What is Computer-Mediated Communication?
Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) has traditionally referred to the form of communiation that occurs between people with the aid of a linked computer network. Common examples in our daily lives would include emailing, instant messaging on MSN or Skype (virtual voice call or video call). In recent years, even contact through social networking sites such as Facebook are considered CMC because it involves the use of a computer and most importantly, the Internet. Technological Diffusion Why is the world so taken to the Internet, with many users seemingly even unable to live without the Internet? • Cost-benefit tradeoffs Most would agree if I say the Internet is free. It does not demand anything for it to work (except for a computer and electricity) and most often, we find ourselves referring to the Internet more than anything else, when we need a current piece of information, be it the latest news or Hollywood gossip. As a student, my project references are more often from the Internet
