Cultural Impact
Despite being virtual, chat can spill into the outside world. There can also be a strong sense of online identity leading to impression of subculture. Compare Internet sociology.
Chats are valuable sources of various types of information, the automatic processing of which is the object of chat/text mining technologies.
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“The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“Television does not dominate or insist, as movies do. It is not sensational, but taken for granted. Insistence would destroy it, for its message is so dire that it relies on being the background drone that counters silence. For most of us, it is something turned on and off as we would the light. It is a service, not a luxury or a thing of choice.”
—David Thomson, U.S. film historian. America in the Dark: The Impact of Hollywood Films on American Culture, ch. 8, William Morrow (1977)