"Every Home Is Wired": 1 -- The Net in Relation to Music Subcultures

"Every Home Is Wired":
1 -- The Net in Relation to Music Subcultures

Early research is still valuable for pointing out the problems faced by newcomers to CMC, however. "It has become clear over the years as research has accumulated that CMC is not always as fixed and stark as early experiments indicated. Counterexamples abound -- primarily in field research where interaction time was not restrained" (Walther 8), and the limited time available for research informants to become familiar with the new medium was exactly what influenced the early results. Thus, new participants are obviously changed by their encounter with the new technology and its more long-term users;

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previously unfamiliar users become acquainted with others by forming simple impressions through textually conveyed information. Based on these impressions, they test their assumptions about others over time through knowledge-generating strategies, the results of which accumulate in refined interpersonal knowledge and stimulate changes in relational communication among CMC users. Rather than the fixed relational qualities imputed to CMC in previous theories, the social information processing model predicts normal but temporarily retarded interpersonal development. The key difference between these processes in CMC and FtF communication has to do not with the amount of social information exchanged but with the rate of social information exchange. (Walther 10)

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