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Publication details [#58640]
Gernsbacher, Morton Ann. 2014. Internet-Based Communication. Discourse Processes 51 (5,6) : 359–373. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
Although the Internet is not inevitably curtailing communication or making it less formal, it reveals people's predilection for writing over speaking. It is suggested that people's preference for communicating via Internet-based text results from a basic writing trait of asynchrony.