| Tang, Lijun  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6815-0625
      2012.
      
      'In the name of love': Learning through online support.
      Convergence
      18
      
        (4)
      
      , pp. 465-472.
      
      10.1177/1354856512439505 | 
      Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354856512439505
    
  
  
    Abstract
This article examines a group of Chinese seafarer-partners’ activities in an online support group and discusses how gender issues may serve to influence women’s informal learning process online. It reveals that seafarer-partners not only acquired information, knowledge and emotional support, but also learnt an attitude, which helped them to adapt to the environment. In this process, gendered communication content and style and gendered beliefs/values played a role.
| Item Type: | Article | 
|---|---|
| Date Type: | Publication | 
| Status: | Published | 
| Schools: | Research Institutes & Centres > Seafarers International Research Centre (SIRC) Schools > Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education) | 
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races L Education > L Education (General) | 
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Bulletin Board Systems; BBS; China; gender; Home of Chinese Seafarers; HCS; informal learning; intimacy; marriage; online support groups; seafaring; internet | 
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications | 
| ISSN: | 1354-8565 | 
| Last Modified: | 25 Oct 2022 08:36 | 
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/53676 | 
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