[Air-l] CMC, ICT, digital communication

Betty Hanson betty.hanson at uconn.edu
Tue Jul 25 10:10:43 PDT 2006


Hi Derrick:
         Many thanks.  But does that encompass satellite TV as well?
All the best,
Betty

At 01:58 PM 7/25/2006, you wrote:
>Dear Betty,
>
>Digital Diaspora(s) is a term I have used. Keep well
>
>Cheers,
>Derrick
>
>
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>
>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As far as I have been told, CMC is an outdated term.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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