"Every Home Is Wired": 1 -- Endnotes

If you followed a link from the thesis text, the yellow arrows will lead you back to the bite you came from.

7	This agrees with Kottak's prediction that advanced information technology (AIT) "will be used ... to facilitate communication among affinity groups -- relatives, friends, and people with common identities, experiences, or interests ... . Its main role, however, will be to establish and maintain links between physically dispersed people who have, and come to have, more in common" (14-5).
8	If access to the Internet is available to them at all, therefore, the Net is likely to prove an attraction especially to those people so far disadvantaged in their communication with others by delays in delivery and difficulties in accessing communications systems synchronously with their interaction partners: anyone anywhere with some time to devote to Internet interaction at whatever time of the day will (as long as they can articulate their thoughts coherently) be able to become a full participant in newsgroup discussions, for example.
9	Dery's claim about messages in electronic discussion groups -- that "like public bathroom graffiti, their authors are sometimes anonymous, often pseudonymous, and almost always strangers" (560) -- is instructive here: only relatively new participants in newsgroups will necessarily be strangers.
10	Hardly a new finding, this applies to any new communications technology -- any attempt at conversation requires a set of commonly shared ground rules and a basic knowledge of the other conversants. Whatever lack of cues there may be in CMC might slow the establishment of meaningful interaction, but need not prohibit it.

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