I believe that Roxanne Hiltz and Murray Turoff were first/early users of "Computer Mediated Communication" (CMC) in the first edition of Hiltz, S. Roxanne, and Murray Turoff. 1978. The Network Nation. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. Yup, that's before some list members were born. (But I don't have the book handy.) THeir Network Nation title was consciously adopted from Paul Craven and my "The Network City" paper (1973). Which also introduced "network of networks" well before the Internet. And which may have begat "THe Network Society" (Castells, 1996), and certainly begat Tracy Kennedy and my "The Network Household" (2007; ICS) and my "networked individualism" (2000; IJURR) As far as CMC/ICT, I've been increasingly using ICT because it encompasses information as well as communication. (Of course, info has to be communicated to be useful.) My sense is that the CSCW crowd still uses CMC a fair amount. Talk about anachronisms -- CSCW sure is a misleading one. But yet there is an annual conference. Everything old is new again. Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 You're invited to visit & contribute to the new version of "Updating Cybertimes: It's Time to Bring Our Culture into Cyberspace" http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________