Christian, Sure, but one can concede that users can socially construct systems such as instant messaging as synchronous. It is an issue of whether we're using technocentric definitions of systems or usercentric definitions of them. Joao PhD Student MIT / Sloan At 02:16 PM 2/25/2002 -0500, you wrote:
Christian Nelson wrote:
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.
I should say "All CMC systems that are widely available at present . . . ." Of course, with the advent of things like Internet 2 the possibility of simultaneous vocal and/or visual communication may well be possible. --Christian
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