CRS 181 Lecture 8: CRS 181-Lecture 8-23.docx

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Communication and Rhet Studies
• Course: CRS 181
• Professor: Gordon

Document Summary

Before critiquing new communication media, it is important to establish a baseline understanding of how they function. There are many ways of gathering this information. Description is situated within the cultural context of literacy and print culture . Studies reported primarily involve college students in the united states: baron uses both quantitative and qualitative methods, baron is attentive to the fact that generalizations are not absolutes. Fear and apprehension tend to be followed by acceptance, even eventual invisibility of the new technology. Domestication (silverston & haddon, 1996, as cited in baron, 2008, p. 3): this is the process of new devices becoming commonplace and everyday. Questions we will explore: how do our experiences with communication technology affect our behaviors, relationships, and social norms, how are new forms of communication media affecting our communication landscape (baron, p. 4, some issues, engaging/avoiding, creating/recycling, privacy/safety, writing, health/wellbeing. Netspeak: (crystal, 2001) the linguistic features characterizing the range of internet-based language (baron, p. 11)