communication

Co-Evolution of Technology, Media and Collective Action

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NMC Releases White Paper on the Evolution of Communication

The New Media Consortium announced today the release of Social Networking, the “Third Place,” and the Evolution of Communication, a white paper that discusses the premise that technology not only mediates interactions, but is actually changing the nature of communication itself.

This release marks the first in a series of topical papers associated with the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia (formerly the Series of Online Conferences), which are designed to explore emerging topics in education and technology using social computing technologies to bring people together online in a way that offers many of the same affordances of a face-to-face conference.

Social Networking, the "Third Place," and the Evolution of Communication

Social Networking, the "Third Place," and the Evolution of Communication

cover of publicationThis white paper is being released in a variety of forms as part of the NMC's New Scholarship Initiative.

Download the white paper in PDF (78k) -- but please also contribute to the paper and add to the conversation around it by commenting on it here. The paper is presented below in sections so that context-specific comments can be added or try the new CommentPress version that allows comments to be added to each paragraph. Please add your thoughts!

NMC Symposium on the Evolution of Communication

Symposium on the Evolution of Communication

December 4-5, 2007
NMC Conference Center in Second Life

NMC Conference Center

NMC Symposium on the Evolution of Communication

December 3, 2007 - December 5, 2007

The Symposium will explore the premise that technology has not only mediated communication in countless ways, but that the very ways we communicate—and even the ways we talk and think about communication—are changing as a result. It will be held at the NMC Conference Center in Second Life. Online registration opens Nov. 6.

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