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Purpose of
study/Research objective
Computer has become one of the most important
tools for communication. People use computer to communicate using various mode
and the mode that is chosen is by analyzing videos on YouTube.
The objective of this study is to find out how people use asynchronous mode of
CMC by using YouTube as a mode of communicating. Apart from that, this research
is to find out know how stressed words catch audience excitement and why some
words is being stressed and unstressed.
Literature
Review
In the case of instant
messaging (IM), although the technology is designed to work synchronously, it
often is used asynchronously, especially by college students (Baron, 2005). The
technology of CMC has generally dictated that computer-mediated messages are
written. However, end users often comment on the informal speech-like quality
of the medium (e.g., Lee, 2002). There is also a growing tendency for younger
users to look at email as a relatively formal medium in comparison to IM (Shiu
& Lenhart, 2004). One challenge in interpreting some of the CMC literature
(e.g., Crystal 2001; Ferrara, Brunner, & Whittemore, 1991) is that it
generalizes across different genres of CMC (e.g., email, chat, web pages),
while usage patterns across genres may show considerable disparity. Other than
that, given the concomitant variance found in traditional spoken and (off-line)
written language (Tannen, 1982a, 1982b; Chafe &Tannen, 1987), it is often
unclear against what norm CMC data are being compared. In terms of face-to-face
spoken conversation, question arises in regards to how speakers divide their
turns into smaller units. As Chafe (1980, 1994, 2001), Crystal (1975), Halliday
(1967), Swerts and Geluykens (1994), and others have observed, speakers
involved in either monologic or dialogic discourse commonly divide their
utterances into smaller intonation or breath groups, separated by falling or
rising intonation or by a pause.
Methodology-
Sampling
Source of data
for this research was obtained from one of the popular video sharing platforms
called YouTube. As for the videos, two videos were chosen for the purpose of
comparison which video people will prefer to watch at; either the one with more
stressed words or the one with more unstressed words. The data for both videos
were analyzed by using the method of word by word transcription and tabulated
into a form of table to segment which to identify which word is being stressed
and unstressed. This is to make sure the analysis meets the research framework
which is the field of Phonetics and Phonology, specifically on the topic of
stressed and unstressed words.
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