This site was created as a resource site to support the book Computer-Mediated Communication: Human to Human Communication Across the Internet by Susan B. Barnes, which covers the following four major topics: Overview of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC), Interacting through CMC, CMC and Group Communication, and CMC and Society. As a resource, you can directly connect to links in the book from this site. Additionally, this site will provide updates and lists of current articles and books relating to the four themes above.

Internet communication has introduced profound social changes because it alters the ways in which people communicate with each other. Today, people use the Internet to seek health information, find new jobs, do online stock trading, and download music. Beyond information seeking , people build and maintain social relationships through the Internet. E-mail allows parents to keep in-touch with their children away at college. Students socialize on the Internet by exchanging instant messages with their friends, playing online games, and talking to people in chat rooms. On a larger level, the Internet could help citizens build a new society because it bring people together into a global village.

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