. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . till we *) . . . Hi, I know that I'm replying somehow late, but confronted with this problem in my masters thesis (about a virtual party convention), I decided to differentiate between not asynchronous and synchronous CMC, but between different (social, normative) 'speeds' of CMC. So a not only technically, but also socially asynchronous web page embedded discussion group is slower than an e-mail conversation is slower than a fast chat, where everybody is expecting you to answer the same minute. Or in other words: ignoring the technical principal asynchronousness of CMC, there are more synchron kinds of CMC and less synchron kinds. Together this leads to an social agreed upon normal answer expectancy time, and to some kind of shared attention focus or horizon. Best regards, Till Westermayer, M.A.
As I'm sure others will note, there's a problem with the notion of synchronous CMC. All CMC systems have some kind of lag built into them. --Christian Nelson
shufang wrote:
I'm going to do a literature review on synchronous CMC research that takes a rhetorical or discourse analysis approach.
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