Computer Mediated Communication Analysis

Electronic communication plays vast roles in the way individuals communicate in today’s society, this has created a significant change to the quality of interpersonal

Nowadays, the communications with others are different from the traditional ways and normal rules. People take advantage of new technology to communicate instead of face to face. Although the email and text message make people easy to communicate, the society

Mediated communication channels, especially ones that allow us to directly interact with others such as mobile phones and social networks, rely primarily on language to achieve shared meaning.”(Bevan, J. L., & Sole, K., 2014. Sec.4.4). We need to pay attention to how much computer mediated communication we use not only because it is the number one way to communicate with others who are close and far away from you but also we can tend to use it way to much and walk right into the wall, literally. “According to Online IT Degree (2011), 200 trillion (that's 200,000,000,000,000) text messages were received in America each day during 2011, which is more than the amount of regular ground mail items received in one year.”(Bevan, J. L., & Sole, K., 2014. Sec.4.4).That is a lot of messages and a lot of time using your phone, and not paying attention to your immediate surroundings. Also mediated communication uses very little nonverbal communication, so no emotions or gestures are there to help the reader understand how the person they are communicating with feels. On the other side by using this type of communication it can make the person reading it focus on what is actually being said rather than they body language being used.. There are good and bad things about text messaging and email, computer communication. I have had some bad experiences, and have vowed to use this type of

As this article state about the cons of using modern ways of communication and lacking of feelings, I feel that at some extend, I agree with author’s opinion. As Jim Taylor points out, “Kids want to be hugged and touched; they don’t want to be texted. There’s basic need to fill that social bond” (Johnson, Chandra), this explains the truth. We can not always express the feelings of sympathetic and empathetic through texting or phone call. This modern technology did change our lifestyle. In addition, people do use texting or other messaging applications to avoid complications talks instead of talking to another person face to face and also create a language barrier between them.

My MacBook was my essential medium used throughout the day. I used it to Skype my family in England because they were missing America and our oleaginous fast food. I then spent some time on Facebook and started synchronously messaging some of my other cousins that live in LA. What’s interesting was that I was surfing the web at the same time trying to find out who was going to win between Alvarez and Golovkin. Does that make the communication asynchronous? Relatively, but I didn’t respond later than a minute. I then snapped a story trying to get the attention from my fellow snappers on who would win between these pugilists. In regards to my conversations, I only had one phone call on WhatsApp from my girlfriend and it lasted a brief 5 min.

In her article “Type me How You Feel: Quasi-Nonverbal Cues in Computer-Mediated Communication,” Carter explores the implications associated with nonverbal perceptions in type written communication. In today’s age, interaction comes in many forms; as societies progress technologically, so does the exchange of language through text based messages also referred to as Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC). Non-verbal communication is interpersonal communication through visual, body gestures, and facial expressions. Carter highlights that CMC is limited in regards to nonverbal cues. Typewritten messages, compared to face-to-face interaction (FtF), create a lack of trust, remove spontaneity in interaction, generate ambiguity, and cause a time barrier between the individuals communicating. Although Carter pinpointed some key implications to the proliferation of CMC, she failed to identify the key advantages found in typewritten communication. Social Information Processing Theory (SIP), founded by Joseph Walther in 1992, offers an understanding of how people communicating through text develop their interpersonal relationships, given that the parties constantly communicate. By applying SIP to Carter’s points of analysis, Carter’s concerns with CMC are answered and a more clear understanding of the potential to create interpersonal relationships via CMC emerges, regardless of the limitations associated with the lack of non-verbal cues.

Using electronic mediated communication, such as text messages can be a great way to communicate. However, when beginning a relationship, face-to-face contact can be the most intimate way to get to know each other. When a person pours “their all” (everything about them including life events) in a text message, one cannot be taken serious. You have to find common ground. “For many people, texting is a major source of relationship communication. People age 17 to 25 tend to text their romantic interests more than older individuals do,” (Coyne, Stockdale, Busby, Iverson, & Grant, 2011). You have given him so much in a text message that he has not been given the opportunity to learn anything about you in verbal conversation. There is no way you

Two Key Points to be aware of in relations to computer mediated communication is to be professional and to use effective communication. These two key points be displayed when you are communicating through email, texting, video conference and social media. When using email, being sure to displays professional approach by making sure you use a subject that will inform the reader of the topic being discussed. With the body of the email use short paragraphs, professional language and limit the topics. Always use a signature and contact information. Always making sure you are using proper grammar to be sure the email is professional. Also, never use emotions when forming an email. When texting, be sure not to use acronyms, and only use for immediate

After taking some time to put out some proverbial fires with my sales manager and a few clients, I put my phone down and resumed my challenge of avoiding technology. Before doing so, I noticed that I had received several text messages throughout the day from friends and family. Reflecting upon the nature of the texts as I read through

When individuals engage in conversation through the Internet or text messaging they cut off the personal familiarity they would get from face to face communication with other people. People can form bonds with other individuals over the internet or through text messages, but those bonds do not have the same closeness and familiarity as bonds formed when people have face to face conversations. Also, it is impossible to read someones body language through the Internet and text messages. Being able to see and read someones body language is also a very important part of a conversation that is being taken away when people communicate through the internet and text messages. Because being able to see when a persons body language is showing whether they feel comfortable, upset, angry, or nervous will help you steer the conversation in the right way it needs to go to put them at ease; or show you that you are going in the right

Face-to-face communication seems to be a dying art – replaced by text messaging, e-mails, and social media. Human communication and interactions are shaped by available technologies.

Online platforms have drastically changed the way people interact with each other. There are a plethora of people at fingers reach, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. As a result of this convenience, there has been a drastic shift in the way people communicate. This has had a variety of both positive and negative effects.

Computer-mediated communication theory is defined as a type of human communication that occurs through the use of two or more electronic devices. Human-computer interaction involves the study, planning, design, and uses of communication between people and computers. The computer serves as the network for the communication between the two individuals. There is a source of information that is sent by the sender through the network, also known as the source of noise, to the receiver to reach its destination (“Human-Computer Interaction,” n.d.). System theory expresses that a system is a set of interacting parts enclosed in a boundary. This theory involves the open and closed systems. An open system is enclosed in a semipermeable boundary that

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place,” is a quote by Irish Playwright and Nobel Prize winner, George Bernard Shaw. His words could not ring truer today even though they were written a century ago. Technological devices have made the art of communication even more complicated as pointed out in the story “The Flight From Conversation” by Sherry Turkle (84). Ms. Turkle explains in her story how “we live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection” (84). Communication involves more than the hours per day that people spend sending texts and emails (Turkle, 84). The article “Effective Communication” describes effective communication as “more than just exchanging information”; it is more about “understanding the emotion and intent behind the information” and being able to “listen in a way that gains the meaning of what’s being said and makes the other person feel heard and understood” (Robinson, Segal, Smith). Ms. Turkle used the phrase “connecting

Technology is reshaping human communication in a fundamental way. On the surface, the restrictions on total character count imposed on modern means of communication like text messaging and microblogging encourage the condensation of lexical units and simplification of grammar (Lyddy et al., 2014; Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Gamon and Dumais, 2011). These changes toward quick and increasingly informal linguistic expressions then combine with the unique openness afforded by the internet to lead to complex patterns of sharing and withholding personal information, affecting individual wellbeing, interpersonal relationships and even societal and political landscapes (Bureke and Kraut, 2016; Utz and Beukeboom, 2011; Weeks et al., 2017). Due to the significant and multifaceted impact that computer-mediated communication (CMC) has on our society and daily lives, my intended area of emphasis within Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is CMC, which falls under the umbrella of social computing.