Reflection 9: Computer Mediated Communication (CMC)

Computer-mediated communication has changed the way people keep in touch and begin new relationships.What we can see nowadays, Computer-mediated communication takes place in work relationships, family relationships, romantic relationships and friendships. There are some concerns with computer-mediated conversations, including concerns about dwindling interpersonal communication skills. However, there are also advantages to communicating via computer equipment such as personal computers, handheld devices, and phones.

Computer mediated communication can help the teachers and students to communicate easily with the internet and other application. It can make the learning process ongoing although it is during mid- semester break with various types of communication medium such as email, forum and others. It can also encourage and motivate the students to learn language. Hence, CMC wider the scope of learning and teaching beyond the classroom.

With Computer mediated communication, it is also much easier to maintain closer long-distance relationships. We should thank to computer-mediated communication because of video calling, long-distance friends, family can talk to one another regularly, helping maintain a close connection. They are able to see and send those nonverbal cues that are lost in a letter. Computer-mediated communication helps preserve long-distance relationships that in the past would have failed out and died.