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unit reflection #2
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thomas t
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21 April 2009
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Computer-Mediated Communication
The last course was all about the good and the bad sides of CMC - Ying and Yang you may call it. It's obvious that everything has this and so we were divided in two groups to collect these on base of the texts I mentioned in the last reading reflection. Well, if I had known how our instructor want to use them, I had read them in an other way. But she didn't and so I think the whole class was struggling with this task. My group we tried to find them in the texts. We worked quiet, which surly isn't the style our instructor prefer. The other group was discussing very much but fact is, in the end we both found rather the same six good and six bad things. It was too less for her. She said that there are dozens of things mentioned in the texts. Well, I'm sorry, we don't find them.
Here a quick list of the good and bad sides as far as I remember. I didn't have the time to write it down in course - sorry.
Positive sides:
After that we discussed our collection with the whole class. I remember that I was really astonished as someone mentioned that she never think about the Internet was not private, even it feels so. OK, I am used to check my profile with Google and 123people every two or three month. I think it's necessary to know your profile, because that is what the others will know about you.
In the end our instructor asked us certain questions about our social behavior in the net. I now give you the questions and my answers.
Do you use certain cues in CMC?
Yes. I use emoticons and certain smilies, if there are some.
I also use tags, especially in BB-Code to mark something as, lets say, sarcasm. This will look so: [sarcasm]...[/sarcasm]
I also use other markers, like setting something between stars to show that I am actually doing this, not saying. I also use normal formating styles, like italic, bold or underline, and I only write in capitals when I'M ANGRY AND WHANT TO SHOUT. OK - mostly
And I also use these shortcuts like mfg, cu, wtf, lol, omg, ...
Do you think your messages are clear?
The better part of them? Yes. (If anyone read this and think different pleas correct me.)
Do you follow certain norms?
Yeah. When I write e-mail I write it like a letter. Especially in the first time. When it starts to be a conversation I get rid of things like “Hi† or “CU†, because than I think it's not necessary to write this.
When I'm in a discussion board or a chat I write like I talk. I also want to make it easy to read, so I use paragraphs. Because I think without this free lines it's makes you tired when you read. Yeah, and I use the German Rechtschreibung, especially the Groß-und-Kleinschreibung. Well, it's nothing I do conscious, it just seems right to me.
Thomas Templ 0002079
Here a quick list of the good and bad sides as far as I remember. I didn't have the time to write it down in course - sorry.
Positive sides:
- It's easy to hide your identity
- CMC lacks emotional expressions
- no social boundaries
- It's easy to hide your identity and make a new one
- It feels private, but it's not
After that we discussed our collection with the whole class. I remember that I was really astonished as someone mentioned that she never think about the Internet was not private, even it feels so. OK, I am used to check my profile with Google and 123people every two or three month. I think it's necessary to know your profile, because that is what the others will know about you.
In the end our instructor asked us certain questions about our social behavior in the net. I now give you the questions and my answers.
Do you use certain cues in CMC?
Yes. I use emoticons and certain smilies, if there are some.
I also use tags, especially in BB-Code to mark something as, lets say, sarcasm. This will look so: [sarcasm]...[/sarcasm]
I also use other markers, like setting something between stars to show that I am actually doing this, not saying. I also use normal formating styles, like italic, bold or underline, and I only write in capitals when I'M ANGRY AND WHANT TO SHOUT. OK - mostly
And I also use these shortcuts like mfg, cu, wtf, lol, omg, ...Do you think your messages are clear?
The better part of them? Yes. (If anyone read this and think different pleas correct me.)
Do you follow certain norms?
Yeah. When I write e-mail I write it like a letter. Especially in the first time. When it starts to be a conversation I get rid of things like “Hi† or “CU†, because than I think it's not necessary to write this.
When I'm in a discussion board or a chat I write like I talk. I also want to make it easy to read, so I use paragraphs. Because I think without this free lines it's makes you tired when you read. Yeah, and I use the German Rechtschreibung, especially the Groß-und-Kleinschreibung. Well, it's nothing I do conscious, it just seems right to me.
Thomas Templ 0002079
