Key quotes

1/ ‘Online communication via discussion forums and synchronous text can offer an increased sense of community and cohesion for students in online education. Online education environments and the communication that supports them encourage and support inquiry, team projects, and problem-solving skills.’
(from a website :http://www.lts.rmit.edu.au/renewal/onlcomm/why.htm)


2/ ‘The researchers found that participants who had been assigned to the ‘deception’ condition were more likely than truth-tellers to choose avatars that looked different from themselves.’
(from a website: http://deception.crimepsychblog.com/?p=242)

3/ ‘IRC is a network of computers, referred to as IRC servers, which allows thousands of people around the world to have simultaneous contact with one another.’
(from a book called Person to Person on the Internet by Diane Reiner and Keith Blanton, AP Professional, 1997, p.64)

4/ ‘Oulu, a quiet university town on the Gulf of Bothnia in Finland, was the unlikely birthplace of what is now a computer network serving thirty nations and tens of thousands of users.’
(from a book called The IRC Survival Guide—Talk to the World with Internet Relay Chat by Stuart Harris, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1995, p.4)

5/ ‘Canadian weblog expert Peter Scott has developed a widely accepted definition of a ‘blog’or‘weblog’: it is, he says, ‘a Web page containing brief, chronologically arranged items of information’.
(from a book called Weblogs and Libraries by Laurel A. Clyde, Chandos Publishing, 2004, p. 2)