Friday 301

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

OOC: Unfortunately work is being a drag and I have lots to get done, so no real content today. Sorry gang. Feel free to talk amongst yourselves, stir up drama...get injured (I see we have a school doctor). Or maybe we have tentacles coming out of the back of the classroom. Who knows. Go wild.

Today we'll be talking about sender, message, and receiver
*fixes glasses and begins one big boring lecture*

Communication focuses on the messages exchanged between people and how those messages affect other aspects of their lives. In interpersonal communication, we further limit this to focus our research on how the messages people exchange affect the relationships between them" (Petronio, Alberts, Hecht, Buley 3). Most relationships are not strictly interpersonal or impersonal; they usually fall somewhere in between. Levels of intimacy, commitment, trust, honesty, disclosure, acceptance and emotional empathy vary and change within all relationships. A recent course in Fall 1997 taught by Schrader in Advanced Interpersonal Communication at Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis had students examine the developmental process of interpersonal relationships by focusing on those messages which lead to growth, maintenance, and termination of social encounters and how computer mediated communication (CMC) influences these messages.

Computers have revolutionized communication. As Michel observes, "computers and modems...have opened up new opportunities for communication between people normally separated by distance and social norms" (1). New areas of communication research are frequently emerging as a result of the adoption of innovative technologies. One field of communication research that is becoming increasingly important due to technological advances is that of CMC.

Chesebro and Bonsall suggest that "any form of human-computer interaction can be seen as a form of communication, varying in degree to which the computer or the user is in control" (qt. in Gibson et. al. 7). Bordia adds that CMC includes "any means of communication which is mediated by a computer" (2). Therefore, programming computers, using educational software, and playing computer games can be part of the communication process (Gibson et al., 7). CMC can include such innovations as electronic mail (email), computer-conferencing and the Internet (Walther 52).

There are numerous theoretical perspectives and methodological techniques available for examining interpersonal computer mediated dynamics. The Advanced Interpersonal Communication course framed its exploration by examining intercultural-interpersonal CMC. In other words, students were asked to conduct original research in the area of how a cultural difference such as gender, influences interpersonal computer mediated communication. It was assumed that students would learn more about the subject matter if they reconstructed their original research paper into a World Wide Web (WWW) site. The pedagogical assumption of praxis was the driving force behind facilitating student learning of the mechanical (e.g., learning html language) and social (e.g., rule structures) cybercultures they were studying.


ooc: text blatently stolen from http://www.mtsu.edu/~itconf/proceed98/sschrader.html if you want to read the rest of it.

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[2ls-in-oneill.livejournal.com]

*whispers to the person next to him* This class is a lot more fun when we actually do things.

[last-worde.livejournal.com]

"What did she just say?" William murmurs back.

[2ls-in-oneill.livejournal.com]

Something about people and... things. I think there was a word in ther somewhere. Maybe some colors. And a number or two...

[last-worde.livejournal.com]

"I think she mentioned something about computers." William taps his laptops. "I guess that's a sort of communication?"

(ooc: have to go to work now. shall try to respond sporadically. William and Jack talking amuses me.)

[2ls-in-oneill.livejournal.com]

It can also be used as a weapon. And a floatation device.

[OOC: I've got work in about an hour, pick this up later tonight? I think they'll get along good.]</small?

[2ls-in-oneill.livejournal.com]

It can also be used as a weapon. And a floatation device.

[OOC: I've got work in about an hour, pick this up later tonight? I think they'll get along good.]

[magitekboy.livejournal.com]

*blinks*

*starts doodling in his notepad, every now and then ripping out a page, crumpling it into a ball and making it levitate to the waste basket*

[miss-monochrome.livejournal.com]

::gets lost after the first sentence::

::looks at fema- er, mal-, er *person* next to her apparently making things float::

::whispers:: Wow! How are you doing that?!

[egyptianlove.livejournal.com]

Evelyn tried to pay attention to what Professor Cregg was saying, but some of it seemed so jumbled and confusing.

[last-worde.livejournal.com]

"I don't think it would float for very long," William says dubiously. "You could use it to start a fire, I suppose, if you smashed it."

(ooc: sounds good. look like they will, which is weird beyond reasoning. *g* see you)

[2ls-in-oneill.livejournal.com]

I never said it would make a good floatation device. They're surprisingly hard to set fire to, unless you spill coffee on them.

[OOC:I know, so weird huh?]

[absolutesnark]

*quitely sits in the back of the room, taking notes*

[http://users.livejournal.com/___lily_evans_/]

*glares at the two boys who have the nerve to whisper in class*

*takes notes as best she can, considering the fact that she has never heard of a computer/modem/etc.*

[egyptianlove.livejournal.com]

Evelyn looks over at Piper.

"Excuse me...do you have any idea what she's saying?"

[absolutesnark]

Um, sort of. I think she is saying that the way we communicate changes the way we perceive each other. Computers, for example, change the way we interact with each other.

At least I think that's what she's saying.

[lady-jessica-bg.livejournal.com]

*listens to the teacher with distaste, taking notes*

*thinks to herself, "How stupid. Haven't they heard of human computers? Machines are for the inferior and those who would depend on the non-human."*

[egyptianlove.livejournal.com]

Evelyn still looked confused.

"First week of classes and I'm already lost."

[last-worde.livejournal.com]

"They've got all those wires and stuff, though. We don't have many things that run on wires, back on the Disc, but from what I've seen here, things with wires tend to spark."

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Don't worry - you're not the only one.

I'm Veronica, by the way.

[kimberly-shaw.livejournal.com]

*studiously takes notes*

[2ls-in-oneill.livejournal.com]

The disc? Probably don't wanna ask do I? And sparing is very different from fire. Ing. One makes pretty lights and the other roasts flesh and mkes it slide off the bone.

[magitekboy.livejournal.com]

*grins, pleased for the attention*

*whispers* Easy. Like this. *points at a pencil on Chiana's desk and says 'Float!'*

*the pencil slowly rises into the air and then floats onto Kefka's open palm*

You'd have to have magicite in your bloodstream, of course. But no one has magic infused into them yet, except me. I'm a prototype. *looks almost ridiculously proud of himself*

[miss-monochrome.livejournal.com]

::laughs in surprise as the pencil floats by her, then looks up quickly to make sure the prof didn't hear her::

That...that's gotta be one of the draddest things I've seen in a long while. ::smiles::

[magitekboy.livejournal.com]

*the pencil floats back to Chiana and drops on top of her notebook*

Why, thank you. It's so nice to finally meet someone who appreciates my abilities. *smiles brilliantly - and fails to mention that the last demonstration of said abilitites ended up in a lot of smoke and singed hair*

[last-worde.livejournal.com]

"The Discworld. It's where I come from." William eyes him uncertainly. "Anyway you could use the sparks to start a fire. If you had tinder."

[2ls-in-oneill.livejournal.com]

Oh Discworld, I was thinking something else. And while you could start a fire with sparks it probably wouldn't be a really good one. Good as in big and badly burning. Not good like cures cancers and gives puppies or babies or anything.

[last-worde.livejournal.com]

William wrinkles his forehead, but doesn't say that he's not sure babies are a good thing. "Why wouldn't it be a good fire?"

[2ls-in-oneill.livejournal.com]

For a real good fire you need a lot of grease, because most people see a fire and immediatly throw water on it. But you know what happens when you throw water on a grease fire? It gets bigger.

[last-worde.livejournal.com]

"That's probably why the Alchemists Guild burns so brightly," William says reflectively. "We can see it from across the river."

[2ls-in-oneill.livejournal.com]

Alchemists Guild?

[i-love-manolos.livejournal.com]

Hi. Professor Cregg? I was wondering if you still had an opening in the class . . .

[last-worde.livejournal.com]

"They keep trying to find the Philosopher's Stone, but they only end up blowing the building to pieces. Sometimes it's really colourful."

[2ls-in-oneill.livejournal.com]

Heh, sounds cool. What do you guys do for entertainment over on Discworld?

[http://users.livejournal.com/sydney_bristow_/]

*takes notes and pays close attention*