Re: [Air-L] CMC - mobile phones included?
hi all I'm based in the School of Computing, where many students increasingly develop mobile phone apps (among other things). Some apps do similar things to the kind of things that we would have created for the Internet, when I did my masters there, 10 years ago. And the folk before probably created similar things for cd-roms. And probably even tried to develop similar things for teletext So, from a development point of view, it doesn't make sense to seperate out mobile phones or social media. CMC research can help developers to support, rather than hinder, communication. (Plus of course a vast range of associated qualities like sociability and surveillance) -Ella Ella Taylor-Smith Institute for Informatics and Digital Innovation Edinburgh Napier University 10 Colinton Road Edinburgh, EH10 5DT Email: e.taylor-smith@napier.ac.uk http://www.iidi.napier.ac.uk/e.taylor-smith http://about.me/EllaTaylorSmith @EllaTasm Edinburgh Napier University offers industry informed courses which combine the optimum balance of theory and practice to equip graduates for success in today's competitive global job market. 92.3% of our graduates are in work or further study within six months of leaving. With over 17,000 students from over 110 countries, we are an international University and are also proud to be the largest UK provider of higher education in Hong Kong. This message is intended for the addressee(s) only and should not be read, copied or disclosed to anyone else outwith the University without the permission of the sender. It is your responsibility to ensure that this message and any attachments are scanned for viruses or other defects. Edinburgh Napier University does not accept liability for any loss or damage which may result from this email or any attachment, or for errors or omissions arising after it was sent. Email is not a secure medium. Email entering the University's system is subject to routine monitoring and filtering by the University. Edinburgh Napier University is a registered Scottish charity. Registration number SC018373
Dear Air-ers - Even though I'm an "AoIR' dropout, I find this conversation a tad confusing. 'Computer' originally meant anything that supplied calculation, including humans as computers. Today, while digital is the acceptable format for computation, digital computation depends on microprocessors (the chip itself). Naturally there would be a chip in one's phone that would manage computation or certainly i/o functions. Let the geeks out there much smarter than moi (Elijah and others) correct me if I am wrong, but I don't see the phone working without a chip. Hence, it remains a CMC. However, the caveat is that I have never liked CMC, or ICT for that matter. Matthew Allen once suggested NICT - networked information communication technology. I like the network idea. But que sera sera. The phone processes. Without the processing, we have no communication. Vocal cords vibrating with nowhere to go. Denise Dr Denise N. Rall, Adjunct Lecturer, School of Arts & Social Sciences Chair of Textiles & Secretary, Popular Culture Australia-New Zealand Currently in Lismore, NSW, Australia Phones - Mobile +(61)(0)438 233344 Fax +(61)(0)2 6624 5380 ________________________________ From: "Taylor-Smith, Ella" <E.Taylor-Smith@napier.ac.uk>
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