week of oct 1-7

3). Pick one concept from the assigned reading this week, not already discussed, that you found useful or interesting and discuss it.

The section of verbal and nonverbal cues in computer-mediated communication talks about the reduced opportunity for nonverbal communication, creates a loss of social cues. The reason I found this fitting is because it is exactly what we in this are doing. It states this reduced accessibility to social cues can lead to personal and more stereotyped impressions of other group members as presented by their gender, social class, race, ethnicity or other categories and can facilitate the development of more biased and less effective communication relationships within the group. I was just wondering how many of you made such stereotypes impressions just based on the profile pictures. I thought to myself as I chose my picture, did I want to put up one that was more like a facebook profile pciture or more of one that would look like i sell real estate. I decided to have fun with it because that is who I am. The text adds that most people can adapt to the absence of nonverbal vocal and facial cues in CMC. However they also add that communicators in CMC may require more time to develop the social-relational aspects of their communication but given enough time they are able to express develop relationships and engage in group decision making. This holds true to me because this is my fourth CMC class and in my last class we were placed in the group early and at first it was hard to communicate since most people took the class online to avoid going school, however we were able to develop a relationship as well just created facebook account as another way of communication for our assignment.