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>Computer Mediated Communication: Social Interaction and the Internet, by Crispin Thurlow, Laura Lengel, and Alice Tomic. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2004. vii + 256 pp. $39.95 (paper)
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Computer Mediated Communication: Social Interaction and the Internet, by Crispin Thurlow, Laura Lengel, and Alice Tomic. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2004. vii + 256 pp. $39.95 (paper)
By now, the subject of computer mediated communication has been taught within a broad range of academic fields for over a decade. Computer Mediated Communication: Social Interaction and the Internet is distinctive because it is situated squarely in the discipline of communication, and draws on the scholarship in the discipline that has emerged over the past ten years. One of the benefits that has developed form the maturation of the discipline, and of which this text takes full advantage, is that the sharp separation between the virtual world and the offline world that informed much of an earlier generation of computer mediated communication scholarship has been replaced with a much more nuanced understanding of the continuities and connections across the virtual and offline social worlds. The book does a very strong job of positioning computer mediated-communication within the discipline of communication. The book begins with a section on basic theory, drawing on interpersonal and group communication. The book then develops the central issues and fieldwork that are distinctive to computer mediated communication. The book concludes by integrating computer mediated communication within some of the major subdisciplines of communication, including political communication, organizational communication, and lifespan communication.
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