Abstract. Conventions and etiquettes evolve or are developed for technologically mediated modes of communication. The Internet is now over a decade old, and the use of its predecessor networks and multiuser computer systems for computer-mediated communication (CMC) dates back to the sixties. However, although the Internet is increasingly a feature of the global popular culture as a concept, and in the construction of its various associated images, its systematic use for CMC has only recently begun to extend beyond the sub-cultural. Although at its deeper social and psychological levels...
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