PURCOM CHAPTER 5 LESSON

• Online communication


  The new face-to-face communication
• Computer-mediated communication

  • Gives man greater freedom
  • Gives man heavier responsibility to survive in an online environment
• Online communication is easy

  But also posts issues on security, trust and privacy
• Screen names


  Frequently selected when participating in chat rooms, playing games, uploading videos, leaving online comments, selling items online
• Screen names


  • A person or user may establish multiple screen names and create multiple identities
  • Can be based on genuine perceived characteristics or uncharacteristic traits
• Social networks


  Platforms that enable users to take advantages of assuming identities apart from the physical truth or reality
• Types of screen names

  • Given Name
  • Auto-generated Name
  • Alternative Name
• Email address


  Consists of username, domain name, and top-level domain
• Username


  • Sometimes a person's screen name could be used
  • Comes before the "@" symbol
  • Depends on the type of platform being used
  • Must be different in informal and formal online communication
• Domain name


  • Comes after the "@" symbol
  • Reveals the service provider, profession or affiliations
• Top-level domain


  • Follows the dot (.) after the domain name
  • Reveals personal information and indication where the email address originated
• Online content creation and identity

  • The internet enables users to share and display their thoughts, interests, talents, and other characteristics of the self
  • Content creators are users who have developed or maintained a website, blog or shared creative work online
• Social networking sites


  • Allow users to connect with one another while establishing new connections and forming relationships with people from around the globe
  • Self-disclosure is a part of relational development, and the self is carried out through relational connections
• SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES

  • SUCH AS FACEBOOK, TWITTER, INSTAGRAM MAKE THE PEOPLE CONNECT TO EACH OTHER

  SELF DISCLOSURE

  • A PART OF RELATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
• Online communication is created in order for us to communicate easily with one another
• Sense of belongingness via online communication will never be a basis to seek some validation from other people
• Cellphones


  • Represent constant connection to those who possess your number
  • Giving or denying someone access to your cellphone number establishes both the boundaries and the degree of closeness desired and expected within the relationship
• Limiting the availability of contact with a person

  • Establishes specific relational boundaries
  • How that person views and evaluates such limits depends on your relationship
• Connecting with another person via cellphone


  Re-establishes the existence and importance of the relationship, confirming both parties its existence and value in their lives
• If you have your cellphone with you, you have your social network as well
• The impact of mediated communication on personal relationships is that it makes users connected with one another and it makes them establish new relationships with the persons they met online
• As a user, it is your utmost responsibility to use mediated communication wisely to maintain peace in order within the online community