Runner's world community

The site we chose our forum from is called the runner's world community. It is available in many countries in the world and since our group is from different countries it is relevant for us. It was also a natural choice for us because of our theme. In our opinion sports are one of the most important part of lifestyle. This site is aimed at people who are interested in a healthy lifestyle. The forum is divided in different topics such as: people (beginners, women, teams..), places and different kinds of sports (marathons and so on..). In order to chat on the forum discussions you have to own an account. Usernames don't have to be real names, you can have a nickname in the discussion. The forum is moderated but they cannot control every piece of content so that's why they encourage people to report trouble to them. There are six rules for the forum that people have to follow when they post which are quite common also in other forums.

We found different lexical and syntactic characteristics in the forum discussion, for example new words the users came up with (slogging = slow jogging), emoticons, informal language, shortenings, capital letters to emphasize their feelings and first person pronouns were common. They used a lot of short sentences and we also noticed that especially the older members used a certain pattern. They mentioned their goal and the experience they had and also cheered for each other.Textual characteristics we found included multimodality, like you can see in the last picture.

M.M, J.J, A.J, S.L, E.L, M.H, L.M, D.C