Index of topics 257
asynchronous vs synchronous situations,
11–12, 129, 141, 167, 226
in language teaching, 234–5
in virtual worlds, 191
see alsochatgroups
at(@), 21, 83, 96
attachments, 11, 95–6, 105, 110, 233
audience awareness, 18, 77, 108, 204, 206
audio files, 124
audiology, 232
authentic materials, 235
authorship, 206–8
auto-greet, 154
automated elements in e-mails, 99–100,
105, 109
automatic document classification, 211
avatars, 12, 175
Babel, 216
Babel fish, 227
back-channelling, 143
bandwidth, 75, 225, 241
banning
from chatgroups, 152
Web sites, 206
BBC, 228
News Online, 201
Bible translation, 2
bibliography, 202
bicapitalization, 87–8
blackholing, 54
blends, 83
blind carbon copy, 96
block language, 89
body content
of chatgroups, 144
of e-mails, 95, 99, 107–24
body language, 36, 162
boldface, 87, 110
bonk, 54
books, compared with chatgroups, 135–6
-bot,83
bouncing back, 96–7
boundaries of electronic texts, 48
boundary markers in e-mails, 105
brainstorming, 58
branching structures, 197
brevity, 49, 57, 98, 134, 156, 187, 200
brief history of the future, A, vii, 14
British attitudes to silence, 32
British Council, 232
British Library, 196, 198
broadcasting, 2, 123, 135, 162, 181,
193, 225
browsers, 198, 226–7
bulletin boards, 11–12, 129
bullets, 110, 124
bullying, 127
business correspondence, 105–6, 109–12,
118, 124, 233
C, 173
cable technology, 225
CALLseecomputer-assisted language
learning
calligraphy, 195
Cambridge biographical encyclopedia,The,
207
Cambridge encyclopedia of the English
language,The,25
camera, 226
capitalization, 195
avoidance, 75, 80, 123–4, 164–5, 236
expressing ‘shouting’, 35, 73, 87
in e-mail greetings, 101
in house-style, 76
in junk-mail, 97–8
in Netspeak, 87
normalizing, 214
of Internet, 3
syllabic, 229
to express prosody, 34
captions, TV, 89
carbon copyseecopy
caret, 90
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Feature Objects,
188
case (grammar), 165
case-sensitivity, 87, 215
ccseecopy
Cellnet, 230
censorship, 2, 133, 206
censorware, 211
channels (IRC), 151, 163
character limitations
in e-mail, 98
in phone screens, 229
on the Web, 222
character note, 104–5
characters (in MUDs), 174–6