This class was a great learning experience for me. I realized some of the things that i do in CMC that i didnt really notice as much before. For example i starting thinking about whether or not I am the same person in CMC that i am in FtF. And I think for the most part I am, but i also came to realize that most people may have some kind of different persona in CMC then they do in real life based upon who they are talking to.
I had a couple of "oh wow" moments in this class, like watching Buffy (which was an oh wow moment for a different reason, but the biggest one was when we went over all of the different types of expressions that are used in CMC such as ;) or other faces such as that.
Im not sure whether of not i changed the way i communicate online, but i am more conscience of it.
I learned that CMC is everywhere and it is growing. CMC is only going to get larger in the future. With technology becoming more advanced everyday, there is no way to tell what tomorrow is going to bring to CMC.
To be honest this class is pretty much what i thought it would be. I was exactly sure what to expect, but I did think that we would be dealing a lot with things such as IM, and how people communicate online.
Overall I really enjoyed this class and felt that it opened me up to thinking about how I personally communicate online.
