[Air-l] CMC, ICT, digital communication

[Martin Garthwaite]

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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