Monthly Archives: February 2010
Legends on the Net: An Examination of Computer-Mediated Communication as a Locus of Oral Culture
Fernback, Jan. “Legends on the Net: An Examination of Computer-Mediated Communication as a Locus of Oral Culture.” New Media & Society 5 1 (2003): 29-45. “The potential of the internet as an(sic) medium of orality is worth of scholarly reflection.” (pg. 30.). This statement is unquestionably accurate. However, real-time textual chat modes–a medium the author…
Reproduced and Emergent Genres of Communication on the World Wide Web
Crowston, Kevin, and Marie Williams. “Reproduced and Emergent Genres of Communication on the World Wide Web.” Information Society 16 3 (2000): 201-15. Given its attention to the definition and consideration of the communication genre, I am drawing on this article to help support my suggestion of the Online Video Conversation (OVC) as a new communication…