Publications

Publication details [#53431]

Palomares, Nicholas A. and Eun-Ju Lee. 2010. Virtual Gender Identity: The Linguistic Assimilation to Gendered Avatars in Computer-Mediated Communication. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 29 (1) : 5–23.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adaptation | computer communication system | gender | identity negotiation | language use

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study explores whether men and women linguistically adapt to the virtual gender identity of randomly assigned (either matched or mismatched) gendered avatars in computer-mediated communication.