Cyber-Mediation: Computer-Mediated Communications Medium Massaging the Message

Computer-Mediated Communications Research in Russia

David Nguyen SIMS290- Computer Mediated Communications

We are bad enough at communicating – we don’t need the help of technology. But that’s that’s precisely what video conferencing systems seem to help us do! In a world where the people we work with may be across the country or around the world, we are ever vigilant in finding tools that help us communicate better and we often employ a myriad of technologies to do so. Many of these technologies ha...

Classification of Flames in Computer Mediated Communications

Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) has brought about a revolution in the way the world communicates with each other. With the increasing number of people, interacting through the internet and the rise of new platforms and technologies has brought together the people from different social, cultural and geographical backgrounds to present their thoughts, ideas and opinions on topics of their i...

"The Medium" Is the Message

It is our position (following Plaice and Kropf [4]) that mathematics and software engineering do not provide a very good basis for understanding communities. These formalisms are necessarily influenced by a mechanical, atomistic outlook which sees collections as arbitrary assemblages of self-sufficient individuals communicating point to point in a vacuum. I suggest instead that ideas of Marshal...

The Medium or the Message

Subjects communicated prior to playing trust games; the richness of the communication media and the topics of conversation were manipulated. Communication richness failed to produce significant differences in first-mover investments. However, the topics of conversation made a significant difference: the amounts sent were considerably higher in the unrestricted communication conditions than in t...