areas and the possibilities of new types of relationships across time and space. This article reports on some ways that the Internet is shaping language practices in the Deaf community, with an interest in how new tools mediate and influence human behavior, including language and the organization of interaction. This includes the development and manipulation of a computer-mediated image of self and other, creativity and problem-solving in new communicative spaces, creating reciprocal perspectives, new participation frameworks, and specifics of language change. For the first time, deaf people can communicate using manual visual language, in many cases their native language, across space and time zones. This groundbreaking situation makes the Deaf community a particularly productive site for research into relationships between technological innovations and new communicative practices

Constructed language · Creativity · Linguistics · Reciprocal · Sign (mathematics) · Sign language · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · The Internet · Visual language · World Wide Web · Categorization, perception, and language · Computer Science · Hearing Impairment and Communication · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology · Social Psychology

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