[Air-l] CMC, ICT, digital communication

[Frank Thomas]

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 As far as I have been told, CMC is an outdated term.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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>>>
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