I think Sandeep asks a very important question, well borne out by recent research on STS/cell phone communities, IM, Blackberry, wireless-enabled PDAs, et al. CMC harkens back to a more US-centric time, well before the proliferation of Net-enabled gadgets that we have today and that are emerging, if slowed down by the global tech recession. Such a reconsideration may return us to an earlier time of the first networks (electricity, telephony, broadcast) before stationary systems, necessitated by a plug, were institutionalized. And it could take us forward to cyborg studies. Thus, IMHO, the question connects CMC to the larger issues and theory of technoculture, opening up and amplifying Internet studies as well as making the topic more inclusive -- if perhaps too much so, as Steve brought out. Thanks, Sandeep! Wendy Robinson Duke University