Computer-Mediated Communication

Instructor: Teresa Harrison (harrison@vm.its.rpi.edu)

With: John December (decemj@rpi.edu),
Emilie Gould, (goulde@rpi.edu),
Laura Gurak (gurakl@rpi.edu)

• Class Sessions, 4203 Russell Sage Laboratory
  • Course Introduction
  • Nature of the Medium
  • Contexts of CMC
  • Conference on CMC: Promises and Perils
• Practicum, Voorhees Computing Center, South Classroom
  • Practicum Overview
  • Lesson 1: Electronic Mail
  • Lesson 2: Mosaic--a Window into Cyberspace
  • Lesson 3: NIR Tools and CMC Forums
  • Lesson 4: Suriving in Cyberspace--How to be an Internaut
  • A Tour of the "Diversity University" Moo
  • Internet Web Text, a reference source for studying and using the Internet.