[Air-l] CMC, ICT, digital communication
Frank Thomas
news.ftr at free.fr
Wed Aug 30 02:48:56 PDT 2006
I would be surprised if you said that technology behaves as an
independent actor. All that is built into a technology and especially
the usage rules are socially constructed. So, a technology might
facilitate the creation of a social network, with interacting members
and some feeling of belonging. But it can' create it.
Technology -> Society (and the anxiety that it might wreak havoc with
society) sounds quite American-centred for my European-trained
sociological mind :-)
Betty Hanson wrote:
> 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 As far as I have been told, CMC is an outdated term.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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>>>>>
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