Hello Darja and everyone else, I think there are multiple questions within the original query. Most of the replies I have seen tackle the "mediated" part of CMC. I agree that this term no longer fits because we also communicate with our machines not simply through them. The focus of my research is on this aspect of communication "with" our machines that occurs both concurrently in our communication with humans (i.e. using Facebook, sending a text, etc) and in our direct interaction with machines (i.e. Siri, AI, etc). As of now, I refer to my research area as "human-machine communication." This term is by no means elegant and, as other people have pointed out, has industrial connotations. I use the term "machine" instead of computer or technology, however, because it is more inclusive. Darja, if you are interested in communication with machines you may want to consult the cybernetics tradition within communication research. There is also the "computer" question: Does a mobile phone qualify as a computer for the purposes of CMC? To that my response is, "Which mobile phone?" Contemporary mobile phones are actually "mobile devices" with multiple technological layers and, arguably, resemble mini-computers more than they do phones. Recent literature on mobile technologies and the history of the mobile phone discusses these different aspects. Another way to approach your question is to look at the specific activities you are studying (text, phone calls) and to consider how they have been treated in the literature in the past or to look at corresponding activities on the (desktop?) computer i.e. instant messaging, etc. Good luck! -- Andrea L. Guzman, M.A. PhD Candidate Department of Communication University of Illinois at Chicago aguzma31@uic.edu