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Chapter 2
Chatrooms and Small Group Learning
2.1 Chatrooms and Small Group Learning
Before exploring how chatrooms influence behavior in educational discussions, it is useful to briefly examine the previous literature on each of these topics—that is, chatrooms and behavior in educational discussions—separately. First, I describe the literature on chatrooms and why they are an interesting medium for study. Although there is no theoretical reason for choosing chat over any other conversational medium, this technology is unique and interesting in a number of ways.