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Monday, April 12, 2004
Con-text? - Mia Lobel, Michael Neubauer, Randy Swedburg, DEOSNEWS Volume 13 Issue 3 March 2004
Abstract This paper offers the analogy of pioneering, as it briefly presents the two prevailing theories about interpersonal communication and identifies respective advocates as Channel Theorists and Process Theorists. The role of self-awareness and trust formation in the online communication process is briefly discussed. It is hypothesized that an examination of Internet interactions from a process perspective will reveal that individuals encode and decode non-verbal forms of communication both consciously and unconsciously, and develop prosthetics within the medium that enhance and complete the ways they communicate and verify meaning. An example, containing mostly graphics generated during a synchronous online university course, is offered to illustrate this position. It is further suggested that interpersonal communication online is much more work than the unconscious coding/decoding that occurs face2face, and this may simply be a function of its neoteric nature. GenY is cited as the population which was born vs. immigrated onto the Internet, and it is proposed that their online interpersonal communication experience will supply the self-awareness, the data and the language needed to modify existing interpersonal communication theories to fit the nature of the new land.
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