Examine the question inside the discussion board and provide a response based on this week's readings and resources. You are encouraged to take a position on the issue and to support it with deductive reasoning, logic along and references to the textbook.
The Discussion Board grading rubric is available here, Your Thoughts! — Discussion Board Rubric, and on the Course Resources page.
Part 2 - Student Response
- Please respond to posts from at least two (2) different students.
Each post must be substantive: Do not simply agree with someone else's position but rather expand on, challenge, or question the perspective. Avoid simply restating what has already been written.
- All posts should demonstrate an understanding of the material, provide a critical analysis of the topic, and share new ideas on the issue to advance the conversation. Add depth to your responses with references to readings, terminology, and outside sources.
- Due: Sunday, 11:59pm (PT)
Length:100 words minimum each
Requirements:
Use the text as a resource (e.g. Wood, p 4).
- Just as in the classroom, posts should also be polite. You are free to disagree with each other, but do it politely :)
Overview
Spend some time thinking about how technology has forced our communication to evolve. We stay in touch over Facebook, we text our friends to see what they are doing later, we meet potential romantic partners through online dating sites, we cyber-bully (hopefully not), we take college courses without ever meeting our teachers, we email our bosses to find out the agenda for a teleconference, and we often don't answer the phone unless we know who is calling.
- This is all called Computer-Mediated Communication, or CMC.
- There is a debate among researchers about CMC. On one side, you could argue that it enhances our relationships. We talk more often through CMC and can stay in touch much easier. On the other side, it would seem that CMC hurts relationships, because messages seem to be shorter, and because you're missing all that non-verbal communication (e.g., body language, eye contact, expressions, etc).
Topic
Does CMC enhance human communication or detract from it? Weigh both sides in your response.
Instructions
Review the materials in Week One Readings and Week One Resources to generate ideas for consideration. To post to the discussion board, you must start a new thread at the bottom of the page and after your initial post respond to two classmates. Remember to substantiate your initial post with in-text citations and references (see example under announcements). It's very intuitive and simple.