I am searching for a label for ethnic communities that are created by either the Internet or satellite television. Does anybody have any idea what encompassing term I could use here. Virtual ethnic communities would apply only to the Internet. Betty Hanson At 12:00 PM 7/24/2006, Mark Bell wrote:
Folks,
As far as I have been told, CMC is an outdated term. One professor told me it was archaic and vague - asking if we should also refer to "pen mediated communication". There certainly is a lot of research into how we communicate in the digital, multi-channel, immersive environment, so we should have a unifying term.
It sounds like we need a new term but I agree digital communication and ICT are far too broad. The work I am doing with Wikipedia is definitely stigmergic in nature (or at least I hope to prove it is) but that is very different from IM or email.
M
On 7/24/06, Martin Garthwaite <marting@gmail.com> wrote:
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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