[Air-l] CMC, ICT, digital communication

[Betty Hanson]

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As far as I have been told, CMC is an outdated term.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