Case Study 6: Baseball Chatroom Data
Date: Friday, March 03, 2000
Source: Talk City Baseball Chat
Research Note: The following dialogue was saved for research purposes on Internet chat for a postgraduate degree. Participants were informed, and no objections were raised.
CS-6.1 Table 1: Chatters
| Speaker | Number of Turns |
|---|
| BLUERHINO11 | 20 |
| NMMprod | 19 |
| MLB-LADY | 12 |
| MollyChristine | 4 |
| dhch96 | 24 |
| CathyTrix-gues | 12 |
| Pizza2man | 21 |
| smith-eric | 11 |
| Nickatnite13 | 4 |
| Chris_Pooh | 9 |
| KnobbyChic-11 | 3 |
| mwillie1 | 2 |
| Neeca-Neeca | 3 |
CS-6.2 Table 2: All Turn Taking
| Turn | Speaker | Message |
|---|
| 4 | Neuage | I am saving this dialogue... |
| 5 | BLUERHINO11 | sox beat the tribe |
| 6 | NMMprod | nop |
| 7 | MLB-LADY | no clev fan but like wright |
| 8 | BLUERHINO11 | why? |
| 155 | BLUERHINO11 | PEDRO!!!! |
CS-6.3 Individual TCU (Turn Constructional Units)
CS-6.3.1 Table 3: BLUERHINO11
| Turn | Message |
|---|
| 4 | sox beat the tribe |
| 7 | why? |
| 32 | yans, sox, orioles, jays, rays... |
| 155 | PEDRO!!!! |
CS-6.3.2 Table 4: NMMprod
| Turn | Message |
|---|
| 5 | nop |
| 11 | lol |
| 15 | nop |
| 154 | like jeter? |
CS-6.4 Table 16: Just Words
- sox beat the tribe
- nop
- no clev fan but like wright
- why?
- PEDRO!!!!
CS-6.5 Table 5: Tangent Topic Thread
| Turn | Speaker | Message |
|---|
| 99 | dhch96 | 1111111111 |
| 100 | BLUERHINO11 | got it |
| 101 | dhch96 | 1111111 |
| 111 | BLUERHINO11 | im removing that # now |