Day : Tuesday
Topic : Computer Mediated Communication
Assalamualaikum Wbt.
Dear our beloved reader, today is a very wonderful day, Alhamdulillah.. Allah still blessed us with strength so we can learn a new topic for today's class. It is CMC (Computer Mediated Communication). This term is very new to us, but, in a real world, we have been using this CMC since our primary school! ^^,
E-mail, Yahoo!Messenger, MSN, Facebook, Twitter, Bulletin Board, Forum, and many more applications that mainly used in the internet to converse with other people including social networking sites are the examples of CMC. Very familiar to us right? ;)
Well, there are actually two forms of CMC:
1) Synchronus - real time, instantaneous communication (just like Yahoo!Messenger or MSN or Skype)
2) Asynchronus - non-real time communication (like E-mail, Blog, or Bulletin Board)
It is indisputable that there are many differences in language styles between these two forms of CMC because one is rapid process (just like talking face to face! *but still have time to pause) and the other is delayed process (like when we write an e-mail, we can edit several times!). Many research had been done to investigate the features of language use in both forms of CMC.
Yes, we can chat, e-mail, use social networking sites but we must always beware of the negative consequences if the use of this technology is not properly utilized in the ethical manner. Islam always emphasized on the importance of being ethical in all aspects of our lives so we can avoid from the backsides that occur from the use of the Internet.
Lastly, let us share a word of wisdom for today's post:
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