Computer Mediated Communication

✍ Scribed by Dr Crispin Thurlow, Laura Lengel, Professsor Alice Tomic

• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 267
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book offers students a task-based introduction to Computer-Mediated Communication and the impact of the internet on social interaction. Divided into four parts which require students to learn, (theory), critique, (current issues), explore, (methods), and reflect, (practice), the book aims to: · Provide a foundation to the social and communicative nature of information and communication technologies· Enable students to engage with the key theoretical issues associated with CMC· Equip students with the necessary research and technical skills as a stimulus to independent enquiry.In spite of the rapidly increasing interest in Internet Studies and CMC and the introduction of many university courses in the area, no specialised, introductory textbook exists. This coursebook responds to the need for such a text. Aimed primarily at communication students, this book would also be useful as a sourcebook for students of media, sociology, psychology, and English Language Studies.The authors have also created a companion website at http://www.com.washington.edu/cmc

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 10
Acknowldegements......Page 11
Introduction 1 - For Students: Getting into CMC......Page 12
Introduction 2 - For Course Leaders: Teaching CMC......Page 19
Strand 1: Learn: Basic Theory......Page 24
Unit 1 - Defining CMC: An Introduction to the Field......Page 25
Unit 2 - Situating CMC: Technologies 'For' Communitcation......Page 36
Unit 3 - Theorizing CMC: Technology and Social Interaction......Page 46
Unit 4 - Describing CMC: Interpersonal Dynamics......Page 56
Unit 5 - Explaning CMC: Group Dynamics......Page 69
Unit 6 - Contextualizing CMC: 'Flaming' and Embedded Media......Page 80
Strand 2: Critique: Central Issues......Page 92
Unit 1 - Online Ethics and International Inequities......Page 93
Unit 2 - Online Identity: Real or Virtual?......Page 106
Unit 3 - Online Communities: Real or Imagined?......Page 118
Unit 4 - Language and the Internet......Page 129
Unit 5 - Women and the Internet......Page 140
Unit 6 - Interpersonal Attraction, Cybersex and Cyberporn......Page 148
Unit 7 - Antisocial Behaviour, Online Compulsion and 'Addiction'......Page 159
Strand 3: Apply: Fieldwork......Page 172
Task 1 - Searching and Researcning on the Internet......Page 174
Task 2 - Online Collaboration: Doing CMC, Discussing CMC......Page 181
Task 3 - Creating a Webpage: HTML and WYSIWYG Editing......Page 186
Task 4 - Making Conversation: Online Chat and Messaging......Page 192
Task 5 - Building Community: Metaworlds and Visual Chat......Page 198
Task 6 - Constructing Identity: Personal Homepages and Webcams......Page 203
Strand 4: Explore: Focus Areas......Page 208
Topic 1 - Political Communication in CMC......Page 210
Topic 2 - Legal Communication in CMC......Page 213
Tobic 3 - Organizational Communication in CMC......Page 217
Topic 4 - Health Communication in CMC......Page 220
Topic 5 - Lifespan Communication in CMC (I)......Page 223
Topic 6 - Lifespan Communication in CMC (II)......Page 227
Topic 7 - Instructional Communication in CMC......Page 231
Topic 8 - Visual Communication in CMC......Page 235
Topic 9 - New Media Developments in CMC......Page 239
List of Stimulus and Task Reading......Page 244
All Other References......Page 247
Indexed Glossary of Key Terms......Page 257
Index......Page 262