[Air-l] CMC, ICT, digital communication

Betty Hanson betty.hanson at uconn.edu
Mon Aug 28 14:30:18 PDT 2006


Well that is a question!

At 03:52 PM 8/28/2006, you wrote:
>Derrick and Betty,
>You mean that the technology created the community ?
>
>Cheers,
>Frank
>
>
>dcogburn at syr.edu wrote:
> > Dear Betty,
> >
> > Digital Diaspora(s) is a term I have used. Keep well
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Derrick
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > From:  Betty Hanson <betty.hanson at uconn.edu>
> > Subj:  Re: [Air-l] CMC, ICT, digital communication
> > Date:  Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:31 am
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> > To:  air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> >
> > I am searching for a label for ethnic communities that are created by
> > either the Internet or satellite television.  Does anybody have any idea
> > what encompassing term I could use here.  Virtual ethnic communities would
> > apply only to the Internet.
> > Betty Hanson
> >
> >
> > At 12:00 PM 7/24/2006, Mark Bell wrote:
> >
> >> Folks,
> >>
> >> As far as I have been told, CMC is an outdated term. One professor told me
> >> it was archaic and vague - asking if we should also refer to "pen mediated
> >> communication". There certainly is a lot of research into how we 
> communicate
> >> in the digital, multi-channel, immersive environment, so we should have a
> >> unifying term.
> >>
> >> It sounds like we need a new term but I agree digital communication 
> and ICT
> >> are far too broad. The work I am doing with Wikipedia is definitely
> >> stigmergic in nature (or at least I hope to prove it is) but that is very
> >> different from IM or email.
> >>
> >> M
> >>
> >>
> >> On 7/24/06, Martin Garthwaite <marting at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Jillana,
> >>>
> >>> I would agree, if you look at a time line, I remember reading about CMC
> >>> over
> >>> 15 years ago, and I'll go out on a limb here and say that quite a lot of
> >>> the
> >>> research on CMC was done pre-mass adoption of Internet. So services like
> >>> CompuServe, CIX and AOL that provided walled gardens that were not
> >>> originally part of the Internet. CMC also referred to mailing lists like
> >>> this one, e-mail, usenet groups, all these systems were pre-html
> >>> technologies.
> >>>
> >>> ICT appears to me to be a catch all term, and I find digital 
> communication
> >>> a
> >>> little ambiguous.
> >>>
> >>> Martin.
> >>> m.k.garthwaite at lse.ac.uk
> >>> MSc candidate media at lse
> >>>
> >>> On 7/24/06, Jillana Enteen <jillana at jillana.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hello all,
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm trying to sort out the differences in etymology and meaning
> >>>> between CMC, ICT and digital communication. I'm having a hard time--
> >>>> other than recognizing the academic/educational basis for ICT and its
> >>>> roots in IT, it seems to me that these terms are used interchangeably.
> >>>>
> >>>> Any thoughts?
> >>>>
> >>>> best wishes, jillana
> >>>> Jillana Enteen
> >>>> jillana at jillana.net
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Martin Garthwaite
> >>>
> >>> +447957 764819
> >>> +4420 7871 9656 (Skypein - call me and wherever in the world I am I'll
> >>> either talk to you or get a voice mail)
> >>> Skype id mgarthwaite1330
> >>> MS IM marting at gmail.com
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>>
> >
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