Computer Mediated Communication:

History and Research

 Developed alongside with the launch of the World Wide Web in 1990 and popularization of Internet

 IM
One-on-one synchronous type CMC 80% of Canadian teens and 74% of American teens had used IM programs *

Data and Methods

 Majority of the material of the IM data came from conversational histories that have been saved before even the study began Data collected through tapping into IM communication Mentees as co-researchers and participant observer Documentation of teens communicating with teens through IM