There has been very little work on humor in computer-mediated communication. Indeed, the implication of some CMC work is that the medium is inhospitable to humor. This essay argues that humor can be accomplished in CMC and can be critical to creating social meaning on-line. The humor of the Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.tv.soaps (r.a.t.s.), which discusses soap operas, is analyzed. The method combi...

Face-to-face human interaction is divided into "focused" and "unfocused" types. Unfocused interaction often conveys important content and context information and contributes to group cohesiveness and effectiveness. Research in Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) and Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) is also concerned with human interaction. CMC tools, such as electronic mail, and C...

In this study, a social presence theory was examined to evaluate effectiveness of visualizing social interactions within computer mediated communication (CMC). The following three Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) were compared to investigate the relationship between visualizing interaction and enhancing the social presence of the user: a “time-series BBS” which displays writings in time-series; a “...

Authentic experiences encourage the student to cognitively engage the content by actively trying to make sense and to integrate the experience. This chapter describes a range of currently available and emerging mediated communication technologies for supporting both didactic and constructivist approaches to language acquisition. Even though CMC has several unique characteristics that make it su...

Texts exchanged in business-related Computer-Mediated Communication, or CMC, differ from texts exchanged in other business situations. CMC data have a high concentration of non-standard textual features. The fast-growing amount of business CMC data offers opportunities for the application of statistical Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning methods, especially for text-classification...

Chat language is often referred to as Computer-mediated communication (CMC). Most of the previous studies on chat language has been dedicated to collecting ”chat room” data as it is the kind of data which is the most accessible on the WEB. This kind of data falls under the informal register whereas we are interested in this paper in understanding the mechanisms of a more formal kind of CMC: dia...

This study employed an experimental simulation to examine how well individuals and an entire distributed team could perform tasks when some members changed locations. Meanwhile, on a theoretical level it probed into the mechanism of how personnel rotation affected performance. We found that the impacts of personnel movements were asymmetric within a distributed team. Individuals shifting from a...

This paper examines the ways in which language is evolving in certain online courses within French higher education. In particular, it addresses usage of computer-mediated communication (CMC) and various linguistic issues associated with discussion and chat groups. WebCT, a commercially available virtual learning environment (VLE) is used as a basis of the study. Previous research (Panckhurst a...

Cultural factors are often identified as a crucial influence on the success or failure of information systems in general or computer-mediated communication (CMC) in particular. Several authors have suggested ways in which management can accommodate these factors or solve the problem they pose. This paper attempts to go one step beyond management measures and ask whether there is a theoretical f...

To meet the challenges of fast-paced globalization and a more demanding high-tech environment of the future, it is imperative that students of the university are equipped with relevant skills and competencies especially in on-line literacy and communication skills. This article reports on a study, which explored the application of Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) in an English for Civil En...