Magazine

Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine
ISSN 1076-027X / Volume 3, Number 9 / September 1, 1996

Editor's Page

This month, school is back in session for many educational institutions throughout the world. This issue focuses on computer-mediated communication and education.

SPECIAL FOCUS: CMC AND EDUCATION

Barriers to Getting Educators Online

Denise Ethier and Jennifer Gold explore the barriers educators face in attempting to use computer-mediated communication to both build and sustain online professional communities.

Scenarios for Computers in Composition

Maureen Burgess and Lori Mathis describe their experience and discuss the pedagogical implications of the World Wide Web for teachers and students in computer-supported writing classrooms.

Teaching International Reporting Through the Internet

Christopher Harper describes a course in international reporting he taught to journalism students using the Internet.

Computer-Mediated Communications Networks and the Organizational Life of Schools

H. L. Fuller discusses the structural changes in a school which has adopted computer-mediated communication networks. She points out that such an adoption represents repercussions in many dimensions of organization's life.

DEPARTMENTS

Book Review: Putting the Community into Community Networks

John Monberg reviews New Community Networks: Wired for Change, a book that both presents a powerful statement of how CMC can enhance democratic community, and serves as a manual for anyone working toward this goal.

Call for Papers: What Does it Mean to be a Netizen?

CMC Magazine will present a special issue next year about the idea of the Netizen--how the meaning of this word has changed and what role people should assume in building online communities.

Call for Entries: Courses and Programs related to CMC

Does your institution offer courses or programs related to the study of computer-mediated communication? If so, please register them on the programs and courses pages of the CMC Studies Center.

The Last Link: Taking a Writing for the Web Class? Don't Get Ripped Off!

John December warns against technological fixation of a rising tide of academic courses and programs in computer-mediated communication.

Letters to the editor always welcome: mailto:john@december.com