COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION DEFINITION.

Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) is the process by which people create, exchange, and perceive information using networked telecommunications systems (or non-networked computers) that facilitate encoding, transmitting, and decoding messages. Studies of CMC can view this process from a variety of interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives by focusing on some combination of people, technology, processes, or effects. Some of these perspectives include the social, cognitive/psychological, linguistic, cultural, technical, or political aspects; and/or draw on fields such as human communication, rhetoric and composition, media studies, human-computer interaction, journalism, telecommunications, computer science, technical communication, or information studies.

Referrences:
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O12-computermediatedcommunctn.html
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/CMC.html

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY DEFINITION.

(ICT) The study of the technology used to handle information and aid communication. The phrase was coined by Stevenson in his 1997 report to the UK government and promoted by the new National Curriculum documents for the UK in 2000. In addition to the subjects included in Information Technology (IT), ICT emcompasses areas such as telephony, broadcast media and all types of audio and video processing and transmission.

(http://rubble.ultralab.anglia.ac.uk/stevenson/ICTUKIndex.html).
(2008-09-19)