QUESTIONS TO SHARPEN YOUR FOCUS

1			SIP proposes that CMC conveys relational information just as well as face-to-face communication, with only one difference. What is the difference?
2			E-mail is a text-based, asynchronous message system. What other media fit that description? What is one text-based, digital dyadic message system that requires simultaneous participation?
3			The hyperpersonal perspective suggests that CMC effects of sender, receiver, channel, and feedback promote general intimacy. Which factor do you think has the greatest relational impact? Which has the least?
4			Your online partner seems wonderful. However, because it's possible to create a fictitious persona through CMC, you want to make sure that he or she is "for real." Short of migrating off-line to meet face-to-face, how would you find out?