Web Rings as Computer-Mediated Communication

Elmer, Greg

Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine 1999 6 (1)4131
(ReLIS:jul:juljuo:y:1999:v:6:i:1:p:4131)

Abstract:

As recently as 1994, academic journals such as Communication Education were continuing todefine 'computer-mediated communication' as a decidedly dialogic or conversational phenomenon. Focusing on such technologies as electronic bulletin boards, the Usenet and email, the journal's articles attempted to come to grips with the 'virtual' dimension of text-based, computerized communication. Four short years later, the Internet has become a much more complex, commercialized, politicized and increasingly networked environment, to the extent that web-based resources--particularly home page addresses-- have become fully integrated and hypertextually linked into 'traditional' CMC dialogic technologies

Keywords: Comunicación científica ; Internet ; World wide web
Pages: 4131
Volume: 6
Year: 1999
Issue: 1

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