Re: [Air-l] rhetorical analysis on SCMC

Joao Vieira da Cunha wrote:

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.

Very true. I was only thinking of the definition of _synchronous_ from a "techy" perspective. In this case, I don't feel bad about privileging that perspective, as those who construct technologically asynchronous systems as though they were synchronous are constructing away/deconstructing while presumably operating with the same notions of synchrony as techy persons do. I think. --Christian