[Air-l] Computer-Mediated-Communication.

[Leo Vidigal]

Hi,

It´s a very interesting question. I think that given the proliferation of
devices, the concept of CMC deserves to be discussed more profoundly. The focus
of research could be PC-centric right now, but I think this situation is going
to change soon, so the communication through PDAs, cell phones (that receives
e-mails), pagers etc, could be subject of a scientific approach . I think CMC as
a field of research can encompass a lot of issues and point of views, so it´s
beyond the "communication field" . In the other hand, if the computer has became
a metamedium (Kay, AIR Conference 1.0), so we can write about mass communication
media,  as Tv and newspapers, that it´s experienced through the computer, as an
issue to CMC, just like we research about interpersonal communication through
e-mail or chat. At the canadian seminar announced by Michael Totschnig last year
- « La communication médiatisée par ordinateur (CMO) : un carrefour de
problématiques » http://grm.uqam.ca/cmo2001/actes.html - these questions were
the main subject of discussion.

Leonardo Vidigal
MA Student
Federal University of Minas Gerais
Brazil

Sandeep Krishnamurthy wrote:

> Friends,
>
> All of you have seen the term computer-mediated-communication(e.g.
> http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/).  A friend recently asked me about the
> PC-centric nature of this definition.  "Why is this not
> screen-mediated-communication or device-mediated communication?", he asked
> me.  I argued that, starting with the Internet, connectivity with others (or
> community, if you like) had to be a component of CMC, but not other forms of
> screen-based-communication.  By this standard, communicating through PDAs or
> e-mail devices such as Blackberry was, indeed, CMC.  But, checking out the
> weather on a kiosk was not.
>
> What do you think?  Is the term CMC too restrictive?
>
> Best,
> Sandeep
>
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>
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