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- Title
Aproximación a la interacción virtual: el caso de la red social Badoo.
- Authors
Martínez-Lirola, María
- Abstract
Many encounters and conversations now take place through social net- works. Badoo.com is one of the more popular ones, with 102 million users in 2010. his article focuses on communication within Badoo, via chat, between 150 men and the author. he study looks the chief linguistic features of the conversations analyzed (spelling, use of capital leters, emoticons and strategies to convey courtesy or discourtesy). In doing so, it shows the chats are characteristic of oral discourse. The author also drated ive questions in the form of a survey to discover what the male respondents expected of Badoo, their values and interests, if they would like to marry, and what features they value in women.
- Subjects
VIRTUAL reality; ONLINE social networks; ONLINE chat; DISCOURSE analysis; EMOTICONS &; emojis; COURTESY
- Publication
Palabra Clave, 2012, Vol 15, Issue 1, p107
- ISSN
0122-8285
- Publication type
Article