Week4-CMC+Identity

=**Week 4: Computer-mediated communication and Digital Identity**=

The technology/medium - The language and message - The social relationships
 * The technology/medium
 * Media Richness Theory
 * Cues filtered out perspective
 * Synchronicity
 * Asynchronous: not sychronized in real-time
 * ex: email, mailing lists (disucussion groups), news groups, message boards, blogs
 * Synchronous
 * The languages and messages
 * f2f vs. CMC
 * hybrid language
 * The social relationship


 * Media Richness Theory - transmission of rich information requires instantaneous FB and a higher level of interactivity, found in a rich medium. Thus, rich media permit more information and better message transmission
 * Cues filtered out perspective - reduced social context cues make it more difficult to interpret non-verbal cues
 * Social Information Processing Theory- Regardless of the medium, people seek to increase affinity and reduce uncertainty by getting more information about the people with whom they relate.
 * Social Identity Theory- We orient ourselves to others socially. We perceive/identitfy "categories" of individuals and groups.
 * Communicating in mediated forms has limits:
 * Media has **limited carrying capactiy** thus is less rich in ability to convey information, emotion, and context
 * Media **changes the timing** of how we communication (e.g. "real time" vs. asynchronous and transmission speed of texts/emails)

-Identity 2.0. This is a decentralized communication standard which would allow users to easily manage their identity online.
 * describe technologies here
 * New perspective & focus emerger
 * focused less on technology and more on the qualities of the messages and languages during CMC


 * CMC was defined by: disrupted time and space of communication, absence of regulating feedback, and reduced stress and position cues