COMPUTED MEDIATED COMMUNICATION

 COMPUTED MEDIATED COMMUNICATION

Text-based, interactive communication processes involving computer usage. Examples are chat rooms, Instant Messenger, and ICQ (“I seek you”), programs that allow communication and reveal when other program users are online.

epistemic (cognitive) access

The possibility of rationally accessing an object, event, or a person's mental state to reach a complete understanding.

Internet protocol/transmission control protocol (IP/TCP)

Computer software technology that converts messages into streams of packets at the source then reassembles them back into messages at the destination. IP handles the addressing, seeing to it that packets are routed across multiple nodes and even across multiple networks with multiple standards (not only the early Advanced Research Projects Agency Network's pioneering standard, but also other standards, including Ethernet, Fiber-Distributed Data Interface, and X.25).

virtual community

A community of people sharing common interests, ideas, and feelings over the Internet or other collaborative networks. Internet virtual communities are social aggregations that emerge when enough people carry on public discussions long enough and with sufficient human feeling to form webs of personal relationships in cyberspace.

virtual identity

In the physical world, there is an inherent unity to the self, for the body provides a compelling and convenient definition of identity. The virtual world is different; it is composed of information rather than matter: a person can have, some claim, as many electronic personas as there is time and energy to create.

Nielsen, M. I. S. (2017). Computer-mediated communication and self-awareness – A selective review. Computers In Human Behavior, 76, 554-560. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/computer-mediated-communication