Week 4 : CMC

For this week we learned about CMC. What is CMC? CMC stands for Computer Mediated Communication. 

There are two types of CMC:
A) Synchronous
B) Asynchronous 

Synchronous CMC is where the communication that happened between participants is synchronise. It means that the messages can be exchanged immediately. Meanwhile asynchronous CMC is not a synchronise communication. It means that the messages are not exchanged immediately. The easiest example would be emails. 

Basically CMC education started in the late 1980s and 1990s with the introduction of Communicative CALL. It widespread globally with the use of Email and Forums. It is created for long distance teaching or learning. 
These are the advantages of CMC:

A) No distance barrier

B) Mitigates time as a second barrier

C) Make collaborations much easier

Meanwhile these are the disadvantages of CMC:

A) Inhibitions related to the use of technology

B) Problems with access to technology

C) Lack of socio-emotional and nonverbal cues

D) Lack of real human contact

We use CMC to communicate and connect with the people all over the world. CMC is a form of communication or interaction that happen between two or more people by using separate computers with network connection. CMC is also known as a process of interaction that happen between people. By using CMC, people exchange, perceive information, culture, thought, ideas, history, knowledge with each other.

That is all for this week. Thank you for reading my post. See you soon, bye!