I cannot speak to differences or similarities between computers and other media, but I have argued taking care not to assume differences between CMC and face-to-face communication without empirical research. For instance, I've argued that there are similarities between CMC and face-to-face talk in terms of arguments, and that by calling certain phenomena "flaming" scholars risk bracketing off computer-based phenomena as automatically different from what happens in face-to-face conversation, before empirical research is even begun. So I argue for extinguishing the term flaming. http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_9/lange/index.html Cheers, Patricia Lange, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow Annenberg Center for Communication --- Sam Tilden <tildensam@yahoo.com> wrote:
Most of the research in CMC seems to "assume" differences between CMC and other media such as telephone and letter-mail.
I have been unable to find research that clearly delineates this difference. Can anyone help me here.
Sam
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