Computer-mediated Communication

What are the most significant differences in how humans interact and make meaning with printed texts, interactive computer media, and other humans in face-to-face encounters? Focus on the linguistic-semantic co-variates of differences in interactional and operational modes. Relevant for CMC and learning, CMC and education, and basic linguistic variation issues associated with mode of interaction. Note the role of visual cues, multimedia perception, physical interaction and interaction potential, bodily vulnerability, rate of information exchange. What are the most relevant factors for linguistic variation among texts produced in reading, writing, FTF dialogue, telephone conversation, chat room discussion, email, listgroup email, etc.? For what communicative and learning functions are the various interactional-communicative modes most and least effective? Consider informational, affective, and bodily dimensions of this issue.


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