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ing or maintaining social relationships (1998:2000. They found that each day 91 per cent ofAlthough organizations are far from the only con-text for CMC use, early organizational research codi- Empirically, the laboratory evidence for differ-the coldness of the medium with extra efforts tosalutations, degree of formality of language, para-language, communication styles and message head-found that socioemotional content (defined as show-ing solidarity, tension relief, agreement, antagon-30 per cent of messages. Only 0.4percent of thecontent was negative, and 18 per cent showed soli-(1992) concluded that there was no comparative evi-INTERPERSONALLIFE ONLINE cues-filtered-out research cannot simply be dis-the challenge now is to explain the roles that mediaissues, with the participants, and with the elec-THE CHANGING SOCIALLANDSCAPE able to respond. Messages areoften open to reformulation.INTERPERSONALLIFE ONLINE SSUESINother cues into a communicative asset. Com-Since language is so often the only form of com-social life has received as much attention as iden-tity, in both (often conflated) senses of personalTHE CHANGING SOCIALLANDSCAPE lines of embodied/authenticity/reality. In a pres-potential for identity play. The users he inter-viewed took this to be one of the mediums pri-from our bodies, from time and from space, theof identity that is taken to characterize contempo-varied degrees of relation to the embodied self.theoretical agenda, conceptualizes anonymity asprivileged spaces for thinking through and work-pate in any kind of online discussion groups, and ae-mail and the 45 per cent who use instant mes-an isolated social phenomenonƒThey usuallyINTERPERSONALLIFE ONLINE anonymity is used in varying ways in different con-various forms of self-disclosure. It is too often for-and building online selves that are richly contextual-offer new possibilities for developing and sustain-the formation of new relationships, with particularattention to friendship and, to a lesser extent,Spears (1995) argued that theories of personal rela-tionships are biased toward face-to-face communi-that cross boundaries, dont lead to marriage or areout that perspectives on CMC that focus on disem-through CMC, people do, and do so often and fairlyTHE CHANGING SOCIALLANDSCAPE online Americans, and that siblings who haveresearch, as we have seen, begins with theINTERPERSONALLIFE ONLINE others, and examines the effect of computer medi-focusing on issues of community. The term com-online group, especially when the term is advan-tageous for site developers. This implies that anygroups, online groups vary widely. Though com-a continuum to which sequences of messages relateto each other. 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