Thursday, September 13, 2007

Herring's CMC

I think that it's hard to say that men and women have a specific style of communicating. What this article fails to do is to state what the men and women are writing to. For example, if you are writing to a Honor organization you must use "netiquette" even if you are a man or a women to be accepted in that particular discourse community. If you are writing to find that special someone or just have fun then it is more likely (but still not absolutely so) that the men and women will respond the way that Harring states in her journal article. I believe that messages have their own rule on how they should be replied. Such sites as Facebook, AIM, Myspace, and True.com, have people talking more than showing when they are communicating, where as if you are writing a resume, or a letter to a professional being you are showing more than you are talking while you are communicating. I believe its hard to cite any particular area in this article because its too discrimitive based on the sex of the people. Communication is based on what the situation is not what the person is.

2 comments:

Sarah Mabe said...

I agree with you completely. I think that more information needs to be given as to the topic of the forum. I feel that with that information, it will be easier to understand why these people respond or communicate the way that they do.

mchalup said...

This is what i was trying to say in my post. I think that she needed to consider other options instead of just looking at males and females in a group. Everyone was has different views and personalities to be considered