• Hypertext News

• News value

• Newsworthiness (Galtung, Ruge 1965)

• Frequency

• Amplitude (dramatic consequence)

• unexpectedness / surprise/ sensation

• Clarity

• Relativity

• Recognizability

• Continuity

• Balanced view

• It & National Culture

• Sweden = web - savviest country, on-line gamers

• Cyber-attack

• Communication in virtual space e-communication

Technical + computer slang

Inaccurate punctuation

Misspelling

Loose participles (going to see you)

Telegraphic style (written + oral speech)

Sharing ideas (in portions)

Emoticons ( abbreviations, smilies, acronyms – 10-15 of them are widely used)

Flame wars / flaming - deliberately confrontational message

Scrolling – sending non-sensible messages preventing other people from discussion and wasting communicative space

Flooding

Spam/ spamming

Money, power, sex & blood are of top interest in the Internet В. Херст (США)

• @

• Klammeraffe ( German - monkey-spider )

• Grisehale (Danish, Norwegian - pig’s tale)

• Snabel (Swedish – elephant’s trunk)

• Kanelbule (Swedish - cinnamon roll)

• Apestaart / apestaartje ( Dutch – small monkey’s tale)

• miukumauku (Finnish - sound imitation)

• Kukac (Hungarian – worm)

• Majmun (Bulgarian, Serbian – monkey)

• Arroba ( Spanish, Italian - weight )

• Nicks

• OMEGA TopCap Crash cremator

• Fuel CheGevara Zero kazanova

• Raven Viking Nobody Tomahawk

• Nitro BIG Flash Gepard

• Я_свободен_я_ничей

• сексэкскурсовод

• Дикая-но-Симпатичная

• Просто-Милая-Девушка-для Тебя

• Мадемуазель- Помпадур

• mail-to-lover

• I –like-sex-sex-and-more, -sex do-what-I-said entertain-me

• Prettier-than-Brittney Smart Male-Is Here babys-home-alone

• Acronyms

• LTNS – long time no see WB – welcome back

• GTSU – Glad To See You H&K – Hug & Kiss

• SETE –Smiling Ear To Ear ATB – All The Best

• BRB – Be Right Back BBL – Be Back Later

• Netiquette

• Code of network ethics

• Style of electronic communication

1. Remember the human

Your correspondent is a person with feelings like yours

Computer is just a mediator

2. Adhere to the same standards of behavior online that you follow in real life

Standards / Rules might be different in different segments of cyberspace

3. Know where you are in cyberspace

Netiquette varies from domain to domain

4. Respect other people’s time and bandwidth.

When you send e-mail you take other people’ time

5. Make yourself look good online

Take advantage of your autonomy

Know what you are talking about and make sense

Don’t post flame-bait (Be polite and pleasant, do not use offensive language, don’t be confrontational for the sake of confrontation)

6. Share expert knowledge

Sharing your knowledge is fun. It makes the world a better place

7. Help keep flame wars under control

8. Respect other people’s privacy

9.Don’t abuse your power ( more knowledge does not mean that you can take advantage of others)

10. Be forgiving to other people’s mistakes