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Publication
HICSS 1999
Conference paper
Persistent conversation: Discourse as document
Abstract
Digital conversation may be synchronous or asynchronous, and its audience may be intimate or vast. Its persistence means that it may be far more structured, or far more amorphous, than an oral exchange, and that it may have the formality of published text or the informality of chat. The persistence of such conversations also opens the door to a variety of new uses and practices: such conversations may be searched, browsed, replayed, annotated, visualized, restructured, and recontextualized, with what are likely to be profound impacts on personal, social, and institutional practices.