[Air-l] Computer-Mediated-Communication.

[Sandeep Krishnamurthy]

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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