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@lse.ac.uk MSc candidate media@lse On 7/24/06, Jillana Enteen <jillana@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@jillana.net
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