As the term “computer” and the processes and effects of technologies in human communication broaden, there is a need to have an accounting of the computer-mediated communication (CMC) subdiscipline. After identifying some of the changes that have occurred in both devices and our theories of CMC, suggestions are offered for how to uniquely situate CMC in the future. Ultimately, this article calls for a realignment of CMC scholarship away from focusing on the technological devices and toward an increased focus on the process, role, and effects of mediation. A litmus test whereby future researchers, authors, reviewers, and editors can help assess whether a study is of CMC or simply uses CMC is offered, and in doing so this work provides a foundation to develop theory and scholarship germane to the context of mediated interaction for the future.

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CMC已死，万岁CMC !：超越数字时代的计算机媒介传播奖学金

随着术语“计算机”以及人类通信中技术的过程和影响不断扩大，需要对计算机介导通信（CMC）子学科进行评估。在确定了两种设备以及我们的CMC理论都发生了一些变化之后，提出了有关如何在将来独特地放置CMC的建议。最终，本文呼吁对CMC奖学金进行重新调整，使其不再侧重于技术手段，而应更加侧重于调解的过程，作用和效果。一块试金石，由此未来的研究者，作者，审稿人和编辑可以帮助评估研究是的CMC或者干脆使用 提供了CMC，因此，这项工作为在将来与媒介交互作用的上下文中发展理论和学术联系提供了基础。